Lars Boutrup´s Music for Keyboards

News 2006

News - August - September 2006

Review - Subba Cultcha (UK)

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Review - CD services/Dead Earnest

LARS BOUTRUP: Music For Keyboards     CD
Danish musician whose worked for years in the world of classical, soundtrack and rock music circles - and it's the first two of that list which shine through here. With an album of 9 tracks between three and nine minutes long, what you hear is the sweeping, epic nature of expansive synths/strings-dominated music that is positively filmic in both design and effect. Choc full of melody, these are tune-laden compositions which rise up and fill your horizon, a bit like some soundtrack to a film on the Grand Canyon or similar sort of thin. In other words, it's music that evokes imagery relating to vast open spaces or huge structures - that sort of thing. Epic in scope and nature, if not in length, it's music with purpose. With the sound predominantly performed on what sounds awfully like Emerson's old '70's Moog synths combined with string synths and drums, there's a decided seventies feel about it all, while the tracks themselves don't readily conform to any particular time frame - as with most soundtrack styled music - being taken for what it is. So, if you like huge-sounding compositions of a decidedly soundtrack nature, performed on synths and drums, with occasional seventies ELP  styled organ, that are melodic, strong, rhythmically solid, a bit of a cross between synth and prog and accessible, then this album should suit you down to the ground.

Andy Garibaldi (CD Services/Dead Earnest)

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Playlists - The Dividing Line

The Dividing Line : June 4, 2006.

1. Rene Young - ProgRoots On The Air (2:55)
2. The Yardbirds - Over Under Sideways Down (2:22)
3. Secret Saucer - Star Rise (1:29)
4. Secret Saucer - Sword of Conneaut (6:49)
5. Secret Saucer - Solar Winds (4:19)
6. Yes - Close To The Edge (The Solid Time Of Change; Total Mass Retain; I GetUp I Get Down; Seasons Of Man) (18:44)
7. War Of The Worlds - The Serpent Machine (0:38)
8. Tool - Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann) (3:46)
9. Tool - Rosetta Stoned (11:11)
10. Lars Boutrup - The Day After (5:34)
11. Eyestrings - DLBN promo - Ryan Parmenter (0:06)
12. Eyestrings - Valid For A Week (11:48)
13. Filter - The Best Things (4:25)
14. War Of The Worlds - The Harvester Machines (0:41)
15. Billy Joel - Allentown (3:52)
16. Tears For Fears - Raoul And The Kings Of Spain (5:15)
17. Tears For Fears - God's Mistake (3:47)
18. Carl Palmer - 2006 Tour Promo (0:13)
19. Carl Palmer - Tank (4:42)
20. Sieges Even - To The Ones Who Have Failed (7:26)
21. Muse - Stockholm Syndrome (4:58)
22. King Crimson - Indoor Games (5:37)
23. The Flower Kings - Check In (1:37)
24. The Flower Kings - Monsters & Men (21:21)
25. The Screen - Witness (3:35)
26. Cheap Trick - Goodnight (1:52)
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The Dividing Line : June 11, 2006, Show #202.

1. Rene Young - ProgRoots On The Air (2:55)
2. Captain Beyond - Raging River Of Fear (3:47)
3. Iona - Menu Background Music (1:00)
4. Iona - Woven Chord (10:27)
5. Iona - Wave After Wave (6:39)
6. Dave Bainbridge - Over the Waters (7:29)
7. Tool - Vicarious (7:06)
8. OSI - Free (3:22)
9. Pink Floyd - Us And Them (4:23)
10. Pink Floyd - One Of These Days (11:23)
11. Pink Floyd - Mademoiselle Nobs (2:04)
12. Pink Floyd - Brain Damage (6:57)
13. Lars Boutrup - Emersong (6:57)
14. Lars Boutrup - Northern Lights (4:44)
15. Carl Palmer - ID-ProgRoots (0:04)
16. Emerson Lake & Palmer - 06 - From The Beginning (4:12)
17. Emerson Lake & Palmer (Live 1997) - Take A Pebble (6:26)
18. Trigon - Explicit Lyrics (9:48)
19. Ars Nova - Kali (Demolition And Massacre) (9:21)
20. Triumvirat - The March to the Eternal City (8:46)
21. Triumvirat - Spartacus (7:39)
22. Jack Foster III - Nirvana In The Notes (14:07)
23. Evergrey - Intro (1:38)
24. Evergrey - Blinded (4:45)
25. Evergrey - End of Your Days (4:38)
26. David Gilmour - Wish You Were Here (5:47)
27. David Gilmour with David Crosby & Graham Nash - Find the Cost of Freedom (2:04)
28. David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb (8:45)
29. Cheap Trick - Goodnight (1:52)
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The Dividing Line: July 16, 2006, Show #207.

1. Rene Young - ProgRoots On The Air (2:55)
2. Deep Purple - Hard Lovin' Man (7:11)
3. Pink Floyd - See Emily Play (2:55)
4. Barrett, Syd - Syd Barrett- Effervescing Elephant (1:54)
5. Pink Floyd - Careful with That Axe, Eugene (5:44)
6. Pink Floyd - Point Me At The Sky (3:35)
7. Syd Barrett - Two of a Kind (2:34)
8. Systems Theory - Silent Service (11:36) (Background music)
9. Wobbler - Rubato Industry (12:45)
10. Frost* - The Other Me (4:51)
11. Frost* - Black Light Machine (10:07)
12. Mirror System - Mirror Beach (8:18) (Background music)
13. Cream - Spoonful (Live At The Filmore) (16:46)
14. Derek Sherinian - The Monsoon (6:05)
15. Jam Camp - Wormhole (4:21) (Background music)
16. Project Creation - The Floating World (7:12)
17. Project Creation - Living Under A Blue Sky (4:20)
18. Iron Butterfly - Iron Butterfly Theme (4:34)
19. id-kim mitchell (0:03)
20. Max Webster - Here Among The Cats (3:04)
21. Max Webster - Coming Off The Moon (3:43)
22. Kim Mitchell - O Mercy Louise (3:59)
23. Deep Forest - Deep Forest (Dream City Mix) (6:31) (Background music)
24. Black Sabbath - Don't Start (Too Late) (0:49)
25. Black Sabbath - Symptom Of The Universe (6:29)
26. Noise Therapy - Fast Like A Rabbit (0:10)
27. Noise Therapy - Losermagnet (3:08)
28. Noise Therapy - Down (3:58)
29. Stackridge - Fish In a Glass (7:20)
30. Just Offshore - 24-7 (5:57) (Background music)
31. Tool - H (6:06)
32. Liquid Village - Moth (4:00)
33. Syzygy - The Allegory of Light - Distant Light (5:37)
34. Cannata - Life (4:19)
35. Cannata - French (3:05)
36. Van & Borner - Golden Spirits (7:28) (Background music)
37. Typhoid Mary - The Bridge (3:59)
38. Ambrosia - Somewhere I've Never Travelled (4:12)
39. Lars Boutrup - Northern Lights (4:44)
40. Robbert Berry - Roundabout (6:54)
41. Cheap Trick - Goodnight (1:52)
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The Dividing Line: Behind The Lines, August 1, 2006,Guest host ReneYoung

1. Retroheads - Earthsong (10:45)
2. Shawn Bishop - BTL Intro (Rene Young) (1:40)
3. Clearlight - Movement I (Background music)
4. Retroheads - Judgement Day (9:16)
5. Xinema - Blind is the Light (6:54)
6. Ayreon - Another Time, Another Space (5:20)
7. Clearlightt - Movement II (Background music)
8. Freak Kitchen - Heroin Breakfast (4:06)
9. Spock's Beard - Second Overture (3:46)
10. Spock's Beard - 4th Of July (3:10)
11. Spock's Beard - I'm The Guy (4:48)
12. Clearlightt - Movement IV (Background music)
13. Frost* - The Other Me (4:51

The Genesis Houah:
14. Duke - Turn It On Again (3:51)
15. Duke - Behind the lines (5:31)
16. Lars Boutrup - Agent Orange (6:04)
17. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (4:49)
18. Genesis - Fly On a Windshield (4:23)
19. Genesis - Broadway Melody of 1974 (0:33)
20. Peter Gabriel - Red Rain (6:20)
21. Steve Hackett - Watcher Of The Skies (8:40)
22. Shaun Guerin - A Queen's Tale (5:51)
23. Deep Forest - Sunrise at Alcatraz Part 2
24. Genesis - ... In That Quiet Earth (4:49)
25. IZZ - Cage Medley (16:22)

Back to the regular show:
26. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machines (Background music)
27. DLBN Promo - Devin Townsend (0:12)
28. Devin Townsend - Olives (3:21)
29. Devin Townsend - Mountain (6:32)
30. Devin Townsend - Deep Peace (7:34)
31. Frost* - Snowman (3:55)
32. Collective Soul - Heavy (2:56)
33. Lars Boutrup - While The City Sleeps(5:42)
34. Kings X - I Can't Help It (3:52) * Request
35. Jesus Jones - The Next Big Thing (4:01)
36. Jesus Jones - Motion (4:54)
37. House Of Not - Force Of Nature (4:05)
38. Jadis - I Never Noticed (5:26)
39. Jadis - Fanatic (4:06)
40. Jadis - Yourself Alone (5:58)
41. Anthony Phillips - Lostwithiel (4:36)
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The Dividing Line: August 6, 2006, Show #210.

1. Rene Young - ProgRoots On The Air (2:55)
2. Clip: Do you know anything about computers? (0:03)
3. Billy Thorpe - 1991 (6:46)
4. Bruce BecVar - Jacarandigo (Background Music)
5. Spaced Out - Event Horizon (2:13)
6. Spaced Out - Art Attack Pt 2 (5:51)
7. Clip: Your system sucks (0:04)
8. Silent Agreement - Burning the Revolution (6:09)
9. Van & Borner - Shadow Dancing (Background Music)
10. Retroheads - Rainy Day (5:28)
11. Retroheads - Living In A Bubble (8:31)
12. Retroheads - Black Hole Eyes (6:50)
13. Billy Sheehan - The Trees (4:33)
14. Lars Boutrup - Rockall (8:54)

THE YES HOUR:
15. Clip: Yes, yes (0:03)
16. Yes - Firebird Suite (1:23)
17. Yes - Going for the One (5:37)
18. Peter Banks - Astral Traveler (7:00)
19. Yes - And You And I (Cord Of Life; Eclipse; The Preacher The Teacher; Apocalypse) (10:11)
20. XYZ - Track 10 (4:53)
21. Mike Keneally - Faithful Axe (1:25)
22. Yes - In the Presence Of (10:23)
23. Yes - Lift Me Up (6:30)
24. Chris Squire - Silently Falling (11:27)

Back to the regular show (briefly):
25. Clip: Just one moment (0:01)
26. Brett Garsed - Undoing (Background Music)
27. Klaatu - Around The Universe In Eighty Days (4:58) REQUEST
28. Klaatu - Older (3:16) REQUEST

ADVENTURES IN VINYL:
29. Gibson Les Paul Recording promotional sound sheet
30. Brian Protheroe - You / I (5:42)
31. Edgar Winter Group - Some Kinda Animal (3:05)
32. Edgar Winter Group - Easy Street (4:13)
33. Edgar Winter Group - Sundown (3:25)
34. Tonio K - H.A.T.R.E.D. (4:21)

Back to the regular show (again):
35. Trance Lucid - The Birds of Years Past (Background Music)
36. Karfagen - A Winter Tale - Part 1 (4:27)
37. Karfagen - A Winter Tale - Part 2 (5:34)
38. Nil - Quarante Jours Sur Le Sinai (0:12)
39. Nil - Savoir, Vouloir, Osr, Se Taire / Introduction (1:50)
40. Nil - Prologue: Atlantis (4:01)
41. Nil - Chapitre Premier: Exil (1:56)
42. Nil - Chapitre Premier: Exil (1:27)
43. Nil - Chapitre Deuxieme: Osiris (0:37)
44. Nil - Chapitre Troisieme: Isis (1:23)
45. Nil - Chapitre Troisieme: Isis (2:20)
46. Jam Camp - Wormhole (Background Music)
47. Hamadryad - Alien Spheres (5:59)
48. Cheap Trick - Goodnight (1:52)
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The Dividing Line: August 27, 2006, Show #213.

1. Rene Young - ProgRoots On The Air (2:55)
AM Radio Hits, Summer of 1968:
2. Mason Williams - Classical Gas (3:07)
3. Lars Boutrup - Northern Lights (Background Music)
4. Fever Tree - San Francisco Girls (3:34)
5. Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild (3:32)
6. Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon (4:52)
7. Nazz - Open My Eyes (2:45)
8. The Nazz - Hello It's Me (3:57)
9. Doors - Hello I Love You (2:13)
10. The Beatles - Revolution (3:24)
11. Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash (3:45)
12. Eric Burdon & The Animals - Sky Pilot, Part 1 (Single Version) (4:24)
13. Cream - White Room (5:03)
14. Deep Purple - Hush (4:25)
15. The Millennium - Prelude (1:17)
16. The Millennium - To Claudia On Thursday (3:25)

17. Yes Yes Yes! (0:03)
18. Yes - And You And I (11:23)
19. Stanley Snail - Siberian Khatru (8:08)
20. Yes - Arriving UFO (6:03)
21. Yes - Tempus Fugit (5:16)
22. Yes - Mood For A Day (3:02)
23. Yes - City of Love (4:51)
24. Yes - Big Generator (4:34)
25. Yes - Beyond and Before (4:58)
26. Yes - Starship Trooper (9:34)
27. Chick Corea - Bessie's Blues (Background Music)

Adventures In Vinyl (0:12)
28. Heart - Heartless
29. Hudson-Ford - Silent Star (8:27)
30. James Gang - Live In Concert - Stop
31. James Gang - Live In Concert - You're Gonna Need Me
32. James Gang - Live In Concert - Take A Look Around
33. James Gang - Live In Concert - Tend My Garden
34. James Gang - Live In Concert - Ashes, The Rain & I
35. Systems Theory - Silent Service (Background Music)

36. Frost* - Snowman (3:55)
37. Coheed and Cambria - Keeping the Blade (2:09)
38. Coheed and Cambria - Always and Never (2:23)
39. Jesus Jones - Welcome Back Victoria (3:37)
40. Mirror System - Lazy (Background Music)
41. Jesus Jones - Idiot Stare (5:10)
42. Cheap Trick - Goodnight (1:52)
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The Dividing Line: September 3, 2006, Show #214.

1. Rene Young - ProgRoots On The Air (2:55)
2. Jeff Beck - Beck's Bolero (2:53)
3. Just Offshore - Ocean Storm (Background Music)
4. Frost* - Hyperventilate (7:31)
5. Frost* - No Me, No You (6:06)
6. Frost* - Snowman (3:55)
7. ProgRoots ID - Steven Wilson (0:05)
8. Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere (But Not Here) (12:02)
9. Porcupine Tree - Futile (6:04)
10. Lars Boutrup - The Day After (5:33)
11. Alannah Myles - Still Got This Thing (4:37)
12. Alannah Myles - Love Is (3:40)
13. ELP - Hoedown (3:47)

14. Yes Yes Yes!
15. Yes - Close To The Edge (18:14)
16. Yes - Heart Of The Sunrise (11:23)
17. Howe Steve - Labyrinth (Background Music)
18. Yes - White Car (1:21)
19. Yes - Machine Messiah (10:25)
20. Yes - Sound Chaser (9:30)
21. Systems Theory - Zero Sum Equation (Background Music)

Adventures In Vinyl:
22. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Demolition Man (Somewhere In Afrika, 1983) (3:40)
23. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Runner (Somewhere In Afrika, 1983) (4:40)
24. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Rebel (Somewhere In Afrika, 1983) (3:52)
25. Scorpions - I'm Going Mad (Lonesome Crow, 1972) (4:53)
26. Scorpions - It All Depends (Lonesome Crow, 1972) (3:26)
27. Scorpions - In Search Of The Peace Of Mind (Lonesome Crow, 1972) (4:59)

23. Carl Palmer - ID-ProgRoots (0:04)
24. Carl Palmer - Toccata (8:00)
25. Mirror System - Mirror Beach (Background Music)
26. Xinema - Ghost of a Memory Part I - Nothing to Fear (4:00)
27. Xinema - Ghost of a Memory Part II - Grapes of Wrath (0:43)
28. Xinema - Ghost of a Memory Part III - the Passage (1:18)
29. Xinema - Ghost of a Memory Part IV - Black Pigeon (4:54)
30. Xinema - Ghost of a Memory Part V - Deus Ex Machina (1:25)
31. Soundtrack - 2001: A Space Odyssey - Gayne Ballet Suite (Background Music)
32. Spiraling - Lightning Twice (4:26)
33. Cheap Trick - Goodnight (1:52)

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Buy or lend Music for Keyboards

If you are located in Sweden you can now buy or lend Music for Keyboards through the Swedish national library netshop, simly follow the link below and search for artist Lars Boutrup:

http://www.btj.se/musikwebb/FrontServlet


News - May - July 2006

More places to buy the CD

Through the services of CD baby Music for Keyboards can now be ordered in 2400 shops in USA. Just ask for the album and the shop will find it through the database.

Playlists Droll Radio

We´ve also got a cool playlist to share with you here from Droll Radio:

Anything is game for Drool Trough, and from one track to the next you will hear completely different sounds and styles, all from homemade musicians and teeny weeny but ultra fiesty labels.

Drool Trough Radio (show #46) 16/04/2006

Arthur Loves Plastic - "Pursuit of Happiness" (from Pursuit of Happiness)
Cherry Smash - "The Seeker" (from A Tribute to the Sunnboys)
The Booby Traps - "I Try" (from The Booby Traps)
Mink Jaguar - "Hotter Than Mojave" (From Mink Jaguar)
4tRECk - "FrogJig 4b" (from Je Me Promenade)
Chaos Code - "Saturated" (from Propaganda)
The Alien Kings - "Roswell Cover-up" (from Roswell Cover-up)
The Barbarellatones - "Chocky (Hawaiian Dirt-Cat)" (from Coldsore)
Volumen - "Orson Welles Was Right" (from Science Faction)
Televise - "Mercy Seat" (from Songs to Sing In A & E)
Polyphonic - "Land Rovers in the Video" (from Abstract Data Ark)
The Greaseballs - "Dark Side of Flicka" (from Tombstone Wax)
Grayson Wray - "Hong Kong Mystery" (from Alternate Heavens)
Ether Aura - "About You" (from Crash)
The Destroyed - "Crime Wave" (from Russian Roulette)
Vopat - "Sometimes It Will" (from Sometimes It Will)
The Redundant Rocker - "Nuved" (from Collider)
Ethelscull - "Life-String" (from Sentimentalia)
Beatglider - "Lights on the Water" (from Beatglider v Shinri E.P)
Lars Boutrup - "Emersong" (from Music for Keyboards)

Buy or lend Music for Keyboards

If you are located in Denmark you can now buy or lend Music for Keyboards through the national library netshop, simly follow the link below:

https://www.bibliotekernesnetmusik.dk/netmusik2006/showalbum.jsp?id=phonofile-0000000000295988

Review - The Rocker/ Zeitgeist (UK)

And now, ladies and gentlemen, all the way from denmark, Europe - Mr Lars Boutrup! Which is a wholly inappropriate way of introducing this refined album of instrumental, prog electronica.

It comes as no surprise to learn that Lars has worked in the classical field and that of silent movie music as, at its best, there is a cinematic, sweeping feel to his sound.

It covers a wide range from the bouncy "Agent Orange" through the bombastic "The Day After" and into the album highlight, the organ heavy "Emersong" - yes, really. Nearly as good is the nine minute album closer, the portentous "Rockall".
For fans of keyboard driven prog this should give much pleasure.

The Rocker/Zeitgeist UK.

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Review - The Dutch Progressive Rock Page (The Netherlands)

There seemed to be a period early last year (2005) when almost every release I reviewed fell under the broad umbrella of Ambient or Electronica based music. Since then these particular releases have been absent form my CD player, until now that is, and with the arrival of Lars Boutrup's Music For Keyboards. The album title tells us much about the music with Lars Boutrop undertaking all manner of keyboard duties. His only allie is Fredrik Sunesen who supplies drums and assorted percussion.

Prior to this release the name of Lars Boutrup had totally eluded me, but reading through his biography it would appear that he has been writing and performing since the latter part of the 70s, and recording and releasing music from the late 80s onward - initially with Simcess, then a solitary album with Rasmus Lyberth in 1992, later followed by a string of releases during the 90s with Sing Sing. EPs and albums with Big Bang and Masquerade take us from the 90s into the 00s and finally to this release from 2005. His site also reveals a vast array of compositions written presumably as "screen music" and are listed in his Movie house tour section.

What is evident from an early stage is that Lars Boutrup is a keyboard player in his own right and that Music For Keyboards is not just the product of a imaginative mind, a PC and some clever music software. The compositions show not only a clear musical ability, but also an number of influences garnered from the classical, progressive, new age, and electronic spheres. It is also evident that Lars has listened to many keyboard players in his time. So along with those perhaps more obvious pointers of Vangelis and J M Jarre certainly Emerson and Moraz are noticeable. Add Tangerine Dream to the melting pot and perhaps a clearer picture might start to emerge.

The album had an immediate "ear prick" with the slowly rising chords of The Perfect Stranger - is this some sort of electronic version of Tarkus? These thoughts were soon dismissed. Agent Orange is a bouncy early Jarre-like track, the constant bass drum beat is accented by various percussion parts, adding movement to Boutrup's string washes and multitude of synthy bass and lead lines. Infectious! Same applies to Northern Lights and to a certain degree to the closing piece, although maybe not quite as successfully.

What was perhaps not immediately apparent with Music For Keyboards was the strength of the writing, and that may have been more attributed to a certain degree of dismissiveness on my behalf, which I apologise for. The minimalist approach of While The City Sleeps was initially a "skip bye" track, however a more in depth analysis of the piece revealed some clever and interesting arranging going on underneath the piano.

The Day After, Flying In The Sky and Emersong (might be a little clue in there) are sprawling efforts, drifting effortlessly across the speakers, whereas Alla Gypsy is a jaunty tune with a very gypsy-like Eastern European melody.

Music For Keyboards was a grower for me. I can't say that at first I was greatly enamoured by the music, but as I have returned to it over the last few weeks, for the purposes of reviewing it for DPRP, I have certainly warmed to much of the material.

Conclusion: 6 out of 10

BOB MULVEY

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Review - Axiom Of Choice - (The Netherlands)

Summary of history:
Lars Boutrup hails from Denmark, and this album is filled to the brim with
keyboards and supporting percussion.

The album:
Well, the title of this album leaves little room for guessing. The opener is
typically an opener, preparing us for things to come. Boutrup spends some time
building tension here, and it is not plain bombast.

Agent Orange is quite a bit more up-beat, almost danceable, especially with the
beat present in this tune. For the rest, the keyboards simple solo over the
drum beat, giving me a bit of a Harold Faltermeyer/Jan Hammer feel.
The interlude has some strong Jarre like church organish play, but on the whole,
the music is a bit too commercial for my tastes.

The Day After is quite a difference with its slow majestic beginning.
The second half had slow drumming, some of them backwards, and the sound stays
majestic with long sustained notes.

Alla Gypsy is quite frolic and fast, with the keys having a bit of a marimba
feel, light to the touch. Towards the end more elements come in, and the sound
becomes fuller. Flying In The Sky is more in the vein of The Day After with
long sustains and full chords. There are elements of drama and maybe a bit of
film music here.

Now who might have inspired Emersong? The song is bombastic, but surprisingly
not flashy at all. More like ponderous and brassy. Still, of the songs thus
far it sounds the most 'proggy'. Only at the very end do the typical ELP
trademarks come in.

Northern Lights is a slow opener again, but this time we quickly move into
an up-beat section, with orchestral elements. The music has strongly filmic
aspects as well, and strangely enough this gives no problems with the monotonous
beat.

While The City Sleeps opens with piano, and this is pretty much what you get.
I mean there are some keyboard elements as well. but the semi-clasicalness
of the piano is all-pervading. In the second half, we move more into the direction
of people like Fonya, do it yourself progrock artists with a focus on keyboards.
The longest tune is Rockall and is reserved for last. The track opens darkly,
but soon mellow synths set in. The percussion is quite pronounced throughout, and
overall the bombast is pervasive. The keyboard lines are not particularly likable
though. I guess, the reference point here is Vangelis, although the melodies
are less interesting.

Conclusion:
Music For Keyboards is meant for those into electronic music. Most of the percussion
is 'live' and not programmed. Boutrup tries to make everybody a bit happy,
alternating between semi-classical, soundtracks, up-beat danceable electronics,
but always quite melodious and accessible. The music does not really spark anywhere,
and Boutrup did include some passages with tensions and drama, and fortunately
it is never trite or overly easy, even though the iTunes classification categorizes
it as Easy Listening.

Jurriaan Hage

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Review - Progressive Newsletter (Germany)

To see the review at the site you have to be a subscriber, so we´ve chosen to share the our English translation with you here:

Progressive Newsletter. de - 2006

Lars Boutrup is a Dane, and Danes do not lie known. Also the bent reader and potential prospective customer may assume according to law of the fact that the album title is not misleadingly, it is actually about a keyboard album. If one throws in addition still a look at the cover, one has landed mental compulsively with spherical Synth music.
It also begins accordingly with a 2-minutes spherical, a little bit orchestral Intro with far invested Synthistreicherflächen. However, in the other course appears, that to Lars Boutrup various fields of the genre - with different success - served. The titles happen in 2-till briefly minutes 9 area, endless sequences are not to be expected already. In the floating, spherical titles which arrive very pleasantly and melodiously the Dane absolutely knows how to convince. However, in other titles he(it) takes to some doubtful, rather to PC games reminding Sounds. It also sounds like a mixture of Tomita and Claude Larson, at some moments it also sounds lightly progressive-breathed on and certain Mr. Wakeman comes to me to the sense. Boutrup is supported by the drummer Fredrik Sunesen. But I have the impression that some rhythm seems to come, nevertheless, rather from the box. Boutrup looks back incidentally absolutely already at a certain career.
He(It) played in various volumes(tapes), worked in the skirt as well as pop area and has written numerous soundtrack subjects. Certainly, with the current album he(it) has not performed really innovative, but, nevertheless, nice (even if innocent) piece of instrumental music publishes which can like(fall) in spite of light deductions. . To bring itself lastingly in the talk and to be able to land successfully just in the Progbereich, however, must go unambiguously more here.

Jürgen Meurer

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NEWS - March - April 2006

Lars Boutrup´s Music for Keyboards review from encrucijada webzine gets 4 out of  5 stars !

http://www.encrucijada-melodic.com.ar

Or read the Engelish Translation here: 

LARS BOUTRUP does not create any surprise if one sees the title of this work. It  is exactly what it is: Music for Keyboards. One might think that it is a question of a work of musician destined for musicians exclusively, but it is not like that. The Danish tecladista is a great composer who has fused different musical kinds as the classical and the rock, giving like proved a particular style that has many similarities with the progressive genre, in several cases. Lars takes charge practically of all the instruments (keyboards, organs, synthesizers), except of the batteries and percussion, in this case executed by Fredrik Sunesen. " Music for Keyboards " is a work completamen set of instruments and very experimental, but very agreeable and delicate for the listener. The lid of disc creates a question: Will it be this work more of the movement New Age? But the response arises instantaneously on having listened to his songs. Lars's work is much more related by the sound tracks of films and by the classic music, that with and New Age. Then, from this also there is deduced that in several opportunities you stand out of this plate many progressive segments and rock. Songs like " Agent orange", " Northern lights " and "Rockall" confirm these hypotheses. Meanwhile, other cuts like " The perfect stranger ", " While the city sleeps ", " The day after ", " Flying in the sky " has its quota of classic music. "Emersong" is a rock 100% Progressive, but " Alla gypsy " it turns out a frantic cut in that Lars demonstrates his speed on the keyboards. Definitively, if you like the most experimental side of the Rock and especially the instrumental music, you are going to meet a work of great quality. 

Pablo B.

Reviews from  ITALY , GERMANY  NORWAY. 

Review from  Arleguins in Italy : http://www.arlequins.it/pagine/articoli/alfa/corpo.asp?iniz=B&fine=C&ch=3073

Or read the Engelish Translation here:

Arleguins - Italy

In the promotional notes attached in this cd the music of Lars Boutrup is  pompously been introduced as "rock, classical music and movie drama", so much enough to justify a title that doesn't leave space for a lot of interpretations... "Lars Boutrup's Music for Keyboards" it is composed from a recognizable music easily in a pop-rock symphonic instrumental from the alternate results, involving, visionary and at the same mellifluous time and not particularly original, decorated by electronic tinsels and new age, with some vague and irrisolta ambition of music ambient. The Danish tastierista Lars Boutrup has realized with this album his first soloist disc, a disc almost realized in complete loneliness with drummer Fredrik Sunesen's help to the percussions: Lars Boutrup in reality is in activity in the field of the music from over about twenty years, with to the asset a discreet number of disks realized through different bands (Simcess, Rasmus Lyberth, Sing Sing, Big Bang, Evil Masquerade etc...) and also a discreet success of public... evidently satiated of the rock'n'roll, Boutrup has decided to devote with his "Music for Keyboards" to the instrumental and meditative music, probably inspired by teachers as Vangelis, Patrick Moraz and... Tony Banks. The artistic quality of this cd is some altalenante, Boutrup alternates compositions rather you inspire and intense to moments since too much predictable in their carrying out and also a tantino kitch (for instance, the happy-go-lucky one "Agent Orange"): here clear production and cleaning up of the sounds it plays in favor a point for "LB's Music for Keyboards", the evoked atmospheres are those of the great uncontaminated spaces, a feeling of illumination and spiritual rebirth, feelings and atmospheres that assemble him especially in the final part of this controversial cd. Lars Boutrup seems to have us really left the best of his abilities in the last four passages of "Music for Keyboards", in effects the imposing symphonic elegance of pieces as "While the City Sleeps" or "Northern Lights" they can be worth well more than a listening... it is permissible therefore to wait him from Boutrup further developments and improvements for a possible second soloist work. 

Giovanni Carta

Review from Tempi-duri  in Italy : http://www.tempi-duri.it/recensioni/recensione_larsboutrop.html:

 Or read the Engelish Translation here:

Lars Boutrup' s Music for Keyboards. 

In order makes us an idea of this cd the comparisons that I could make are those that they behind bring back us in (not too much but) when a Swiss keyborder Patrick Moraz together gave to life to a plan of this to the English drummer Bill Bruford and the example more fulgido than this pair it was an entitled album "Flags" that memory like a album extremely jazzistiche and progressive legacy to sonorità, but with in more the fact that the disc in issue was totally instrumental and gave a various vision on as it could be conceived of the optimal one even though with a simple structure, other example and more neighbour stiticamente speaking has perhaps been the plan  keyborder Rudess of the Dream Theater the which together to Rod Morgestein battery that we remember the Dixie Dregs within before and to the Winger after.  This clearly to great lines in how much music of Lars Boutrup remembers very more some of the Tangerine Dream more recent even if with the due you limit of the case also why in some moments as an example "the Day after" approaches sure New Age electronic but in this center continuation with more taste.  Moreover is from saying one what a lot important on this Danish artist, in fact more attention between or will be remembered its participation as special to the disc of debut of metallers the Evil Maqurade. You will say but that there Boutrup with the metal enters?  Ask more than just, but evidently Lars is a versatile one and an eclectic one and with this "Music For keyboards" from a various reading of like can be proposed of optimal music, the conclusion after all this elucubrazione, is that if enough you are opened mentally speaking you succeed to find new feeling from this incredible artist. 

Review from Vampster.com  in Germany 2006 http://www.vampster.com/artikel/show/?id=18235

Or read the Engelish Translation here: 

An azure sky with clouds, in addition the label " Music for keyboards " – makes me inevitably think of the ingratiating, comforting music which wavers before the take-off by the aeroplane cabin to take the fear of the fly from the passengers and freights the sinewy sounds of unpleasant contemporaries decently in the background. And after the first mini overture the first impression of the cover as at all does not turn out so inappropriate - indeed, here is music in the start which could make the start more pleasant. LARS BOUTRUP creates by means of Keyboards, Synths and Hammond unobstrusive sound landscapes. These are breathed on lightly progressive level on While The city Sleeps - but only quite lightly, from Jens Johannsonschen Experimenten one is far away - then again a little bit melancholically à la AIR - " The Day After ". The Dane sometimes drifts in even great Nintendo Gamesoundtrack landscapes from and creates a little bit dudelige compositions like " Alla Gypsy " One cannot address to the professionalism to the separate creations meanwhile, man nobody affords boob. But from the atmosphere " Music for keyboards " at no time reaches the close of the works of JEAN-MICHEL JARRE and also in the area of the film soundtracks there are more fascinating albums. What remains comforting, pleasant mood music - is been suitable for cultivated Dinners with the parents-in-law or just: the time before one must fasten the seatbelt and stop the smoking. 

Arlette Huguenin

Review from  Bright  Eyes - in Germany

http://www.bright-eyes.de/baseportal/CDs/kritikendetail&Id==7151 

Or read the Engelish Translation here: 

The Dane Bautrupp, ah..BOUTRUP, has been in the business since the middle of the 80s, he could not do a big name himself, however, yet. If the case and with a plush solo disc with Keyboards, however, anyway rather rarely like " Music for Keyboards " the musician will also act furthermore more in the underground. Completely without singing, with massively exchangeable melodies, synthesizers without end and fuss drums LARS will not care just for furore in the scene. There are found to the even most commercial composition of project-steered Alan Parson like the coarsest thrash thunderstorm. And also if spherical excursions like in, The Day After,  to one grand volume from England (I do not want to mention the name in this discussion, otherwise MR. BOUTRUP imagines perhaps still what on it) remind, if the Scandinavian there is removed for many miles. Which volume I believe? I say ' only Waters/Gilmour. 

3 of 13 eyes 

 Bernd Joachim

Review from Tarkus – In Norway: 

Music for Keyboards, is the title, is there anything more to tell? Lars Boutrup has composed lots of different music , this is his first solo ablum, and this is not a bad try. With only drums and keyboards, Boutrup has produced  a row of inflammable instrumentals more like post-Gabriel Genesis than Tangerine Dream.  These light things are not progressive tekno, but they are very good if you want to hear something pleasant along with some more progressive. 

 Trond S.

Now you can buy Lars Boutrup´s Music for Keyboards at  : prefueled.com,

A  webside from Skandinavia where you can buy single tracks:

ÅIRPLAY FROM  HOLLAND , USA AND AGENTINA. 

Mark From Holland Plays Lars Boutrup´Music for Keyboards on his Radio Show !

http://www.markfromholland.com 

Playlist from 7-1-2006

http://www.gagliarchives.com/2006/934.html

Ezekiel
P.L.J.  Band, Armageddon, (Polygram, 1982/1994)

Oye
P.L.J.  Band, Armageddon, (Polygram, 1982/1994)

Code/anticode
Gordian  Knot, Gordian Knot, (Sensory, 1999)

Reflections
Gordian  Knot, Gordian Knot, (Sensory, 1999)

Fate's  Door
Age  Of Nemesis, Psychogeist, (Magna Carta, 2006)

Grey  Room
Age  Of Nemesis, Psychogeist, (Magna Carta, 2006)

Psychogeist
Age  Of Nemesis, Psychogeist, (Magna Carta, 2006)

Have  You Even Been To Electric Ladyland?
Jacob  Fred Jazz Odyssey, The Sameness Of Difference, (Hyena, 2005) 

Isobel
Jacob  Fred Jazz Odyssey, The Sameness Of Difference, (Hyena, 2005) 

Interview with gary Husband

The  Sixteen Men Of Tain
Gary  Husband, The Things I See, (Art Of Life, 1999) 

Water  On The Brain Part 1
Allan  Holdsworth, IOU Sessions, (1982) 

Terrestrial  Celestial Travellers
Gary  Husband, A Meeting Of Spirits * Interpretations Of The Music Of John  McLaughlin, (Alternity, 2006) 

Accidents  In Mutual Silence
Canvas  Solaris, Canvas Solaris, (Sensory, 2006) 

Panoramic  Long Range Vertigo
Canvas  Solaris, Canvas Solaris, (Sensory, 2006)

The  Perfect Stranger
 Lars  Boutrup, Music For Keyboards, (Excess Records, 2005) 

Agent  Orange
Lars  Boutrup, Music For Keyboards, (Excess Records, 2005) 

Ritual
Yes,  Tales From Topographic Oceans, (Atlantic, 1973)

Acceptance  - Affirming
Robert  Fripp, Love Cannot Bear - Live In The USA, (Discipline Global  Mobile, 2005) 

Easter  Sunday
Robert  Fripp, Love Cannot Bear - Live In The USA, (Discipline Global  Mobile, 2005) 

When  It Blows It Stacks
Fast  'N' Bulbous, Pork Chop Blue Around The Rind, (Cuneiform, 2005) 

THE  GPRN #1 CD: Second Life Syndrome
Riverside,  Second Life Syndrome, (InsideOut, 2005) 

Spectral Mornings
Steve Hackett, Spectral  Mornings, (Charisma,1979)

Playlist From  03/21-2006.

Shadow & Light – Radio Show 3/21/06 

 1. Pink Floyd - One Of These Days (Meddle)
 2. Secret Saucer - Astral Progeny (Element 115)
 3. Bob Lord - Into The Hive (Audio For Film TV And Games)
 4. Barclay James Harvest - Pools Of Blue (The Collection)
 5. Astronaut Wife - Superpowers (Now That 1999 Is Gone)
 6. Lift - The Toast (The Moment Of Hearing) - FORGOTTEN BAND
 7. Tears For Fears - Power (Elemental)
 8. Traffic - The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys (The Low Spark Of High Heeled B..)
9. David Bowie - TVC 15 (Station To Station)
 10. Totem - Primordial (Totem)
 11. Metallica - The Struggle Within (Metallica)
 12. Tool - Opiate (Opiate)
 13. Paranoise - Crystal Fire (Inside The Crystal Fire) - LONG SONG
 14. Brian Eno & John Cale - Lay My Love (Wrong Way Up)
 15. Robert Berry - Watcher Of The Skies (Prime Cuts)
 16. Lars Boutrup - Agent Orange (Music For Keyboards)
 17. No Nation - Pillars Of Stone (Illumine)
 18. SETI - Uncertainity (Life Signs)
 19. Änglagård - Gånglåt Från Knapptibble (After The Storm)

Playlist from Eufonia Show d. 3-4-2006.

http://tracklistings.blogspot.com/ 

Avant beats from here and there... Radio Show 

    •         All India Radio "For Angel (All India Radio vs Don Meers mix)" [track 7, 4:19] Permanent Evolutions [Inevitable, 2006]

                 superb avant electropop from Australia

    •         Pangolin Band "TRB" [track 1, 5:12] TRB [Independiente, 2005]

            avant rock pop

    •         The Roebucks "Heyhey Rock & Roll" [track 2, 3:48] The Roebucks EP [SomaRecords, 2005]

            good ol' rock&roll as we like it... from Switzerland

    •         Trio96 "Improvisation (Bradford)" [track 4, 6:48] Duo'03 [Musea/Poseidon, 2004]

            jam avant prog jazz from Japan

    •         Beardfish "Now" [disc 2, track 10, 6:38] The Sane Day [Independiente, 2005]

            avant prog from Sweden... cool!

    •         Kari Rueslåtten "Sorrow To My Door" [track 2, 3:31] Other People's Stories [The Art Records, 2005]

            our lady of the voice from Norway on an avant pop/rock record

    •         Catdesigners "Strange Little Creature" [track 3, 4:15] Strange Little Creature [GooglieMooglie, 2004]

            avant britpop from (where else?) the UK

    •         Lanterna "End Of The Tunnel" [track 1, ] Scenic/Lanterna live recordings [Independent Project/Parasol, 1997] desert rock from the US

    •         Scenic "Angelica" Scenic/Lanterna live recordings [Independent Project/Parasol, 1997] desert rock from the US...fathers of the genre

    •         F5 "Bleeding" [track 5, ] A Drug For All Seasons [Independiente, 2005]American metal

    •         Pax Romana "Moonlight Meadow" [track 5, 6:33] Trace Of Light [Wolfgang Records, 2005] Soft Prog from Finland... Yes style...check it!

    •         Lars Boutrup "Emersong" [track 6, 6:53] Music For Keyboards [Excess Records, 2005) keyboard prog from Denmark

    •         The Monorail "Day Lilies" [track 3, ] Visit Pellmell (w/People Chasing People) [Milquetoast, 2005]

NEWS - February 2006

Airplay on Aural Moon Radio:

We got airplay on the American radio station Auralmoon, that world premiere Lars Boutrup´s Music for Keyboards, along with Robert Fripp´s new CD " Soundscapes Live In The USA",Gary Husband´s new tribute CD to John McLaughlin, together with his new recording with drummer Jason Smith and Dave Carpenter.

Also the new album from the progressive Hungarian metal band Age Of Nemesis and their new album "Psychogeist" along with experimental jazz band The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey and their "The Stimeness Of Difference".

Auralmoon is the radio station, that is on FM and web radio in: Philadelphia, New Jersey and Delaware. (p.s alone Philadelphia and area there are 6 millions inhabitants)

More details about the show, check this link:

Decription of the show aired on Aural Moon Radio

Airplay Progadelic Escapades - check the cool playlist out:

Music for Keyboards is being also played on the radio Progadelic Escapades, that covers the area of New York.

Playlist Saturday Night 21-01-2006:

Progadelic Escapades Intro
 Carl groves of Salem Hill- Station ID
 Salem Hill- All fall Down-Mimi’s Magic Moment
 Genesis- Watcher Of The Skies-Foxtrot
 Iron Maiden- Hallowed Be Thy Name-Number Of The Beast
 Lars Boutrup- Agent Orange-Music For Keyboards
 No Nation- Fear Not-Illumine
 Rush YYZ-Moving Pictures
 Tempest- Hangman-The Double Cross
 The Flower Kings- Vampire’s View-Adam and Eve
 The Flower Kings- The Monster Within-Space Revolver
 Mostly Autumn- The Last Climb-Catch The Spirit
 Dream Theater- Solitary Shell-Six Degree Of Inner Turbulence
 Andy Latimer of Camel- Station ID
 Camel- Unevensong-A Live Record
 Yes- Awaken-The Word is Live
 The Tangent- GPS Culture-A Place In the Queue
 Carl Groves of Salem Hill- Speaking about Kevin Gilbert
 Kevin Gilbert- Parade/the City Of The Sun-The Shaming Of The True
 John Young Band- All Grown Up-Live At the Classic Rock Society
 The Grand Trick- Never Felt So Good-The Decadent Session
 Pat Metheny- One Quiet Night-One Quiet Night
 Protokaw- On the Eve Of the Great Decline-The Wait Of Glory
 Kansas- People Of The South Wind-Kansas Box Set
 Emerson Lake & Palmer- From the Beginning-Brain Salad Surgery

Click to see original playlist

Music for Keyboards reviewed in Europe:

Until now Music for Keyboards has gotten these reviews around Europe:

Belgium Reviews:

Rockreport - click to see review
Prog-nose -click to see review

Sweden Review:

Artrock - click and scrool..to see review

Germany Review:

Re-flexion - click to see review:

Italy Review:

Tempi Duri - click to see review

This is all from this month, we hope, we soon can bring you more good news. And everybody will get though the last winter month, before the spring.

NEWS - January 2006

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We hope you all got a happy new year - celebrating the coming of 2006. We hope 2006 will bring lots of great things for everybody!!!

Music for Keyboards reviewed in lots of different places and countries.

This year is starting rather well for Music for Keyboards it´s got some great reviews from very different places around the world. Check the news out - perhaps you´ll find a webzine from your own country.

Lars Boutrup´s Music for Keyboards has been reviewed in the Italian heavy metal webzine Tempi Duri. We are working on getting a translation. But if you are fortunate enough to be able to read Italian you can check it out here:

Tempi Duri - Lars Boutrup´s Music for Keyboards review

Music for Keyboards reviewed in Rockreport

Music for Keyboards is also reviewed short and simple in the Belgium webzine Rockreport.
Don´t sweat the Belgium part, the review is in English so stop by Rockreport and check it out.

Rockreport - Lars Boutrup´s Music for Keyboards review

Music for Keyboards reviewed in the Swedish Artrock webzine

And yes!!! Yet an other review this one is on the Swedish webzine Artrock, so anyone being able to read Swedish - check this link out:

Artrock - Lars Boutrup´s Music for Keyboards review

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