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

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”

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/

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

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.

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.

Seven Deadly Pieces Promo

Check out some new streaming music from the upcoming DVD at http://www.myspace.com/lalelarson

The Gothenburg artrock society GARF are selling a compilation DVD featuring several bands from the annual outdoor festival “Slottsskogen Goes Progressive 2004″. In their trailer you can see a short excerpt from a keyboard solo I did with Jonas Reingold’s band Karmakanic as well as some great vocals from Göran Edman. http://www.artrock.se/garf_dvd.htm

Finally my new guestbook is up and running.
Please leave a message and let me know that you’ve been here.

More news,
Phi Yaan Zek’s new album Solar Flare is now available at CD Baby and Guitar 9 and I’m playing on four tracks. Really creative music with contributions from Marco Minneman and Bumblefoot among others.

SDP DVD

We will soon start cutting the rest of the Seven Deadly Pieces DVD and hopefully it will be finished sometime this autumn. Stay tuned for more news.

Death metal session

A couple of weeks ago I played a really distorted guestsolo on Darkane guitarist Christofer Malmstr? forthcoming solo album “A Non Human Level” the album features Gustaf Hielm (Ex Meshuggah) and Ryan van Poederooyen (Devin Townsend Band). Check Christofer’s site for more info.

Read my latest interview

TimeLine CD with Gary Willis & Bas Cornelissen now available! Buy it at Audiophile Imports or Abstract Logix

Check out the new MP3 & Video section.

Read about “The Seven Deadly Pieces” project and watch the trailer (29mb) from the upcoming DVD

Read the Tour diaries from the RHP tour 2005 here

The Italian Axe magazine published the chart to my composition “Free” in their january 2005 issue.

Check out the four page interview with Richard Hallebeek about the RHP album (translated version).