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Larski

Music makes my heart beat in sync!

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Larski was born in 1968 on the beautiful and historically rich Island of Malta, in a military hospital at Mtarfa.
Lived his youthful and teenage years in the suburb of Sliema.
Fascinated as he was by music, by the age of 10 years, he started exploring music more in depth when his father gave him a little toy keyboard. From than onwards he never looked back. Starting by playing back music which he heard on TV and radio.
During the early 80's he started to take great interest in Ska, Reggae and Punk music, especially British 2-Tone Ska.
Larski is a self taught musician & composer. His old friend Toni Sant once tried to teach him some music & theory, (and Larski is very grateful), but he soon realised that he's too nervous, but, most of all, he hates theories. “Practical music or nothing!”. Anyway, so he cannot read or write a musical score, but as a natural born musician/composer, he enjoys himself creating music more than anything. To be more precise, he declares that music is a vital part of his bloodstream and nervous system and without it he feels completely empty and lost. Music forms the fundamentals of his soul. “It keeps the blood pumping constantly into my veins”.
Larski formed part of an electro/alternative band, at Tigne barracks, called The Joy Circuit back in 1986-88. Highly influenced by bands such as Depeche Mode, Japan, Art of Noise, Kraftwerk, Devo and many other New Wave and electronic bands.
The Joy Circuit was formed by Jody Fiteni on vocals, Kevin O'Neill on drums & programmable percussion, Jon Debattista keyboards and Larski also keyboards. Jon, was replaced by another keyboardist named Roger Micallef early in 1987. They played live several times, particularly with Toni Sant's popular band, Artwork.
After the split in 1988 , the other band members, Kevin, Jody and Roger, formed other bands, especially Goth Rock bands (Prinz Eugene, Dance the Ghost and The Ophidian Twin) but instead of doing just the same, Larski decided to hibernate, and for a very long time indeed!
Larski still continued to make music but just for fun, as a hobby and for his own pleasure. During this time, back in the early 90’s, he started to experiment musically with his first computer, which was a very modified Amiga 500.
During 1994/95 he worked on various music projects with Jody Fiteni and his Australian cousin Damian Paris.
In 1999 he made his first debut in a local festival by making the music for a song by the name of "Devastazzjoni" (Devastation), lyrics by Joe M. Farrugia and sang by Dominic Cini, for the festival ‘Fl-Ghaqda l-Melodija’. It placed 3rd by Jury votes and 1st place by the audience votes. This song was about the ‘Um El Faroud’ tragedy which happened at Malta Drydocks back in 1995. Immediately afterwards, he vanished once again for another 6 years.
Larski composed the music for several theatrical comedies & plays, including Madame X, which was staged at Malta's Manoel National Theatre in 2006. He also made several musical arrangements for veteran Maltese singer Enzo Gusman and composed the music for the last 2 seasons of the very popular TV episodes of "Dejjem Tieghek Becky", including the opening theme.
Lately he finished refurbishing his new home recording studio. He just finished the music for a promo. Now he started to compose the music for a new TV series by the name of “Tracesland” a rollDdice production, starting soon on One TV. He also just started working on the opening score and incidental music for KC, a new romantic comedy TV series, starting next October on TVM.

The Ophidian Twin
..Ggantija Neolithic Temples
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/2/2007
Band Website: myspace.com/larskistudio
Band Members:Mark Ellul - LARSKI

Influences: Ska-2Tone (Madness, The Specials, The Beat, the Selecter, Bad Manners, Prince Buster & Body Snatchers)

Punk (The Clash, Sex Pistols, Crass, Adam Ant and The Exploited)

Goth & Alternative Rock (THe Mission, Sisters of Mercy,The Cult, Fields of the Nephilim, Bauhaus, All About Eve, Depeche Mode, Killing Joke, The Cure, The Smiths, The Damned, Paradise Lost, Dead Can Dance, Echo & The Bunnymen, Scream Silence, Within Temptation, Lacuna Coil, Cocteau Twins, The Church, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Stranglers, Simple Minds, New Model Army)

Electronic & New Wave (Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre, Human League, Yazoo, Soft Cell, Japan, Ultravox, Howard Jones, Spandau Ballet, OMD, Visage,

Classical (Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Johann Strauss, Giuseppe Verdi, Antonio Vivaldi)

Medieval, Celtic, Contemporary & Soundtrack (Clannad, Enya, Iona, Hans Zimmer, Vangelis, Loreena McKennitt, Ennio Morricone, Era, Mike Oldfield, Angelo Branduardi, Yanni)

Ancient & Medieval history, legends & Mythology (Malta's history, Knights Hospitallers, King Arthur, the Knights Templar, the Celts, Gothic Art & Architecture)

Astronomy, Theories of Relativity, Time & Space, Time Travel. Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Sir Isaac Newton, Isaac Asimov and Leonardo Da Vinci.
Sounds Like: Heavy Celtic, Medieval & Gothic influences.
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The Order of Malta
..Knights Spectacular 1565 - Malta
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My Blog

Studio Refurbishment

At the moment, I'm very (VERY) busy. Actually I'm in the process of upgrading my studio environment. I'm doing most of the work such as woodwork, painting, plastering etc, mys...
Posted by Larski on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:21:00 PST