Name Lars Hollmer Role Accordionist | Movies Accordion Tribe | |
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Died December 26, 2008, Uppsala, Sweden Albums XII Sibiriska Cyklar, Fran natt idag, Utsikter, Andetag Music groups Samla Mammas Manna (1969 – 2008), Accordion Tribe (1996 – 2008) Similar People Coste Apetrea, Hasse Bruniusson, Lindsay Cooper, Gianni Gebbia, Bratko Bibic | ||
Guy klucevsek boeves psalm by lars hollmer
Lars Gustav Gabriel Hollmer (21 July 1948 – 25 December 2008) was a Swedish accordionist, keyboardist and composer, whose work drew on music ranging from Nordic folk tunes to progressive rock. He has been a member and/or founder of over half a dozen groups, most of whose work has been recorded at The Chickenhouse, his well outfitted home studio in his hometown of Uppsala. His work with the band Samla Mammas Manna, in the late 1960s and early 1970s and up to 2002, when the re-formed group played at the two-day ProgDay festival in North Carolina, was and is considered progressive rock. However, he is most centrally an empathetic and generous collaborator: whether as a member of Accordion Tribe, while working with the experimental guitarist Fred Frith, or while spending several months with Japanese jazz players, he seems to find a style that brings his partners to the fore while remaining identifiably himself. Though his work is little known in the United States, he won a Swedish Grammis award in 1999 for his record Andetag. He has also composed extensively for Swedish film, as well as for theatre and dance productions. Consistent elements of his music throughout his career included use of irregular time signatures (often changing several times within a piece), a daring sense of improvisation (particularly vocal improvisation that utilized nonsense syllables), and used complex polyrhythms.
Contents
- Guy klucevsek boeves psalm by lars hollmer
- Sola lars hollmer s global home project swedish tv 2002
- With Samla Mammas Manna
- With Zamla Mammaz Manna
- With von Zamla
- With Ramlsa Kvllar
- With Fem Sker En Skatt
- With Looping Home Orchestra
- With Accordion Tribe
- With Japanese jazz players
- With Fanfare Pourpour
- Solo albums
- References
Hollmer died in December 2008 of cancer, aged 60. He is buried in Berthåga Cemetery in Uppsala, grave number 05130291.
Sola lars hollmer s global home project swedish tv 2002
With Samla Mammas Manna
With Zamla Mammaz Manna
With von Zamla
With Ramlösa Kvällar
