After the extended tour in the USA and Europe 1999 the band took a break after having been rehearsing, recording and touring for five years. They reemerged with a new lineup to play NEARfest 2000 festival gig with Bill Kopecky on bass
and his brother Joe Kopecky on guitar. Both superb players.
PLP was voted by audience as a top band of this festival.
After the summer 2000 tour PLP continued as the trio Magdalena, Nisse and Pär to record PLP´s third album Veni Vidi Vici with Flower Kings bass player Jonas Reingold and guitarist John Hermansen. Veni Vidi Vici also included a string orchestra as well as a choir and several other guest musicians. Veni Vidi Vici was voted as ¨Best Progressive Rock Album of the Year¨ by Norways No.1 rock mag Monster Magazine 2001.
In the fall 2001 PLP were planning for a promotion tour for the new album in Germany. But sadly due to the fact that no bass player could be available for the right period the German tour had to be cancelled. What remained was concerts in Belgium and Iceland November 2001. These gigs were very successful and a live album was released from the Iceland tapes called ¨Live in Iceland¨ spring 2002. Around this time Bill Kopecky also joined the band on a regular basis.
During spring 2002 the band took a time out as Nisse was working overtime for an entertainment company and Pär was touring with the band Kopecky in USA and Mexico. Due to the illness of Magdalena Berg the band later came to a full stop during the remainder of 2002.
2003 however saw an (shortlived) instrumental trio version of PLP going back to Mexico for a couple of wellrecieved gigs including coheadlining with legendary band FOCUS at the BAJA International Festival but apart from that things were very much put on hold until late spring 2004.
During summer 2004 plans for a new start for PLP with recordings and future concert tours became a reality. February that year also saw the release of Björn Johanssons and Pär Lindhs second duo album the wellrecieved ¨Dreamsongs from Middle Earth¨. In august PLP rehearsals were commenced in Uppsala to continue on regular basis. Also during the spring 2005 Pär had auditioned for a new drummer and found the talented Henrik Svensson who is now their regular drummer. Nisse Bielfeld and Pär however are keeping in contact for possible future cooperation futher down the line.
November 18th saw the re-release of the re-edition of Gothic Impressions with new vocals from Los Angeles based singer DIVAD on two tracks as well as added keyboards, improved drums on one song and a lot of new extraordinary choirparts throughout the album.
At the same time the work is in progress for a new studio PLP album of which two tracks were partly recorded in august 2004.
During winter 2004/2005 the band has continued to write & arrange new material as well as rehearse for upcoming concert tours.
A new CD will be released during the year of 2005. Stay tuned in for more info on this page.
PLP The Band 1995 to 1999
The Band PLP was formed in the summer 1995 as a result of the cooperation between Jocke Ramsell, Magdalena Hagberg and Pär Lindh during the 1994 sessions to record Gothic Impressions. The band then kept on rehearsing and recording during autumn 1995.
At the end of 1995 the mini CD "Rondo" was released which was PLP´s first effort as a five member group including Nisse Bielfeld on drums and Marcus Jäderholm on bass. The song Rondo was recorded at Crimsonic Label Studios and was captured live in PLP´s second rehersal as a band!
In the meantime Magdalena had been doing a wonderful job in recording the vocals for the concept album BILBO.
In 1996 this CD was released inspired by J.R.R. Tolkiens first book "The Hobbit". Pär Lindh and Björn Johansson wrote and performed the music together.
PLP´s first ever live performance was at the Gothenburg Art-Rock Festival on the 4:th of May 1996. Conserts in Sweden and Norway then followed.
1997 PLP recieved awards from Argentina for their CDs Gothic Impressions which was voted as one of the ten best prog albums of all time and Bilbo was voted as record of the year.
Because of this PLP were invited to come and play two concerts in Argentina and several TV apperances plus other media hype.
After this offers for numerous live shows started coming in.
PLP headlined the 1997 Rio Art Rock Festival and played other dates in Brazil and Argentina again.
Late 1997 saw the release of Mundus Incompertus, featuring Lindh's superb keysmanship, Hagberg's
stunning vocals, and impressive contributions from the other band members. The concert
opener "Baroque Impression No. 1" and the epic 27-minute title suite are highlights from this CD arguably PLP's best to date.
Pär Lindh Project's first live concerts in the U.S. took place in September 1998, most notably a
headline performance at ProgDay '98 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. PLP again toured the U.S. the following
spring, including performances at Progfest '99 in San Francisco, the House of Blues in
Chicago, and a cathedral concert in St. Louis. Largely recorded at the ProgDay '98 festival, the two-CD set Live in America
was released in summer 1999. This pristinely recorded set captures the instrumental virtuosity
and the tremendous energy of a Pär Lindh Project concert, and is an excellent introduction to the band.
PLP was voted #1 band by the audience at this festival.
Beginnings 1991 to 1994
In 1991 Pär Lindh and friends started The Swedish Art Rock Society at the dawn of the renaissance for Swedish progressive rock. At the first Festival arranged by the society with Pär as chairman in autumn 1991 Pär gave a speach as well as a performance all the three major progressive bands at the time from Sweden showed up Anekdoten, Änglagård and Landberk. Some of them came to perform others just to attend the event. This Art-rock festival became somewhat of a startingpoint for a new wave of exiting music emerging from this scandinavian country.
But before this event Pär had a long history in music where he´s had several careers, namely as, church organist, as a touring classical pianist, as a solo harpsichordist, as drummer, as Hammond organist, as jazz & ragtime entertainer etc. In 1977 he joined the first heavy-rock band, in his part of Sweden, called Antenna Baroque. Another of his endevaours were to form a symphonic rock trio in 1978 called Vincebus Eruptum who played several gigs in Sweden. In 1979 however it became painfully evident which way pop and rock was going so Pär decided to leave the rockscene and embark on a classical career giving recitals as pianist and harpsichordist.
In 1980 he moved to France where he stayed for almost eight years. First to study the harpsichord and the organ and then as a base for his concert tours mostly in Europe. He also toured with the Royal Swedish Chamber Orchestra for four years. Pär still views the harpsichord repertoire as some of the best music yet in musical history.
1989 he returned to Sweden determined to once again take up the banner of progressive rock." I listened back to some old recordings with ELP,YES,Genesis, King Crimson and other progressive bands from that era and just realised how very good this music was.". So Pär dusted off his old B3 Hammond organ which had been standing unused in the cellar of his parents house and started to look for a band. He found the group Manticore in a nearby town and played with them for a couple of years before moving on to build his own studio-complex for the recording of his musical compositions.
The first record to emerge from the Crimsonic Label is Pär Lindh´s innovative album "Gothic Impressions" which has influences from renaissence music, early baroque, Bach, postromanticism, aventgarde, impressionism and from the symphonic rock bands of the early seventies. The result is a unique new kind of music.
On this CD you will find some of Swedens finest artrock musicians which ensures a very high performing quality.
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