Mats Edén

Genre: Acoustic / Experimental / Folk
Location Harlösa, Skåne län, Sv
Profile Views: 56180
Last Login: 9/23/2012
Member Since 2/25/2007
Website www.matseden.se
Record Label ECM, Amigo, Xource, Giga, Footprint
Type of Label Indie
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For more music, check out my You Tube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/maed57..... Shorted English version from ECM homepage(http://www.ecmrecords.com/Background/Background_1660.php) .... "Virtuoso instrumentalist, songwriter and composer Mats Edén is one of the defining figures of the new Swedish folk music. Edén offers dedication to some of the fiddlers who have preceded him, legends Lejsme Per Larsson, masters of the old school of playing like Torleiv Björgum, and also near-contemporaries like Anders Rosén. Rosén was one of the players who, in the 1970s, revived the tradition of making abundant use of resonating strings. Mats Edén took this concept one step further with the development of a fiddle with five sympathetic strings: he called this instrument the "bordunfiol", or the drone-fiddle. Värmland's geographical proximity to Norway has encouraged Edén to look over the borders at related traditions. Edén also studied in Norway, taking classes in composition with Lasse Thoresen and Olav Anton Thommessen, gaining the theoretical and practical knowledge that would enable him to establish his own slant on contemporary composition, while making use also of his knowledge of Scandinavian folk tradition." I am now half time teaching folk music at the Academy of Music in Malmö and half time freelance musician and composer. For more info about the folk music departement at Malmö Academy of Music: http://www.mhm.lu.se/ Some of the records.. Struling AMCD 728.. Avtryck AMCD 746.. Läckerbiten AMCD 733 - nominated to GRAMMY.. Niss Kerstin - TRÄD. AMCD 739.. Milvus - with Jonas Simonson and The Cikada String Quartet ECM 1610.. Ellika Frisell med Sven Ahlbäck och Mats Edén Tokpolska GCD-36.. Nordan - with Lena Willmark/Ale Möller ECM 1536 GRAMMY AWARD Agram - with Lena Willemark/Ale Möller ECM 1610.. Vägen In - with Tina Quartey, AMCD 755.. Selection of my work at Swedish Music Information Centre .. Scores and parts at: www.mic.stim.se filed under: Contemporary classical Member of FST - Society of Swedish Composers SKAP - The Swedish Society of Popular Music Composers Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
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