
"Larval is Bill Brovold's current musical group, with an everchanging line-up of some of Detroit's best musicians. The new CD with pieces composed for strings and horns as well as the guitars, bass and drums is a powerful mixture of beautiful, quiet, thought-provoking melodies often building into dark, dense, pounding, run-for-your-life compositions. Brovold received his B.F.A. from The School of Visual Arts in N.Y.C. (1982) There he was involved in creating sound for performance artists and film makers while studying painting. He was a guitarist with the Rhys Chatham Ensemble from 1983 to 1988 as well as a founder of E.I.E.I.OH! and The Zen Vikings."
With roots that extend to the downtown NYC avant-garde scene, Larval transforms a multipronged guitar attack into a mesh of the experimental and the accessible. A massive lineup reconfiguration has seen more recent performances under the name the Larval Orchestra, wherein an auxiliary of avant-class... [MORE] By Greg Baise 5/5/1999
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