The Seven Deadly Pieces

May 17th, 2005 in Projects/Groups

A concert in seven movements, for chamber orchestra and thrash metal band.

This piece shows, maybe more than any other piece I’ve written, my eclectic musical background. My early influences from classical music, european avant garde, heavy metal and jazz is very evident in this music I think.

The twelve tone influence from Schönberg and the polyrhytmic influence from Conlon Nancarrow and Zappa. The angular sound of Eric Dolphy and the dark melancholy of Gorecki. I also hear the influence of Miles Davis and the Metal rhythms of Meshuggah and Darkane in the piece.

I started writing “The Seven Deadly Pieces” in 1996. The idea was to write something over a theme, and what could describe our world today better than the seven different emotions: Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath and Sloth, also known as the seven deadly sins.
I decided to write a concert in seven movements with different instrumentations for the different “sins”.

When I started writing I wasn’t sure what instruments to use but I knew that it wouldn’t be a traditional setting. The piece evolved around piano and percussion and the more I composed the more things started to take form. In the end I ended up writing the whole piece for a chamber orchestra and thrash metal band.

In 1997 I did a recording of this which I paid for myself. Peter Wildoer and Christofer Malmström from Darkane played all the metal parts.
The orchestral parts were recorded and overdubbed by local musicians from the different orchestras. Due to financial limitations I had to compromise and unfortunately leave out a lot of the arrangements that I had originally planned. The recording became a huge disappointment and I had invested a lot of money into something that I wouldn’t want to release. But it was an OK pre-production of the music if I ever needed to present the idea for a concert arranger. For several years I worked on other things and “The Seven Deadly Pieces” was put on hold, and I didn’t have the energy to go into all that again.

Five years later music producer Per Nyren got hold of the recording via guitarist Christofer Malmström and he became interested in the music.
Per called me and asked if it would be possible to perform all this live. I said yes without knowing how much work it would be on my part.
When Per Nyren and the Henry Dunker Culture Center asked me in 2002 if I wanted to premier and perform the piece in their concert hall I decided once and for all to rearrange and finish what I had started. I added certain things in the score and for instance utilized the string quartet a lot more. I ended up with over 200 pages of music and about 50 minutes of music.

I learned that putting together rehearsals for 14 people and making sure that everyone got their parts in the score is not an easy task.
I think I ended up with 500 pages of copies that I had to send out to everyone. It was also a bit brave from my part to decide to play all the piano parts myself as well as conducting, organizing and making sure all the parts and tempos were OK. We only had one concert booked since it was too expensive to get this circus on the road. I also decided to record the whole thing and video the concert in four different camera angles. The idea was to do a DVD of the concert in the future. We only had one chance to get this right. The concert date got closer and closer and I didn’t eat or sleep much during this time. I lost a lot of weight and I got a bad back ache. During an interview I couldn’t even get out of the chair because my back hurt so much. In the end the concert went well and about 300 people showed up that evening. Never before had the Culture Center seen such a mixed audience, young and old, classical and metal, cheering and giving us a standing ovation. The concert was recorded and videoed and is being edited for a DVD together with a documentary about me and my music made by Johan Larsson and Per Christoffersson.

Sju Dödliga Stycken (The Seven Deadly Pieces)

S.a.l.i.g.i.a.
Konsert i sju satser, för kammarorkester och thrash metal band, baserad på de sju dödssynderna.
(Concert in seven movements, for chamber orchestra and thrash metal band.)

Prologue

Superbia (Högmod) Pride
Avaritia (Girighet) Greed
Luxuria (Otukt) Lust
Invidia (Avund) Envy
Gula (Frosseri) Gluttony
Ira (Vrede) Wrath
Acedia (Lättja) Sloth

Epilogue

Musicians

Lalle Larsson (piano & keyboard)
Niklas Fredin (trumpet & flugelhorn)
Jan Karlsson (electric bass & Acoustic bass)
Christofer Malmström (electric guitar)
Stefan Rosqvist (electric guitar)
Peter Wildoer (drums)
Johan Bridger (marimba & vibraphone)
Thomas Widlund (marimba & vibraphone)
Daniel Pålsson (percussion)
Jonas Holmberg (percussion)
Paul Slawic (violin 1)
Kristina Gustavsson (violin 2)
AnnaKarin Holm (viola)
Marit Sjödin (cello)
Malin Pettersson (flute)

Recording engineers

Andreas Ejnarsson
Christian Odeholm

Mixing/sound dubbing

Andreas Ejnarsson

Video shoot

Per Kristoffersson
Johan Larsson

Producer

Lalle Larsson

A very special thanks to

All the musicians, Music producer Per Nyren, The Henry Dunker Culture Center, Kulturnämnden in Helsingborg, Mega Music School, Darkane, Andreas Ejnarsson, Per Christoffersson, Johan Larsson, Thomas Widlund, Eva Ebbekke Larsson and last but not least the fantastic audience who all made this an evening to remember.

Comments (113)

Richie Teh - June 16th, 2005 11:06

Is the DVD available for purchase? if so, where can I buy one?

Lale Larson - June 16th, 2005 20:06

The idea is to finish the DVD this summer. We are still in the middle of cutting the videos of the concert. It’s also a question of economy when and who will release it.I would like to thank everyone for their interest in this project. As you can understand it’s hard to finance such a thing, noone seems willing to take a chance on contemporary music. Stay tuned for more info about this project later this year. Best Regards / LL

Victor Valencia - June 21st, 2005 21:06

Great Idea i love metal mixed with classic sound, it’s like a liberation, a scream of freedom, witty but emotional , i bet this is the future of contemporary (academic) music, if you rebember almost every composer in the past took a part of popular music within their work, now there’s snobish aproach and many people gets scared if bold musicians mix this kind of things.

Good luck and please tell me when the dvd will be relaesed to the market.

Sorry for my english

Lale Larson - June 23rd, 2005 20:06

Hello Victor,

Yeah, I’m surprised that the contemporary composers haven’t used electric guitars more, since it is very much a sound of our time. Composers throughout history have always been reflecting on the things around them. Today we have microwave ovens,cell phones, computers, extreme underground music genres etc,therefor the music of today won’t sound like it did in the 60’s. But I guess it’s the same old story, there are probably a lot of deep,absorbing and open composers out there, but noone wants to put money into them so their music will never be heard. Sad but true…

Best regards, and have a great summer.
Lale Larson

Jesper Nielsen - July 18th, 2005 18:07

Alltså det här var det mest intressanta jag hört om på länge. Jag är idag väldigt besviken på att jag ej var på spelningen (jag blev erbjuden att gå dit). Varför kan man fråga sig, varför gick jag inte dit?

Dessa stycken är utav de mest genialiska i modern tid, skulle jag säga. Jag tycker mycket påminner om Daniel Schnyder och The Mahavishnu Orchestra, samt Sjostakovitj och Stravinsky ifall de hade satsat på metal. Magnifikt.

PineTree - August 26th, 2005 21:08

I’m really looking forward to “The Seven Deadly Pieces” DVD, I’ve listened to the preview recently and I was really amazed, since I developed an interest for modern classic music and jazz in the last couple of years (I’m a great fan of the band Darkane too). I hope you will be able to release this interesting piece of music soon…

juan pablo - September 9th, 2005 04:09

wow it seems pretty cool, yeah……
its like something “be” (pain of salvation)??

sebastian - October 19th, 2005 15:10

hej lalle det är sebbe! tks son jag tycker om din music så mycket!!!!jag har musik i skolan och jag skriver om dig!
det var bara det jag ville seja så ha det så kul med jazz livet
helsningar sebastian ljung!”

Anders Lundberg - November 10th, 2005 00:11

Otroligt spännande musik. Bättre än din cartoonmusik tycker jag. Fascinerande att du klarade av att genomdriva projektet.

Anders Lundberg, Helsingborg

Pada. San Sebastian/Donostia - May 16th, 2006 21:05

Min lilla söta persika..från..

Du håller stilen L…-E… du kommer alltid att vara min idol!!
Jag har lyssnat på dina verk och jag extremt imponerad, keep it up!

Erik Wiss - September 21st, 2006 20:09

Tjena, sitter här utanför och tittar på eran clinic på musicfactory, måste säga att jag är grymt imponerad av din teknik! Men det var nog ingen nyhet. Hursomhelst är jag intresserad av att köpa skivor med dig, läste något om the seven deadly pieces, låter ju riktigt intressant! Var kan jag köpa musiken till detta? förresten, har du gjort dina leadljud själv på d50? har själv en motif es7 och gillar att skruva fram leadljud. Har du något generellt programmerings-tips för ett intressant leadljud?

Tack:)
/Erik

Tacksam för svar.
/Erik

JESSE - January 12th, 2007 07:01

i’m really an big fan of darkane and your stuff.. electrocution 250 was amazing.. peter wildoer is my favorite drummer.. his style is just amazing.. i am a drummer by the way.. i plan on getting this dvd when it comes out.. i wanted to know if peter does an drum solo.. i really cant wait to get it.. it sounds so good on the preview

Brendan - January 16th, 2007 22:01

wow.. I saw the trailer, and I need this dvd! Is there any update on either a) when its ready, or if it is b) where I can get it!
thank you VERY much!

Sven - March 15th, 2007 17:03

Hi,

can you give me the actual status of the Seven Deadly Pieces? is there a publishing date in the not so far future?

Bye

Sven

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