Lars Fiil is a Danish pianist and composer currently residing in Copenhagen, Denmark.
He released his first album as a leader in 2011, when the album Lars Fiil Quartet “Reconsideration” came out. It received great reviews and was nominated for a Danish Music Award. Lars Fiil Quartet also won the prestigious competition Young Jazz in 2010.
Since then he has released 4 albums in his own name. The latest, Under Overfladen (2020), features his septet Fiil Free, a group that gathers some of the most prolific improvisers on the european jazz scene. He has also released two widely acclaimed albums with his trio Frit Fald.
Besides his own projects, Lars Fiil is active on the Danish music scene in a number of different groups. Among others in the very popular indiejazz-outfit I Think You're Awesome.
Lars Fiil - Frit Fald II (2018)
"Lars Fiil's Free Fall was quite enigmatic due to the unpredictable, odd and mysterious way they gave shape to playful particles. They did it in a slowed down tempo with irregular steps and accents in wide spaces alternating elusive and deep sonorities. A specialty was the unorthodox use of the nay by Lis Raabjerg Kruse creating fascinating rich sounds. The overall effect was enchanting.”
- Henning Bolte (NL) - Allaboutjazz
"The gorgeousness of this CD is second to none I have heard in the past few months ... Improvisation never had it so good...”
- Sammy Stein (UK) , freejazzblog
"This is powerful and exciting music”
- Wulf Muller (DE)
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Lars Fiil - Frit Fald II (2018)
"Lars Fiil's Free Fall was quite enigmatic due to the unpredictable, odd and mysterious way they gave shape to playful particles. They did it in a slowed down tempo with irregular steps and accents in wide spaces alternating elusive and deep sonorities. A specialty was the unorthodox use of the nay by Lis Raabjerg Kruse creating fascinating rich sounds. The overall effect was enchanting.”
- Henning Bolte (NL) - Allaboutjazz
"The gorgeousness of this CD is second to none I have heard in the past few months ... Improvisation never had it so good...”
- Sammy Stein (UK) , freejazzblog
"This is powerful and exciting music”
- Wulf Muller (DE)
Fiil Free – Everything Is A Translation (2016)
“Overall this album is another proof that the young European improvising scene is alive and kicking like never before... not to be missed by any free Jazz fans anywhere in the world!”
- Adam Baruch (PL), The Soundtrack Of My Life
“Everything Is A Translation is one of those CDs that opens doors and windows in musical minds...a stroke of genius”
- Sammy Stein (UK), Jazz In Europe
“Melodies are warped and refracted, and rhythms develop a chatter that seems unattached to any known form of communication. Seriously good stuff.”
- Dave Sumner (US), Bird Is The Worm
“In the experimental part of the jazz world where loose structures and innovative improvisation comes alive, Fiil Free performs highly original music”
- Niels Overgaard (DK), Jazznyt
Lars Fiil - Frit Fald (2015)
“The interplay is lyrical and intimate most of the time, stressing every breath, move or pulse of the fragmented melodies, enjoying the contemplative, highly poetic exploration of abstract, improvised passages. It keeps its close and balanced chamber-like highly attentive dynamics. Lars Fiil is a unique composer and improviser.”
– Eyal Hareuveni, Freejazzblog (Israel)
“The music contains the ability to turn complexity into simple and pure beauty, the continued exploration in crystalline melodies far from cliché.”
– Vincenzo Roggero, allaboutjazz (IT)
“They create an abstract kind of chamber music where every nuance of the instrument is explored in carefully crafted sound poems. It is a bold direction Lars Fiil has taken with Frit Fald where he balances on the edge of form while still retaining a clear sense of musical purpose. This is music that whispers in the wilderness without getting lost.”
– Jakob Bækgaard, allaboutjazz (DK)
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