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My signature Ulv
I am very proud to present Freak Guitar Lab, my own guitar brand. Made in Sweden at the True Temperament factory. The first model is called Ulv, from Old Norse ulfr (wolf), an 8-string and a 6-string version (Ulv 8 and Ulv 6).
New store for music & downloads
In our brand new online store, you can find Freak music: vinyls, CDs and downloadable digital products. And some stylish apparel, too!
We are also taking pre-orders for the new Freak Kitchen album Everyone Gets Bloody. An extravagant 180 gram vinyl with glossy cover or a jewel case CD with 12 page booklet.
Hope to see you this summer!
GROWING YOUR OWN MOUSTACHE – Volume 10
The epic 10th (yes, 10th!) edition of the Growing Your Own Moustache series is upon us with over two hours of intricate and mind bending challenges that will push your technique, rhythm and musical awareness to the next level.
As usual, stripped versions are provided for the main tracks and each tune is thoroughly notated in the massive 104-page companion notation booklet. Also included are two long pieces to boost your improvisational skills.
If this wasn't enough, this edition includes bonus track and notation for Primality, an unexpected and marvelous collaboration in 89/16 between Mattias and the absolutely fantastic B.C. Manjunath.
Tracklist:
01. Planet Nine (15:38)
02. Planet Nine - stripped (15:38)
03. Rinse And Repeat (3:48)
04. Rinse And Repeat - stripped (3:48)
05. Terra Incognita (6:23)
06. Terra Incognita - stripped (6:23)
07. Fear Of The Day (4:18)
08. Fear Of The Day - stripped (4:18)
09. The Native Hue Of Resolution (16:25)
10. The Native Hue Of Resolution - stripped (16:25)
11. Soft Soap And Wishful Thinking (5:29)
12. Soft Soap And Wishful Thinking - stripped (5:29)
13. Flummoxed (6:50)
14. Flummoxed - stripped (6:50)
15. Not That Kind Of Bird (4:48)
16. Not That Kind Of Bird - stripped (4:48)
17. Jazz Schwein (51:14)
18. Doppelganger Dub (13:43)
Bonus notation:
19. Primality (3:12)
Freak Audio Lab
From time to time I will release music, experimental or ultra commercial, under the name Freak Audio Lab.
Freak Audio Lab is my studio, my sonic laboratory, where I manifest unorthodox combinations of notes and rhythms.
Freak Audio Lab can be a handclapping video on YouTube.
Freak Audio Lab might mutate into a touring combo in the future. You are welcome to join.
Freak Audio Lab could be a collaboration between fellow musicians around the world. Or just me.
Freak Audio Lab is music in any shape and form.
Hope you will dig it.
GROWING YOUR OWN MOUSTACHE – Volume 9
It's that time of the year again - time to kick it up yet another notch!
From the deep, dark, demanding vaults of the Freak Guitar Camp comes the ninth tuition package, containing yet another massive notation booklet and a pile of fistfuls of tracks to inspire and challenge you to grow your musical chops!
Tracklist:
01. Margin Of Error (18:02)
02. Margin Of Error - stripped (18:02)
03. Cargo Cult Parade (5:30)
04. Cargo Cult Parade - stripped (5:30)
05. Bop Equation (5:21)
06. Bop Equation - stripped (5:21)
07. Restless Meander (3:52)
08. Restless Meander - stripped (3:52)
09. The Process (9:49)
10. Synchronicity Spin - stripped (13:15)
11. Synchronicity Spin - stripped (13:15)
12. Clean Sweep (9:59)
13. Clean Sweep - stripped (9:59)
14. Stitchpunk 9 (3:39)
15. Stitchpunk 9 - stripped (3:39)
16. Wicked Web We Weave (3:40)
17. Wicked Web We Weave - stripped (3:40)
18. Aye (2:09)
Bonus notation (notation only):
19. Quad Damage
20. Koth
GROWING YOUR OWN MOUSTACHE – Volume 8
Time to level up!
The eighth download tuition package contains a massive 76-page notation booklet and a serious pile of tracks with challenging (and gratifying) built-in musical tools.
Tracklist:
01. A Reshuffling of Atoms (12:57)
02. A Reshuffling of Atoms - stripped (12:57)
03. Variation 21 (5:30)
04. Variation 21 - stripped (5:30)
05. Alien Agenda (2:30)
06. Alien Agenda - stripped (2:30)
07. The Sunless Garden (5:04)
08. The Sunless Garden - stripped (5:04)
09. Rabbit Hole Shuffle (8:12)
10. Rabbit Hole Shuffle - stripped (8:12)
11. Protesto Manifesto (9:59)
12. Protesto Manifesto - stripped (9:59)
13. Have A Peasant Fight (2:19)
14. Have A Peasant Fight - stripped (2:19)
15. The Final Konokol Countdown (4:05)
16. The Final Konokol Countdown - stripped (4:05)
17. Gee... (3:03)
Bonus notation (notation only):
18. Auto
19. Confusion To The Enemy
20. Alone With My Phone
ON — GROWING YOUR OWN MOUSTACHE VII
On is the evil twin of last year's massive track Off, only ten minutes longer and a great deal more challenging. Packed with exhilarating rhythms and unconventional techniques that will keep you occupied for quite a while.
Volume 7 of Growing Your Own Moustache also contains notation and playback versions of several tunes from Freak Guitar - The Smorgasbord and the first Art Metal album.
Freak When Spoken To
Freak Kitchen are tremendously proud to announce the release of Freak When Spoken To - The Story of Freak Kitchen (Bullet Point Publishing) by Åsa Anastasia Jonsén who spent years and years putting it together, piece by piece.
Enjoy the read!
Freaky Project – the Book
The mother of all coffee table books is here and Freak Kitchen are very much part of it! Check out Juanjo Guarnido's Freaky Project, written by Miceal Beausang-O' Griafa (foreword by Disney legend Eric Goldberg, afterword by IA), a 158 page colourful treat to drool over with an amazing insight in the passionate and painstaking work of the ground breaking Freak of the Week video.
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The book is a tremendously top notch read, take it from us! Available from Big Wow Art:
The almost twenty minutes long track Off is the flagship in the sixth volume of the Growing Your Own Moustache audio fleet.
Produced, written and recorded by IA. Splendid notation in 34 page pdf booklet by Linus "Mr. Gul" Abrahamson. Mastered by Torben Schmidt.
Slop-py-py-py-py-py-py-py-py! Sloppy! Wonderfully shot in inky 4K black and white by photographer Anders Bryngel we wanted a simple, straight band video (and song) as a first presentation of Cooking with Pagans. Hope you like it!
Freak Guitar – Growing Your Own Moustache V is beyond a massive download package crammed with thirty useful and demanding tracks, each one with guitar as IA plays it and one stripped version for you to sink your teeth into and grow your own moustache, so to speak.
The fifth volume of the popular series is designed for you to see the big picture, to add way more colours of your sonic palette, not just a pile of empty licks.
Prepare to devour! Steve Vai and Favored Nations have released my audio feast Freak Guitar - The Smorgasbord worldwide! An intense buffet with no fewer than 40 tracks, served in double disc packaging (with close to two hours worth of nutritious music!) Freak Guitar - The Smorgasbord also features a number of prominent, tasty guests: Dweezil Zappa, Fredrik Thordendal, Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, Andy Timmons, Georg "Jojje" Wadenius, Guthrie Govan, Morgan Ågren, Ranjit Barot, Kiko Loureiro, Jonas Hellborg, Selvaganesh Vinayakram and many more.
The Menu:
Disc 1
1. Amphibians Night Out
2. Musth
3. Mattias - The Beautiful Guy
4. Hells Bells
5. The Smorgasbord
6. Friedrichs Wahnbriefe
7. Sexually Frustrated Fruit Fly Flamenco
8. Daily Grind Disco March
9. Lease With an Option to Buy
10. The Swede and the Wolf
11. Mambo Italiano
12. Mind Your Step (at Schiphol Airport)
13. Crossing the Rubicon
14. That's Amore
15. Keep It in the Dojo
16. Infrared Jed
17. Peter, I Won't Drive Another Meter
18. Larvatus Prodeo
19. Blaha Blaha
20. Lullaby for Gabriel
Disc 2
1. In the Goo of the Evening
2. The Dogs of Delhi
3. Special Agent Bauer
4. Mahavishnu John
5. The Harry Lime Theme
6. Dark Matter
7. Trumpet Lesson
8. Mandur and Morgan's Camel Safari
9. Shore Thing
10. Captain Smith's Moment of Truth
11. Mah Ná Mah Ná
12. The Nigerian Gynecologist
13. 6 Rue Cordot
14. Kali Ghat
15. Safe to Remove Hardware
16. Did You Actually Pay for That?
17. Those in Badiyah
18. The Essence of Emptiness
19. Meralgia Paresthetica
20. Guano Afternoon
Keeping my Viking fingers crossed you will enjoy (and be able to digest) this beefy record! I had a ball producing it!
Musth - the first video from Freak Guitar - The Smorgasbord is shot in Kathmandu, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, New York City, Johannesburg and Brisbane.
Hells Bells! The second video from Freak Guitar - The Smorgasbord, performed on a True Temperament fret equipped Alhambra Iberia (plus Beijing hotel room doorbell, shaker and Moroccan percussion).
Blaha Blaha! The third video from Freak Guitar - The Smorgasbord is now out there, with yours truly at the age of three, doing some intense Swedish swearing!
Crooner Metal Punk! That's Amore! The fourth video from The Smorgasbord. Watch yours truly sing, dance and harass the innocent people of Rome and the Vatican in Dean Martin's timeless classic.
Amphibians Night Out is the fifth video from Freak Guitar - The Smorgasbord, entirely shot in Mulshi, India and featuring lovely frog art by Juanjo Guarnido and Anders Nyberg.
My absolutely stunning signature model from Caparison Guitars - The Apple Horn 8 (AH8)!
The Jazz Raj is a Jonas Hellborg trio recording continuing his collaboration with IA and introducing drummer Ranjit Barot.
The music is seamlessly bonding Western and Indian improvised music while avoiding the stylistic cliches that are so often the pitfalls of this type of music.
The Jazz Raj continues the tradition of the Bass/Drums/Guitar trios that Hellborg has been fronting for more than 2 decades featuring wonderful musicians such as Shawn Lane, Buckethead, Michael Shrieve and Jeff Sipe.
The tracks on the record are 2 half hour extended compostions with sections inter-related thematically using western interpretation of Indian Ragas.
It is a genre defying work, it is Jazz Metal and Indian music but primarily music for the pleasure of listening.
Out now through Bardo Records!
Got smoking leads but make uncontrollable spasms when trying to groove over, say, 11/4? Can you take it away at warp speed all over the fret board but risk breaking your ankle keeping time with your foot while playing odd groupings?
Well, then the fourth edition of the popular Freak Guitar – Growing Your Own Moustache download tuition series is something for you.