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Anders Nilsson – electric/acoustic guitarist, composer, teacher lives in Brooklyn, NY. He leads his band Hesa Gun and plays in several NYC configurations including The 49ers – a guitar duo with Ty Citerman, Jason Hwang’s Critical Response Trio and records with artists such as singer/setar player Mohsen Namjoo & saxophonist Avram Fefer. He has worked with a wide array of composing and improvising visionaires across the genres and continents including guitarists Elliott Sharp and Raoul Björkenheim, vocalist Fay Victor, keyboardist Gordon Beeferman, Momenta Quartet, Under Satan’s Sun. He has performed throughout Europe, North America, Australia and appears on over 40 albums, many of which have received great critical and public acclaim. He has earned a reputation as a guitarist with a distinctive sound, presence, and insight into many traditions of music.
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NEWS
June 2026 As of now I’m available for solo or small group performances, house concerts, private events etc via Groupmuse: https://groupmuse.com/@guitar_journeys
June 2026 
A new acoustic microtonal guitar arrived from Turkey, what fun! A short demo: https://youtube.com/shorts/jN-5auzsVLE?is=eIYbYSib6wGq3TUu
Summer 2026 Hesa Gun will start recording our first album! New music has been added lately and the older pieces gain in maturity each time performed, good time to record an album full of originals!
HESA GUN is Anders Nilsson – guitar, Sam Kulik – trombone, David Ambrosio – bass, Vinnie Sperrazza – drums
Summer 2026 The 49ers strike again with performances of my two electric guitar arrangement of Schönberg’s ”Drei Klavierstücke” op.11 (1909) and our take on ”Sechs kleine Klavierstücke” op. 19 (1909), along with original pieces that stretch this modernist origin music in new electrifying directions.
11/21/25 The 49ers is Ty Citerman and myself playing Arnold Schönberg’s musically ground breaking piano music from over a century ago, plus originals, on two electric guitars! After 30 years of gut felt reactions, awe, inspiration, intrigue, getting scores out of libraries, wonder and gratitude to the fearlessness of Schönberg and his crew, it’s challenging and rewarding getting our hands dirty on a new level and bring ourselves into this music we feel such a kinship to.
7/15/25 Anders appears on Jason Kao Hwang’s new release “Myths of Origin” on Flying Panda Music. Recorded live at Roulette at Vision Fest 2022. https://jasonkaohwang.bandcamp.com/album/jason-kao-hwang-myths-of-origin
Mohsen Namjoo & band @ Queen Elizabeth Theater in Toronto 1/11/25
Latest release “Äventyr” (zOaR)
QUOTES
“Anders Nilsson’s Äventyr, a recording of recently-composed guitar duets (in this case performed by two Anders), is a patiently unfolding wonderland of guitar possibilities. Utilizing mostly pristine guitar tones, this work often shimmers like crystal – delicate but not fragile – with the kind of “dissonance” I call “beauty”. Sonorities are masterfully combined, dynamics subtly shift as these rather episodic pieces patiently expand and explore. A kind of chamber work that manages to be both intimate and epic, revealing interior realms while still shredding just a bit… Irresistible.”
– Nels Cline
“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
“Swedish-born and New York-based experimental guitarist Anders Nilsson produces music that is at once bracingly direct and utterly unclassifiable.” – Matt Miller, tuneOUToptIN
VIDEOS
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