Mattias IA Eklundh - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Well, I am a bearded Swedish boy who play strange, home-brewed, Viking guitar. I play guitar and sing in Freak Kitchen and in between recording and touring with the band I compose unorthodox Freak Guitar music. I also play with maestro Jonas Hellborg . Thatâ€™s about it.
Freak Guitar - Growing Your Own Moustache Vol. 1!
From the Freak Guitar Camp archives comes a double download tuition album called Freak Guitar - Growing Your Own Moustache Vol. 1. Having received tons of e-mails and questions over the years from dedicated guitar players wondering where to get backing tracks to practice to I decided to dig deep in the vaults and pick the best, nastiest, most challenging camp tunes for a beefy collection of wild songs that will keep your fingers busy for a long time to come.
There is one version of every track with guitar, as I play it (CD 1), and one without for you to jam to; "grow your own moustache" so to speak (CD 2). Along each song comes a PDF-file to print. The music is written down in both traditional and tablature. There is also a CD-cover available for print and an A4 back and front and back page that you can use for the notation.
You get to learn odd time signatures, monstrous tuplets, loads of tapping, picking, string skipping, harmonics, wild riffs, reduction, finger picking, arpeggios, exotic modes and then some. Not for the squeamish.
Freak Guitar - Growing Your Own Moustache Vol. 1 is available from the freakkitchen.com online store this very moment.
Download if you dareâ€¦
Tracklist:
1. Disco Diabolique
2. The Masala Conspiracy
3. Freak Guitar Camp 2005 Anthem
4. From the Desk of Dr. Benson Ukulele
5. What Kind of Whammy Pedal Do You Use?
6. Fifth Arpeggio Pseudo Punk
7. Circle of Wankers
8. For Those About to Camp
9. Ugly Side of You
10. Jacobi's Floor
11. Whole Lotta Whole Tone
12. Fat Chance
13. Freak Guitar Camp 2004 Anthem
14. Hateful Little Beatle
15. Bjorn Borg Deodorant
16. Church Mode Mood
17. Zoo Me
18. Wake Up and Smell the Species
19. Gringo Starr
20. Chromium Cheese
21. Freak Guitar Camp 2003 Anthem
22. Eureka! I am Happy
Click to order Freak Guitar - The Road Less Traveled .
Click to order Freak Guitar .

My Interests

Music, books, movies and my furry family.

Beethoven's Triple Concerto in June performed on guitar!

I'd like to meet:

Animation and site drawings by Anders Nyberg

Music:

You bet!

Movies:

Anything with David Cronenberg, Woody Allen or Darren Aronofsky.

Television:

24, Carnivale, West Wing, Prison Break, NYPD Blue, Without a Trace, Medium.

Books:

Biographies of any kind.

Heroes:

Igor Stravinsky.

My Blog

Land of the Freaks VI & VII - new blogs!

New blogs from the Metal meets Brass concert, the Mats/Morgan All Star Team at the Melloboat, the Frankfurt Musik Messe and a short Freak Guitar Clinic trip to Split, Croatia. Read Land of the Freaks ...
Posted by Mattias IA Eklundh on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:27:00 PST

Freak Guitar Clinics

Plenty of Freak Guitar Clinics coming up:16th of February - House of Metal, Umeå, Sweden21st of February - Örebro, Sweden26th of February - Västerås, Sweden27th of February - Kungsbacka, Sweden12 - 15...
Posted by Mattias IA Eklundh on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:38:00 PST

Freak Guitar Camp 2008 Registration Time!

It's time to register for Freak Guitar Camp 2008! Scandinavian Week 21st - 26th of JulyFirst International Week 28th of July - 2nd of AugustSecond International Week 5th - 10th of August...
Posted by Mattias IA Eklundh on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:34:00 PST

FREAK GUITAR CAMP 2008

FREAK GUITAR CAMP 2008 Registration in February!Happy to announce the dates for Freak Guitar Camp 2008:Scandinavian Week 21st - 26th of JulyFirst International Week 28th of July - 2nd of August...
Posted by Mattias IA Eklundh on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 06:40:00 PST

New Freak Guitar CD in the works

Working on a double Freak Guitar album, one electric disc, one acoustic. It will take time before it's completed since I am also preparing tons of other freaky things (live-DVD, the next Freak Kitchen...
Posted by Mattias IA Eklundh on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:03:00 PST

Land of the Freaks

Freak Kitchen are working on a new album, entitled Land of the Freaks! Read the recent blog Land of the Freaks (with tales from the US, UK and Italy as well)....
Posted by Mattias IA Eklundh on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:00:00 PST

Metal meets Brass - sneak preview

March 1st 2008 Freak Kitchen will kick butt together with the fabulous Linköping Jazz Orchestra at swell venue Konsert & Kongress in the city of Linköping, Sweden. Check out a sneak preview ...
Posted by Mattias IA Eklundh on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:13:00 PST

Autumn Leaves - new blog at freakkitchen.com!

New blog on freakkitchen.com! Read Autumn Leaves.
Posted by Mattias IA Eklundh on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:12:00 PST

Favored Nations Blog

Thrilled to be guest writing on Favored Nations MySpace blog.
Posted by Mattias IA Eklundh on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:48:00 PST

Blog Un-hacked

BLOG UN-HACKEDWTF!!! You turn your back for one second (or rather get on one lousy cross-atlantic flight) and what happens? Some asshole hacks the site...Apparently, this was not a targeted atta...
Posted by Mattias IA Eklundh on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:18:00 PST