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Mattias "IA" Eklundh
Mattias "IA" Eklundh is the lead guitar player of Swedish power trio Freak Kitchen. He has received much attention from the guitar community for his skilled and highly unconventional style of guitar playing. His music is very distinct, as it is both complicated and playful at the same time.
Outside of Freak Kitchen, Mr. Eklundh has recorded several solo albums, and made appearances as a guest musician for Swedish heavy metal bands like Evergrey and Soilwork. His two Freak Guitar solo albums are released on Steve Vai's Favored Nations label, and include drawings and other artwork by friend Anders Nyberg. In 2005, he grouped with Swedish bass guitarist and composer Jonas Hellborg in the Jonas Hellborg Trio alongwith drummer Niclas Campagnol and played their first gig in Mumbai, India and followed with a tour of India.
Mattias IA EklundhHe also annually hosts and teaches at the Freak Guitar Camp. Mattias Eklundh endorses Caparison Guitars, who make his signature Apple Horn guitar.
Mattias "IA" Eklundh : The Road Less Traveled
Electric Guitar
A new release by Swedish guitarist Mattias IA Eklundh. It's a six-string tour-de-force of insane explorations of sound that consistently presses the musical envelope. Crammed with 23 jaw-dropping tracks, all displaying Eklundh's imagination, seasoned versatility and fiery virtuoso technique, Freak Guitar-The Road Less Traveled is like nothing you've ever heard before.
Mattias "IA" Eklundh : Freak Guitar
Electric Guitar
Sweden's Mattias IA Eklundh's beefy solo-effort Freak Guitar is a monumental, six-stringed roller-coaster ride. Eklundh's personal tongue-in-cheek description, "...an overlong overkill in every aspect, intensive as hell, instrumental, plain stupid and recorded in a bathroom without any budget at all..."