read these reviews in swedish: [läs dessa recensioner på svenska] read an online review of "idag" at "All About Jazz"  review of the new CD "idag" in a swedish newspaper

A genuine representative for a timeless musicianship Lars-Erik Norrström trio: "idag" (LJ Records) The pianist Lars-Erik Norrström is a musician who seems to love to perform his music free from all expectations. .....His rhytmic vigour and his never ending melodic flow makes him stand out as a genuine representative for a timeless mu- sicianship. On his own terms though, he is constantly working with the unexpected. .....In creativity and innovation is often inherit the ability to ig- nore limitations and obstacles. It is about going beyond the frames that tradition and habit has imposed on a dated or typical of the age artistic expression. Norrström is pursuing his cause un- compromisingly, yet with a complete conviction and an..... immovable sense of being on the right track. .....In fourteen compositions of his own, some of them as loose thematic sketches, Norrström lets his brilliant accompaniment - bass player Bruno Råberg, living and working in the US, and drummer Terje Sundby - build the rhytmic complexity up, creating dynamics and awareness that will leave few untouched. .....The trio is working with ease, listening and feeling each others ideas, adding and subtracting. There is something intuitive, almost telepathic in their playing together, fascinating in its lack of prestige and gestures. They seem to have a signalling system of their own in which every individual intention is commented by somebody else. .....It is a strange and exciting experience that takes a good amount of time to "consume". ...............Christer Nilsson ...............[Ystads Allehanda]

from a review of a concert at the Music Conservatory in Gothenburg

---- The last year saw the release of Lars-Erik Norrströms remarkable CD "Let's Take another Dream". Norrström is a very personal composer with a special sense for timbre which he applies to computers and synthesizers. It was very exciting to be able to follow Norrström's way of working in a "live" situation. As a bonus the enchanted - and pleasantly large - audience was to hear Norrström's brilliant acoustic piano playing. Norrström is undoubtedly to be regarded as one of our great profiles in music! ---- LENNART BLOMBERG, Göteborgs-Posten

review of the solo-CD "Let'¨s Take Another Dream" in Dagens Nyheter

Beautiful and ugly Lars-Erik Norrström: Let's Take Another Dream (LJ Rec / CDA) It is in the cross-draught between the acoustic piano, the synthesizers, and the pre-programmed sequencer tracks that Lars-Erik Norrström is forming his music. The scope is wide and incorporates fusion rhytms as well as sacral, medita- tative atmospheres, hyper techno- logical music of the future and desolately anacronistic piano timbres. ......The approach turns "Let's Take Another Dream" into an exciting trip where the brutally ugly and caressingly beautiful pairs to perpetually new timbres. ......Throughout evident is an attack and a spontaneity reminding of Joe Zawinul in his prime; a faith in the immediate and the improvised as a basis of bold descents or daring constructions. It is obvious that Lars-Erik Norrström doesn't fear the real odd encounters, like the confrontation between a church organ and flipper electronics in "Contradictions" or the brutal cacophony in "Hi- ding the Parachute is a Stan- dard Procedure". On the other hand, he can be almost unam- bigously rhytmic and a dancer as in "New Hope" or evergreen melodic as in "the Listener". THE FINISHING TOUCH, in "Let's Take Another Dream", though, is the majesticly visual "Celestial". Like a spaceship landing on a remote heavenly body it slowly descends through one sonic atmospheric layer after the other. Bewitching! ......JOHAN SCHERWIN ......Dagens Nyheter

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