LALLE LARSSON'S WEAVEWORLD - WEAVEWORLD

After I was really attracted by Swedish keyboardist Lalle's album from year 2010 (" Infinity Of Worlds"), I found this ,his previous album, I didn't listen before.

Not a big surprise - music there is really high quality mix of symphonic (Scandinavian) metal, vintage jazz fusion and some modern classical instrumentations. Very well balanced, melodic, but never too cheesy, with many rhythm and structures variations. One great album of modern instrumental progressive rock.

This album (as next one as well) is released on bassist Jonas Reingold own label, and Jonas plays on it (besides of other known Swedish symphonic metal high class musicians). Comparing with " Infinity Of Worlds", what is not very logical chronologically, but quite logical for me and some other listeners, who will find out this album after they were attracted by successful release from 2010, Weaveworld is more classic-influenced, a bit more chamber and less heavy. But in all, if you like Infinity Of The Worlds, you will like this album as well.

Very pleasant and quality mainstream instrumental prog ( strongly influenced by Swedish symphonic (metal) prog school) release. Not the album for fans of advanced,experimental music though.

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Posted Saturday, November 20, 2010 | Review this album | Report (Review #326792)

Before I am going to write this review, I would like to ask permission from a certain mister Francis Murphy, recently better known under the name of FMX, who took the liberty of lecturing me about my review on Lalle Larsson's Infinity Of Worlds". He claims to recognize a masterpiece and denies other ... (read more)

Report this review (#1253714) | Posted by progpig66 (arnold) | Tuesday, August 19, 2014 | Review Permanlink

A lackluster album but not a lackluster effort, here we have a well-produced, well-played and well thought-out heap of utterly predictable music. Maybe I'm jaded, maybe I'm downright wrong, but the music here feels all too familiar and, at times, far too monotonous. Marionette and Dance of the Dead ... (read more)

Report this review (#1172712) | Posted by MJAben | Thursday, May 8, 2014 | Review Permanlink

With a band consisting of two guitar players, the more jazz-orientated Richard Hallebeek and the more heavy sounding Stefan Rosquist, the unsurpassed bass player Jonas Reingold,the excellent drummer Mickael Wahlgren and a small textless vocal contribution in the second song by Richard Szary, S ... (read more)

Report this review (#453659) | Posted by Life Line Project | Sunday, May 29, 2011 | Review Permanlink

This is a fantastically well done album with some great players on it. Jonas Reingold supplies some very tasty fretless bass work and Walle Wahlgren is fantastic on drums. And of course Lalle Larsson is is a pianist/keyboardist whose talents seem to know no bounds. He plays with fantastic preci ... (read more)

Report this review (#306483) | Posted by plasmatopia | Sunday, October 24, 2010 | Review Permanlink

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