Here is NYC-based guitarist/composer Anders Nilsson’s site. Email earraticart (at) gmail.com about booking engagements, lessons, joining the mailing list etc. Thanks for reading & listening!

photo: Peter Gannushkin http://downtownmusic.net/

2013 NEWS…..

…Anders got selected to participate in Omi Music International July 18th-August 4th! ….A trio consisting of Anders Nilsson on guitars, Francois Grillot on bass, Jay Rosen drums will record an homage album to Rod Serling this June for C.I.M.P Records…..The Derek Bailey Tribute Band just recorded at WKCR, watch for up an upcoming album on Ictus! Also, here’s a new compilation cd from Ictus at the Stone with a 6-guitar extravaganza included among many other cuts:

“Anders Nilsson, a guitarist & composer comfortable with everything from free improvisation to avant-garde metal, traverses ghostly mood-setting, bluesy twang and overdriven riffage” – Time Out, NY

“Swedish-born and New York-based experimental guitarist Anders Nilsson produces music that is at once bracingly direct and utterly unclassifiable.” – Matt Miller, tuneOUToptIN 

Nilsson/Fonda/Nilsson’s debut cd “Powers” is now out on Konnex Records! (Berlin) A guitar trio record. A  review in Step Tempest: http://steptempest.blogspot.com/2013/02/3-x-3-february-2013.html

Hot & Cold on WFMU: http://m.wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=48352&archive=83497

The DEBUT RECORDING of HOT & COLD “Hogwild Manifesto” is now released! 3 years worth of musical dialogue & investigation performed on electric guitars: http://aarondugan.bandcamp.com/album/hogwild-manifesto

Notes by Ken Filiano: From the uber-sensitive “For Albert” to the broad-spectrum sonic palette of “Night Juice Agenda” it’s perfectly clear that true democracy exits here in this duo offering. Anders and Aaron have clearly and refreshingly left ego (personal and guitaristic) at the door, creating a musical environment where the whole is larger than the parts; a manifesto so hog wild full of respect and embrace – pure heart and music of which we’re the lucky recipients.

“Although this duo is called Hot & Cold, perhaps it should be called Hot & Hotter. I dig the way the distortion (pedals) pushes things into a more intense light. The well integrated picking, interplay and choice of textures again makes this sound more like some progressive epic unfolding over a long period of time or album side length. Just have to listen to it again and again.” - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery.

Ken Waxman’s review of Hogwild Manifesto in The Whole Note: http://thewholenote.com/index.phpoption=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=51&Itemid=49

NEW ALBUM OUT! “NIGHT GUITAR” ANDERS’ OVERDUBBED SOLO ELECTRIC GUITAR ALBUM CONSISTING OF 6 HAUNTING ORIGINALS! Hear the opening track “Meet me in the back Alley” here: http://snd.sc/yu7Bqt © 2012.

cover art: Arik Roper

To buy a copy send an e-mail to sound@soundatone.com (Pay Pal shipping worldwide)

CD release gig: “Anders Nilsson, a guitarist-composer comfortable with everything from free improvisation to avant-garde metal, celebrates a fine recent solo effort, Night Guitar, that traverses ghostly mood-setting, bluesy twang and overdriven riffage. Tonight Nilsson performs pieces from the album as well as new work.”  – Time Out, New York. ….Personally I felt the concert at the gorgeous Firehouse Space in Brooklyn was very satisfying including the premier of “Pick-Up” for electric guitar, theremin, chimes inspired by Charles Willeford’s brutal 50′s novel by the same name. Quotes on Night Guitar:

“In the pieces I’ve heard from Night Guitar, Anders Nilsson has managed to find something truly original left in the much pillaged vaults of country blues guitar- something of the ghosts that have haunted it since the beginning. Think Blind Willie Johnson meets Bernard Hermann. Excellent  stuff.” - Marc Ribot

“Anders Nilsson has fashioned a set of beautifully mysterious guitar music that seamlessly blends a  wide range of influences into a unique sound: brooding, dramatic, and filled with surprises.”  - Elliot Sharp

Reviews: http://tuneoutoptin.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/guitarist-anders-nilssons-night-guitar/ & http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com/2012/06/anders-nilsson-night-guitar-soundatone.html?m=1 & http://www.soundofmusic.nu/recension/anders-nilsson-night-guitar (in Swedish)

Nilsson/Cleaver/Bjorkenheim: KALABALIK