The Why

The Why 2023

The Why in action

THE WHY is a daring, improvising unit that constructs it’s pieces freely across the music and idea maps. In general, the why is by far the hardest of the questions to answer. It gets real through the moment to moment choices made independently together from scratch in the step-taking that constitutes the process of improvisation. Urge vs. consequence, individuality vs. duality, commitment vs. surrender etc.

Participating actors fluctuate around Anders in “THE WHY”

THE WHY has performed at Art for Arts, NuBlu, and has been broadcast on wkcr.

Participants have included Jeremy Carlstedt – drums, Francois Grillot – bass, Ava Mendoza – electric guitar, On Ka’a Davis – electric guitar…

The first “The Why” studio album called “This Earth” just came out in October 2020 featuring Anders Nilsson – guitar & Jeremy Carlstedt – drums. It’s available on bandcamp, there are T-shirts and a video on the home page, go there!