LARSEN
Avant // ITALY
Biography
Since 1995 Larsen, from Torino Italy, has released 19 full length albums and 4 eps, which got remarkable worldwide press, and performed all over Europe, UK and North America. Collaborations with such artists as Johann Johannsson, Michael Gira, Martin Bisi, Lustmord, Deathprod, Nurse With Wound, Z’EV, Baby Dee, Julia Kent, sci-fi icon Christine Schell, Paul Beauchamp, Lori Goldston plus the project XXL (aka Xiu Xiu + Larsen) also stand out on their record.
In 2008 legendary dub-diva Little Annie (a.k.a. Annie Anxiety Bandez) joined the band as lead singer and lyricist appearing on “La Fever Lit”, “Cool Cruel Mouth” and on the related tours. 2016 sees the band representing itself as instrumental unit with a new album “Of Grog Vim” (featuring special guest Thor Harris from Swans). A new Larsen EP “Tiles” featuring Annie and a new XXL “Puff O’Gigio” album came out in late 2018. “Arrival Vibrate”, a conceptual tribute to their friend Z’EV featuring a remix by John Duncan, was released in October 2019 followed by “A Chronicle” the soundtrack for the photo book “Meiwo” by visual artist/photographer/performer Jacopo Benassi, a collaborative project winner of the Witty Books “Ear-Eye” 2021 award.
2022 saw the release of “Golden Leaf” a collaboration with sound artist Alessandro Sciaraffa, staged as a performative installative ritual in few selected venues.
Over the latest years the band has been taking the collaboration with Jacopo Benassi on stage with the performance “Light is Life” (to be documented by a live album currently being mixed), featured in Little Annie’s album “With” (Cold Spring Records, 2025) and joined forces with founding member of the legendary 4AD post punk band Rema-Rema Gary Asquith and Michael Allen to perform live their historical EP “Wheel In The Roses” for the first time since 1981, to a sold out audience at Seeyousound festival 2023. The XXL piece “Welcome To My World” appeared in the movie “Relay” (2025) by director David Mackenzie featuring Riz Ahmed and Lily James.
DECALCOMANIA – New Album 2026
Decalcomania is the 20th album by the Italian experimental cult band Larsen and was born out of a series of musical sketches then produced in their final form by William Basinski who also played saxophone on some of thetracks.
The resulting 5 pieces showcasing lounge, ambient, dub, electro as well as “classic“ Larsen vibes and lyrics written by Little Annie surprised the band themselves.
The album was recorded by regular band collaborator Paul Beauchamp in Torino, Italy, mixed by Gary Thomas Wright in Los Angeles and mastered by James Plotkin in NYC.
Decalcomania is also the 1st album by Larsen on Erototox Decodings following releases on Important Records and Michael Gira’s Young God Records and the final one of the former line-up with historical member Roberto Maria Clemente
