"URUK" - chamber music by the "enfant terrible" of Swedish contemporary music, Martin Larson. This recording will make some great noice when it reaches the CD players of the Swedish music ESTABLISHMENT! Lookout for a CD in DVD cover, containing some of the very finest musicians and exiting chamber music! John Ehde, violoncell Carl-Axel Dominique, piano George Kentros, violin Åsa Åkerberg, violoncell Sara Hammarström, flute Mårten Landström, piano Stockholmskvartetten, string quartet Jean-Luc Richardoz, violin Staffan Björklund, piano Linnékvintetten, brass quintet Stockholm Saxophone Quartet 110 Chorists Ilona Jánky Práda, piano You need Real Audio to listen to this file: Larson: from "Trail/Tree" (Jean-Luc Richardoz/Staffan Björklund) Listen to all nosag CDs on the air: "YESS music" with the whole CD-catalogue of nosag records

THE CRITICS: DN: "(---)If one wants to listen to Martin Larson’s music without preconceived notions, one can skip the thick text booklet that comes with the chamber music CD "Uruk." Both the CD cover, with Larson in a black leather jacket against a backdrop of the cradle of learning, Florence, and the manifesto-like texts with their attacks on all that even has a whiff of establishment, try hard to create a picture of an enfant terrible in Swedish art music. "The music can go to hell! Art can go to hell! YOU can go to hell! / ... / YOU are always wrong and I am always right” is an example of Larson’s rhetoric. But he who expects the music to sound extremely avant-garde, ugly, punkish, or destructive, is left there with empty ears. On the other hand, Larson is hardly trying to fulfill expectations. Here one can find both silly humor and an elegiac, almost Romantic tone, built with relatively simple means. "Two encores," written for the peärls before swïne experience, mixes noisy siren glissandi with fragments taken from music history. A trashing and a homage at the same time. And in a video version of "The Hum-drum Saxman´s bacon-rap and burgers," a short spoken chorus on the text “I am a Lapp and I have my reindeer,” one can see Per Hedlund from the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet rap away with a tailor’s scissors (it’s possible). Larson’s more serious side spans from more tightly strung lines in the nocturnal "Thiraxe Kires" for cello and piano, played with concentration by John Edhe and Carl-Axel Dominique, to borrowed soft Romantic styles in the Satie pastiche "To Katarina." Meditative, but hardly radical." Aftonbladet: "(---)If you o not know that the composer of URUK is Martin Larson, you won´t get to know it as nothing on the CD, in the film, or the booklet manifesto reveals his identity. But the CD is unusually refreshing. The String Quartet No.1 is very great music and Brass Quintet releases a joking, ironic face. With his attitude he is a slugger in the backstabbing musical life. He as a whole is an adjustment problem. But NOT his music!"