Soma & Lil

Soma Allpass (cello, vocal) & Lil Lacy (cello, vocal)

Soma & Lil is a cello duo consisting of Soma Allpass and Lil Lacy exploring the sound of strings with effect pedals.
They have toured Scandinavia and Japan and done collaborations with among others visual artist Ulrik Heltoft (DK), Ann Sophie von Bülow (DK), Sylvia Nicolaides (GR) and Nicolas Iordanau (GR), dancer Merete Smedegaard (DK), scenographer and director Jon R. Skulberg (NO) and musician Haruhiko Okabe (JP) - exploring the ancient Japanese music tradition of Gagaku.

"Morgensol" by Soma & Lil. Animation by Charalambos Margaritis
Released in 2018

Award winning short documentary about the work and music of ‘Soma & Lil’ by Sylvia Nicolaides and Nicolas Iordanou, 2017 Denmark/Cyprus

Soma & Lil live concert at Harbo Bar, Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Here an improvisation inspired by the matter of ‘støv’ (dust) on 8th of July 2015

Music video to ‘Vinden’ - a track from the record LANDET / RUMMET

Soma & Lil in collaboration with Haruhiko Okabe (2018)
Photo by Peter Gannushkin

Soma & Lil in the performance *RESPIRATION* (2014)
Photo by Ditte Bolt

RELEASES

Soma & Lil // Live in Japan // released through Gateway 2020
Soma & Lil // LANDET / RUMMET // released though Gateway 2016

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