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A Love Supreme

by Lars Larsson // Gunnar Backman

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1.
Acknowledgement 11:08
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2.
Resolution 09:17
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3.
Pursuance 07:32
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4.
Psalm 09:06
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Lars Larsson // Saxophone, Synths , Programming , Arrangements
Gunnar Backman // Virtual Guitar , Guitar Synths , Live Loops


Recorded 2017 & 2020
at Hönshuset Studios
by Lars Larsson
and at Brakophonic Studios Europe
by Gunnar Backman

Mix & Mastering
Lars Larsson

Cover art by Lena-Maria Stigsdotter “Hope”


From www.freejazzblog.org/2021/06/guitar-duos-part-2-spontaneous.html

Lars Larsson and Gunnar Backman - A Love Supreme (Simlas, 2021) ***½

Guitar and Saxophone. Before we veer out of the electronics, let's talk about (virtual) guitarist Gunnar Brakeman and saxophonist Lars Larsson's A Love Supreme. I suspect naming a recording as such could quickly set up opposing sides: there will be those who hear the music through the lens of John Coltrane and only hear it in comparison to the original, and others who hear the music filtered through the influence of the original. It is best to do the latter here, and in fact, one could be tempted to do the same with Backman's instrument. He pays the virtual fretted guitar, which I would be hard pressed to describe except that the duo used Abelton Live to create an actual musical environment that sounds more like a full band than a duo. The opening track, 'Acknowledgement' evolves into a thick groove with a shredding virtual guitar, which is where the second track 'Resolution' also goes. It seems like Larsson's role is often to provide a connection to the original, whereas Backman takes us deep into a sonic epiphany. There is a lot of incidental sound as well, misty shrouds wafting through underground tech-dystopias, like on the intro 'Pursuance.' In the middle of the track, after a long attractively abrasive guitar heavy sound collage, the saxophonist takes a lengthy, melodic solo, his tone refined. The wisdom of calling your album 'A Love Supreme' is debatable, but the concept employed here, seeing each movement of the original as a stand alone piece to then reshape acknowledges the sincere indebtedness the world has to Coltrane's masterwork, as well its enduring malleability as a source of inspiration.




A Love Supreme
This project was started in 2017 by Gunnar Backman and me and only by now it’s been completed. It’s not that the project has occupied all the time for three years, but as usual, something else that is prioritized at the moment emerges.
All arrangements are made in Ableton Live. I have not slavishly used Coltrane's music but have taken the liberty to change quite a lot. The feeling of the music as a single long suite is not here but the songs are more like stand-alone objects. I think I had that intention in the beginning but I let go of that idea.
The original is always better and I have never had the ambition to "improve" the music that Coltrane wrote 56 years ago. A Love Supreme is an album that has meant a lot to me as an improvisational musician and this is my contribution to pay tribute to my hero John Coltrane.

Lars Larsson

A Love Supreme
Detta projekt påbörjades 2017 av Gunnar Backman och mig och först nu har det blivit klart. Det är inte så att detta projekt upptagit all tid i tre års tid utan det är väl som vanligt, att det dyker upp annat som prioriteras för tillfället.
Alla arrangemang är gjorda i Ableton Live. Jag har inte slaviskt använt mig av Coltrane's musik utan har tagit mig friheten att ändra på rätt mycket. Känslan av musiken som en enda lång svit finns inte här utan låtarna är mer som fristående objekt. Hade väl den intentionen i början skulle jag tro men släppte den idén.
Originalet är ju alltid bättre och jag har aldrig haft ambitionen att ”bättra på” musiken som Coltrane skrev för 56 år sedan. A Love Supreme är en skiva som betytt otroligt mycket för mig som improvisationsmusiker och detta är mitt bidrag till att hylla min hjälte John Coltrane.

Lars Larsson


An album I listened to a lot in my youth.
It’s a privilege to able to contribute in some form
to these compositions that meant so much for the music
both at the time and the times to come.
Without hearing the original music I might have ended up in a different place
musically and otherwise.


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released August 15, 2022

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