About the Artist
Karl Lundeberg’s career in music, both as performer and composer, stretches the concept of eclectic and is indicative of an artist whose view of music is all-inclusive. There are few genres of music in which he has not been active and few mediums where his work has not met critical acclaim. From contemporary classical to jazz to world music to avant-garde to traditional Norwegian folk music...from performing to making records, to composing music for film, television, radio, theatre, and ballet.
A Columbia Records recording artist with his groundbreaking jazz group Full Circle, Composer-in-Residence for the Mark Taper Forum at the Los Angeles Music Center, and composer whose artistic collaborations run the gamut from John Cage to Gerry Goffin, Susan Sontag to Steve Martin, Sir Peter Hall to Sir David Hare...he has performed and/or recorded with Miroslav Vitous, Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez, Gilberto Gil, Lofty Amao (Osibisa), Magic Dick (J.Giels Band), and Billy Drewes among others.
Karl Lundeberg has consistently worked with the leading figures in each artistic medium in which he has distinguished himself. Now, with the creation of the band Fascination Curve and the album Corona Time in Amerika, he enters the world of rock music witha groundbreaking new record.
Reviews
"Karl Lundeberg is a musical alchemist...his music swirls like a magical brew in a beaker." – Washington Post
"Karl Lundeberg's hard to classify sound stands out as a refreshing and often challenging change of pace...definitely worthy of all the attention." – Billboard Magazine
"A careful blend of composition and free floating improvisation...graceful, spacious, and relaxed." – Boston Globe
"Karl Lundeberg's music invites listeners to close their eyes and mentally join him in one port of call or another." – Mix Magazine
"A rare thing indeed, a jazz/classical/world music fusion which has soul...a consistently engaging journey ranging from the earthy to the atmospheric." – Chicago Tribune