February/March News

March 1st, 2009 in News
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Ragazzi - Seven Deadly Pieces review

(review only in German)
   

Seven Deadly Pieces DVD available to order here:
(links to more distributors coming soon)
   

   

   

  • Studio booked in March
In March we will go into the studio to record the drums for my next CD - Weaveworld. Mikael “Walle” Wahlgren will pound the skins and Jonas Reingold will be engineering.
   

  • Other news:
   

Karmakanic’s “Who’s the Boss In The Factory”  continues to receive great reviews from all over the world. Karmakanic had a one page feature in the Sweden Rock Magazine as well as in other international magazines.
   

Dutch prog magazine IO-pages had Jonas Reingold on the cover and a cover story of several pages with Jonas and Karmakanic. Some tour-dates coming up this fall.
   

  • Guest appearance with Ruud Cornelissen
Check out my great friend Ruud Cornelissen’s new album.
Last time I was in Holland I improvised a little ballad for his album. www.myspace.com/trickymix

January Interview with Ragazzi-Music

February 18th, 2009 in News
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Ragazzi interview:

http://www.ragazzi-music.de/lallelarsson09.html

Lalle Larsson 220 minute DVD out now!

November 7th, 2008 in News
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The Seven Deadly Pieces DVD is out now!    

The DVD has finally arrived and we are very happy with it all!
The whole package looks amazing! Special thanks to Jakob Tuchten for the artwork, Per Christoffersson & Johan Larsson for the editing and cutting.
And Andreas Ejnarsson for the sound. It’s been quite a journey.
 
Thank you for all the hard work and for making this 220 min DVD a reality!
For those of you who have already ordered: 
The DVD’s have already been posted to the pre-orders. It will soon be available to buy via the internet distributors and internet-stores.In the meantime you can still order the bonus package directly from LalleLarsson.com here:
http://www.liquidnoterecords.co.uk/orders-sevendeadlypieces.html

If you are working for a magazine or fanzine, please write to contact@lallelarsson.com for interviews and reviews.Again, thanks to all the fans from all over the world who gave us support throughout this project, you are the coolest! 

Peace,
LL

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För er som bor i Sverige och inte kan eller vill betala via Paypal. Skicka ett mejl till contact@lallelarsson.com     Så fixar vi det på annat sätt. DVD’n kostar 300 kronor plus frakt och paketkostnad.       

MVH        

   

LL      

 

Lalle Larsson’s Seven Deadly Pieces DVD:

October 8th, 2008 in News
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The disc will have nearly 4 hours worth of material and will be value for money. The DVD will be presented in an exclusive digipack with a slipcase and a 28 page booklet with beautiful artwork by artist Jacob Tuchten and poetry by Nicolas Moulard.

PAL ALL REGIONS
Total running time: Approximately 220 min
Subtitles: English
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DVD
 
MAIN FEATURES * Seven Deadly Pieces - A concert for chamber orchestra and electric guitars. (50 min) A concert in seven movements, for chamber orchestra and electric guitars, based on the seven deadly sins. Recorded and premiered at The Henry Dunker Culture Center in Helsingborg, Sweden October 6, 2002 with help from members of the metal band Darkane. Directed by Lalle Larsson, Johan Larsson and Per Christoffersson, this magical live event is presented as seven differently themed videos reflecting the traits of each sin. Trailer

* Lalle Larsson - A Portrait:A special in-depth 50 min documentary Lalle Larsson: A Portrait, about Lalle and his music.

Featuring:- Interviews with Lalle Larsson, Todd Duane (E-250), Peter Wildoer (E-250, Darkane), composer/guitarist Phi Yaan-Zek, Matt Williams (Liquid Note Records), guitarist Richard Hallebeek, drummer Sebastiaan Cornelissen, marimba soloist Thomas Widlund, Christofer Malmström (Darkane) and Jonas Reingold (Flower Kings, Karmakanic). - Live clips taken throughout Larsson’s 15+ year recording career from Ominox, Marimba Flesheaters, and RHP, to exclusive concert footage with Karmakanic in Europe and at the Philadelphia ROSFEST
- A fifteen minute feature on the writing and performance of the groundbreaking Seven Deadly Pieces concert.

Trailer

EXTRA MATERIAL
* Biography
* Discography
* Stills Gallery
* Artwork
* Trailer
* Piano solos close ups
* Stefan Rosqvist: The disappearing guitar solo
* Audio Commentaries in both Swedish and English
(featuring Lalle Larsson, Peter Wildoer, Stefan Rosqvist, Christofer Malmström, Johan Larsson.)

BONUS MATERIAL
   Piano & marimba music live:
* Puppets
* Electric Lobster Marimba Sandwich
* Marimba Flesheaters

   40 minutes of old Ominox footage filmed with a home video camera.
* Ominox - 1993
* Ominox - 1994
* Karmakanic live solos taken from tours in Europe and USA (20 minutes)
 

Plus a few extra surprises!
 

 

Lalle Larsson’s WeaveWorld

April 3rd, 2007 in News
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Lalle Larsson’s Weaveworld Premier!

Finally the time is right for putting together my own quartet playing all original music.

This music is very personal and emotional to me and it is almost like a diary of my life. After years of experimenting with different sounds,scales and chord clusters I feel that I have landed and found my expression in this new material.

The premier of the Weaveworld band will take place in my hometown on the 4th of April at Jazzklubben in Helsingborg, Sweden. You are welcome!
/Lalle

The Weaveworld band is:
Mickael Wahlgren - Drums & Perc
Jan Karlsson - Acoustic bass
Andreas Pålsson - Vibraphone 

The band on Wednesday will be:

Mickael Wahlgren
Jan Karlsson
Special guest: Stefan Rosqvist - Acoustic guitar
For more info check: Jazzklubben

 

New videos uploaded!

August 20th, 2006 in News
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Check out some new videos at http://www.myspace.com/lallelarsson

A longer trailer (07:46) of the upcoming Seven Deadly Pieces DVD is posted as well as “Electric Lobster…” a live performance with Thomas Widlund. You can also check out a piano solo from the first Gothenburg gig with Karmakanic.

For more videos check out youtube.com

Karmakanic, U.S.A and DVD…

June 3rd, 2006 in News
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Finally I’m back with an update.

First of all I’d like to thank everyone at RosFest for the great hospitality and support. I think that I can speak for the whole band when I say that Karmakanic had a great time in The US.

And, what an audience!! Giving us a standing ovation in the middle of the set was overwhelming, and I know that Göran was touched by you guys singing “Happy Birthday” to him in the beginning of the show. Later that evening there was a jam session at the Sheraton Hotel and I joined Jonas and Krister on stage for a jazz jam.We played a weird rendition of “On Green Dolphin Street” as well as a minor blues. That weekend, after signing cd’s and hanging out,we had the chance to check out Philadelphia. It was also great to get the chance to hang out with my new buddies Sir Millard Mulch, Ray and Noreen.Thanks everyone for making us feel at home, and thanks for being great people as well as fans of great music!
Check out the photo Gallery if you want to check out some pictures from the trip and stay tuned for a new Karmakanic album this fall.

I would also like to thank the people who came to the screening of the upcoming “Seven Deadly Pieces” DVD at Dunkers Kulturhus over here in Sweden.It was fun to see the reaction of the audience, even though it was a small crowd.The people I talked to seemed touched by the emotional impact of the piece and the strong footage (war victims, starvation etc…) used in the Epilogue.We will finish the documentary and the audio commentary this summer.

I am looking forward to an official DVD release, hopefully in a not too distant future. A seven minute long trailer of the DVD will soon be posted.www.lalelarson.com www.lalelarson.com www.lalelarson.com www.lalelarson.com www.lalelarson.com
Thanks for your support,
Peace,
Lalle Larsson

Sebastiaan Cornelissen, Frans Vollink, Randy Brecker

December 11th, 2005 in News
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One Spirit; brand new studio album produced by Frans Vollink & Sebastiaan Cornelissen, is now available. It features Randy Brecker, Gerard Presencer, Richard Hallebeek, Rob van Bavel, Martin Verdonk, Susan Weinert and myself. I’m playing the keys on two tracks. http://www.fransvollink.nl/buycd.htm

Interview in the latest issue of Dutch progressive magazine IO Pages

November 3rd, 2005 in News
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I am featured with a two page interview and a discography in the latest issue of the Dutch progressive music magazine IO pages.

The interview for the magazine was edited to fit two pages.
You can now read the full interview in english here>> only at Lalelarson.com

Also check out this new interview for french netmagazine Soilchronicles
http://www.soilchronicles.wb.st Click on “interviews” and then “Lale Larson”
Scroll down for the english translation.

Legendary swedish magazine “OrkesterJournalen” (OJ) gave the solo piano CD “State Of Mind” a great review in their No 9 issue.
“Larson has a distinct touch, plays as clear as glass and very melodic”
“Larson - a skillful soloist”

Lale Larson on the latest Owe Thörnqvist CD!

November 3rd, 2005 in News
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The non-Swedish readers probably don’t know anything about Owe. But for everyone in Sweden he’s an institution in the entertainment business. Owe has been around since the early ’50s, writing many of the most well-known and most recorded songs the last four and a half decades.

This album is straight blues-rock with some interesting musicians doing the comping. I play all the piano and hammond organ parts on his latest release “Recovered”. Among the other musicians we have: Benny Jansson (XSavior), Anders Johansson (Malmsteen, Hammerfall), Per Stadin (Silver Mountain) and guests such as: John Holm, Svante Thuresson, Jalle Lorensson and Peps Persson. Buy CD here>> http://www.owethornqvist.com/

Bass and Drum days in Stockholm

November 3rd, 2005 in News
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Hello everyone,

The Bass n Drum festival in Stockholm was a great event. It was a pleasure to play with Jonas Reingold and Marcus Liliequist and it was a blast to hang out and meet all the other great musicians there. I heard that the whole event will be released on a double DVD sometime next year, so stay tuned.

Thanks again to all of you who attended the festival and all the great people working behind this great event.
Check out some pictures and read more about it here (PDF file):
www.ebs.bass.se/pdf/EBSBnD05.pdf

Stockholm Bass´n drum days 2005

September 6th, 2005 in News
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On Friday the 30/9 I will perform with featured bassist Jonas Reingold and drummer Marcus Liliequist at Club New Life in Stockholm. We will play some of Jonas material and some of mine.
This will be a great weekend in Stockholm and this years edition of the Bass´n drum days has a great line up with musicians such as Ian Paice, Virgil Donati, Jonas Hellborg, Marcel Jacob, Mats/Morgan Band and others. Hope to see you there!! Check out http://www.bassndrum.se/ for more info on tickets etc.

Solo Piano At Dunkers Kulturhus

August 16th, 2005 in News
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I will perform my own compositions and improvise my own versions of popular songs at Dunkers, Helsingborg, Sweden on the 1st of September. On this concert cellist Pia Enbom will also play Bach and percussionist Daniel Kåse will play a piece by Per Nörgård. All three of us have received the Helsingborg culture award at one time, and that’s the theme of the concert. The concert will be presented by Per Nyren The concert starts at 19:30. Free entrance on behalf of the City of Helsingborg.