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Kristoffer Gildenlöw

Rocking With Ian Parry

About Me

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I was born 1978 in Eskilstuna, Sweden.
I started playing the bass guitar at the age of 14 and less than a year later, I was asked to join Swedish prog-metal band 'Pain of Salvation'.
After recording six full albums and one DVD we have now gone separate ways (early 2006).
I have also recorded and toured with Lana Lane (US), Erik Norlander (US), Dark Suns (D) and Rocket Scientists (US) and done additional recordings for bands such as Arcana (S), Chirra Niva (NL), Harmony (S) and Implosion (Gr).
My new band DIAL released its debut album in May last year.
We now have our first official Music video up
Please visit our official MySpace page
Now I've started to take a good look at my upcoming solo album.
This is something that's been hanging around for quite some time now and it's finally time to get going. At this point, I've recorded four songs that be on my first promo-demo. Left to do is vocals and guitar solos. I've had some help from Dirk Bruinenberg (DIAL, Patrick Rondat, Elegy and many more) to lay down the drums for these songs and I'm going to have Ruud Jolie (Within Temptation) to do some of the guitar solos for me.As soon as the songs are mixed I will put them all up here on my MySpace page for you to hear.
Peace!
Kris
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The Music Video from the song "Beautiful" can be viewed here:
DIAL's debut album 'Synchronized' was released through Prog Pock Records
Go to Prog Pock Records to order your copy now
You can also order the album at Amazon.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/5/2006
Band Website: kristoffergildenlow.com
Band Members: Solo:
Just little me!
Electric Bass (fretted, fretless, piccolo. 4, 5, 6 and 12 stringed)
Electric and Acoustic Guitars.
Vocals, Upright Bass, Cello, Keyboards, Mandolin and Drums

Basses and guitars endorsed by Mayones
www.mayones.com

Dial:
Liselotte Hegt: Vocals, Bass, Keyboards
Rommert van der Meer: Acoustic and Electric guitars
Me again: Basses, Electric and Acostic Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals, Mandolin, Cello and Double Bass.

More information and sound samples can be found at DIAL's MySpace page:MySpace.com/thebanddial

Additional musicians on 'Synchronized':
Dirk Bruinenberg: Drums and Percussion
Devon Graves: additional Vocals and Guitars.
Eugenia Lakkey: Choire
Joy de Jong: Sousaphone

I play and fully endorse Mayones basses and guitars.
Please pay them a visit

I also use Line 6 guitars and amplifications.
Influences: Anything and everything that life and death has to offer!

When it comes to bass, there are only two true bass heroes:

Derek Smalls

and Sgt. Floyd Pepper

Sounds Like: My solo music is inspired by everything I've been through.
Different music styles, different feelings and emotions
I like to put them all in there and see what comes out of it.

DIAL also bring a lot of influences into one big, deep tasty bowl of soup.
We're doing all we can to create our own sound but you'll probably hear clear influences from some of the following acts:
Pink Floyd, Kate Bush, Souxie and the Banshees, Porcupine Tree, Green Carnation, Rush, Massive Attack, Tori Amos, Dive, Queen and many, many more.



Record Label: Prog Rock Record (DIAL)
Type of Label: None

My Blog

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... than a day to go on the first auction....
Posted by Kristoffer Gildenlöw on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:02:00 PST

Item 1 Promotion Package

First item out on the auction is a Promotion Package.Nothing very exclusive actually as it’s all been give-away-free-stuff, but all items collected together for the last eleven years might be so...
Posted by Kristoffer Gildenlöw on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:21:00 PST

PoS-Outlet IV

So, it is time to begin!!!I'd like to make a test-run first to see if MySpace nad Blog is the right way to go about with this auction.I've decided to do so, starting up with the Promotion package.(mor...
Posted by Kristoffer Gildenlöw on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:33:00 PST

Musical Update

Greetings to you all!A short update on the musical progress.I’ve just send away the demo-tracks to Wudstick (solo, Ayreon) for some  nice vocal tracks.Erna auf der Haar (Ian Parry) will com...
Posted by Kristoffer Gildenlöw on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:20:00 PST

PoS Outles III

Hello everyone!A short update.I’m not quite done yet.I have some stuff that I haven’t decided about yet, whether it would be wise to part from it.Some of it is too valuable and personal to...
Posted by Kristoffer Gildenlöw on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:27:00 PST

PoS-outlet II

So, I guess I underestimated the time it would take me to go through all my stuff, merchandise, posters and photos.It’s been a pleasant trip down memory lane of eleven years, six albums, one DVD...
Posted by Kristoffer Gildenlöw on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:04:00 PST

PoS-outlet

Greetings!From day one, I have saved almost everything I could get my hands on regarding PoS and everything around it (from tickets, flyers and posters to backstage passes, strings and recordings).Til...
Posted by Kristoffer Gildenlöw on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:57:00 PST

Frankfurt Update

Yesterday I took a trip to Frankfurt to view the yearly Music Fair. As always: loud, noisy, crowded but simply wonderful. I didn’t perform this year so I had the whole day to just walk around ...
Posted by Kristoffer Gildenlöw on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:01:00 PST

Show in Bergkeller, Reichenbach (DE) cancelled

I just got word that this weekends' show in Reichenbach, DE is cancelled. This due to a long time virus infection that Ian Parry has been struggling with. Two weeks ago we had to cancel the show in ...
Posted by Kristoffer Gildenlöw on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:51:00 PST

So what the heck is happening with my music???

Well, lately I've been very busy with rehearsing the material for the Consortium  Project Tour with Ian Parry so my own music had to step aside a bit... again... This weekend I've been pretty ...
Posted by Kristoffer Gildenlöw on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:44:00 PST