Outsight Radio Interview:  This 18 March 2007 interview with Bill Brovold explores the fluid nature of the group's definition over time and the protean nature of its organic sound. This interview just followed release of the 2-CD set Surviving Death / Alive Why? (Cuneiform Rune 248 / 249). The creative principal behind the walls-of-sound approach is guitarist, composer, producer, and visual artist Bill Brovold. Larval’s fifth release is a studio recording, Surviving Death, and a live CD, Alive Why?. Disc 1: Surviving Death is Larval’s newest studio recording, is one of the most diverse Larval CD to date. Disc 2: Alive Why?, documents Larval’s legendary live show.
Larval - Surviving Death / Alive Why?
The CD contains live recordings made between 1999 and 2006 at four different concerts, including a 2006 gig at the Ferndale, Michigan club, Xhedos; a 2002 show at Ann Arbor’s Kerrytown Concert House; and concerts in 1999 and 2001 at Cleveland, Ohio’s Beachland Ballroom. It features performances by Brovold, Gregg Courtney, and Toby Summerfield on guitar; Thor Brovold, James Ilgenfritz III, and Alfred Turner on bass; Gus Brovold, Luke Mcauley, and Jason Shearer on saxes; Ryan Kush, Scott Olzak, and Marko Smith on drums; and Kurt Zimmerman on violin.