"Karl Lundeberg is a musical alchemist.. his music swirls like a magical brew in a beaker." -- Washington Post
"...haunting, compelling music." -- Los Angeles Times
"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
"Secret Stories is a muscular and emotionally rewarding album....Karl Lundeberg has lent the record some of his prettiest melodies to date" -- Boston Phoenix
"Karl Lundeberg leads a somewhat daring musical anthropological expedition...and does it with both sensitivity and authority." -- New York Daily News
"A beautiful, and uniquely personal music which touches the listener." -- Aftenposten (Oslo)
"Karl Lundeberg's music invites listeners to close their eyes and mentally join him in one port of call or another." -- Mix Magazine
"Although loosely considered jazz, Karl Lundeberg has expanded the concept beyond any traditional definition of the term. A refreshing jazz/classical/world music blend that transcends the generic sound of so much today." -- Christian Science Monitor
"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
"Karl Lundeberg's brave and exciting music for American Repertory Theater's production of The Changeling, directed by Robert Brustein, has proved to be a most effective and unusual match, capturing a hallucinatory chemistry." -- Downbeat Magazine
"Freewheeling, exhuberant music that dances with energy and inventiveness...a world of new sounds" -- Philadelphia Inquirer
"Karl Lundeberg covers a lot of bases very nicely" -- New York Newsday
"Full Circle took the audience by storm and were obliged to play two encores following the thunderous applause" -- El Pais (Madrid)
"Karl Lundeberg's music for Eric Overmeyer's new musical In a Pig's Valise is terrific!" -- Baltimore Sun
"Karl Lundeberg's symphonic tone poem The Forest is moody....wonderfully meandering dark music suddenly alternates with elvishly playful detail." -- Boston Globe
"Karl Lundeberg has written the only musical I know which sounds like Steely Dan" -- Washington Post
"Karl Lundeberg's music can be reflective and contemplative one moment, bracing and joyous the next...full of shimmering arrangements and multi-layered melodies." -- Boston Herald
"Karl Lundeberg's music took me to Patagonia thru Beirut, or was it the North Pole? I went somewhere I've never been before." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Together with American bandleader and composer Karl Lundeberg, legendary producer Liminha has struck a rich vein of gorgeous melodies, other worldly soundscapes and gently percolating rhythms...music for daydreaming as well as dancing!" -- O Globo (Rio de Janeiro)
"...an aural cloud that fit the evening like a well tailored shroud. Karl Lundeberg's music clangs and clashes, pulsates and trails eerily disembodied echoes, the equivalent of voices from the darkest side of the moon." -- Boston Globe
"Karl Lundeberg's score for Sir Peter Hall's production of Romeo and Juliet bathes the stage with a golden wash of baroque/world music transporting us instantly to another time and another place." -- Los Angeles Times
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