This is a picture of one of my favorite musicians of recent times and I. Mattias IA Eklundh is the leader of the band Freak Kitchen, a trio that has been around for over ten years and is PURE GENIUS. Besides being an unique technician in his instrument, being able of coming up with new things in his instrument, which gets harder and harder every day, Mattias is a GREAT singer and songwriter, always coming up with clever lyrics and really amazing rhythms (some of his ideas are surely that whacked since he is a drummer).
Found about Freak Kitchen pretty late, little over two years ago... I remembered the name, but when I finally heard the music (Thanks Nanou Campos :-) ), they got a fan for life. After having seen these guys live a couple of times and having Mattias himself share the stage with Adagio over the last year, the music grows more and more infectious. On top of all that, he is a super humble, intelligent and cool guy, with beautiful influences (Kiss, Zappa and dogs, besides a zillion other cool things).
Each year he puts together the cool Freak Guitar camp, where guitar players from all over the globe fly for a week or so of guitar immersion, with poretty cool guests, such as Ron Thal (Guns 'n'Roses) and Kee Marcello.
If I made one more person curious enough to check out their music, this post will have been worthwhile! All the albums are great, but "Move" was one of the last albums on the planet that I would give a solid ten to.
Cheers from Rio de Janeiro to Gottenburg!!!