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LARSEN - La Fever Lit - CD
imprec221 - CD - $12.99 
La Fever Lit is Larsen’s eighth album in 13 years of activity, it is also first studio album since 2006 Seies, after the double live Larsen & Friends CD/DVD set Abeceda. Also being released at the same time is a deluxe Larsen live LP titled LLL.
La Fever Lit features the legendary dubdiva/post-punk-cabaret icon, from Crass to On-u sound via NWW, Coil & C93, Little Annie aka Annie Anxiety Badnez.
Musically, La Fever Lit opens slowly, intentionally & deliberately. La Fever Lit could be considered the most focused Larsen record yet but at the same time it's also their most experimental and floating. Much of the material on La Fever Lit was composed for architecture, having been written to be played in Torino's landmark Mole Antonelliano which is now a national film museum. Performing from the elicoidal stair inside the huge dome of this futuristic building, Larsen spread out massive revererations of sound and bouncing lights upon the audience. Somehow, these bouncing lights are a big part of Larsen's new sound.
Cinematic pop, illuminating rhythms, musical weightlessness and the nocturnal noire narrative style of Annie Anxiety.
Larsen delivers one of their most unique musical offerings but it's ultimately Annie Anxiety who defines the album. Having seen Larsen live a few years back she offered to sing and La Fever Lit was the perfect record for her vocal companionship. Her lyrics, her moods and her delivery, especially on Lefrak City Limits, deliver the listener to an old and twisted reality, drowned in melancholy, where characters lives suddenly make sense if only for a few suspended seconds framed in frozen time. All of this happens while Julia Kent delivers her most beautiful offerings to the Larsen sound and Marco Milanesio's production is so in tune with Larsen's sound that he is able to extraxt the textures that their music is built on.
Every listen brings you a little closer to La Fever Lit.
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| LARSEN & FRIENDS |
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| ABECEDA |
| $20 |
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Larsen w/ David Tibet (Current
93), Julia Kent (Antony & the Johnsons), Baby Dee (Current 93) & Johann Johannsson.
This CD/DVD set captures Larsen & Friends live
at a sold out performance in an ancient Italian theater paying
tribute with music, words, dance & text to the brilliant Czech typographer and founder of Devestil Karel
Teige.
Packaged in a deluxe custom die cut slip cover with a full
color 20 page glued in booklet this entire package, inside
and out, is one of the finest pieces Important Records has
ever helped bring to life..... (more) |
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| LARSEN |
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| Play
(full length) |
| $11.99 |
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Larsen
shirt available
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To say
that Larsen is mysterious or elusive is an understatement.
They are are so elusive, in fact, that Micheal Gira of The
Swans/Angels Of Light fame once said of Larsen “"I
worked intimately with the band for three weeks, but I never
saw their faces." Perhaps the finest description of their
sound came from a perceptive, if not overly wordy, Italian
music journalist who described them as an “italian-cult-collective-urban-folk-ritual-experimental
soundscape-wall of love band.” It’s all true. |
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| LARSEN |
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| HMKE
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| $7.99 |
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-read a recent Larsen interview
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Larsen's HMKE contains a Deathprod remix and an Origami
Galaktika remix of two new Larsen tracks. The remaining
two tracks are unremixed Larsen originals unavailable
elsewhere and featuring their beloved cellist Julia Kent (also of Antony & The Johnsons.)
The second track M, a Larsen original, will be
available on the forthcoming Larsen album Seis but
as a Lustmord/Larsen collaboration and not in
this original form. |
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| XXL |
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| Spicchiology? |
| $11.99 |
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All Important Records direct mailorder
copies will include a free bonus album of improvised XXL material
taken from their rehersal sessions for Spicchiology?
Spicchiology? is the sophomore release from the supergroup
XXL comprising all members of Xiu Xiu and Larsen.
Recorded in late 2006 in Torino Italy Spicchiologi? is the
result of a profoundly creative friendship translated into
music and spanning the globe.. (more) |
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| XXL (Xiu Xiu Larsen) |
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| Ciautastico! |
| $11.99 |
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XXL
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Ciautistico! is the debut album from XXL (Xiu Xiu Larsen),
a collaboration between the Italian experimental cult band Larsen and James Stewart's mutated-pop project Xiu
Xiu. Both groups consider their joint creative clash as
a new band in itself more than just an occasional collaboration
as it has been already proved by the succesful sold out theater
performances in Italy by XXL. |
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| In
Pink |
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Brand new full length, 2nd for Important,
from Larsen/XXL member Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo's
brilliant ( r ) project. Highly recommended.... (more) |
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| LARSEN |
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| Musm
II |
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Musm has long been out of print on
both cd and lp. Originally released as a tour only cd this
extremely expanded edition is titled Musm II and it
includes all the non-album tracks that Larsen have
released since their first full length as well as the original
tracks from Musm. ......(more) |
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| Under
The Cables Into The Wind |
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Debut
solo album from Larsen's Fabrizio Modonese Polumbo.
"...surprisingly gentle inflections, combining low voices,
groung hugging mists of keyboards, genial electronic hucklebuck
and even acoustic guitar to create small vistas of delightful
otherness..."
The Wire
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