Mattias IA EklundhTerra Incognita. The middle section of this tune is among the hardest things I have ever played. An utter tuplet inferno. The (wonderfully insane) rhythm derives from a structure my astounding friend B.C. Manjunath could only come up with it and it blew my mind completely. I simply had to compose a Freak Guitar Camp tune around it, basically to face my fear and share the sweet terror with the innocent campers.
To help the lovely Freak Guitar Camp participants fathom what the heck is going on, my other incredible friend and sidekick Yogev Gabay made a video for them with his amazingly clever marker pen way to explain tricky rhythms.
It's really (an understatement if there ever was one) hard to keep the quarter note pulse through this, or as Manjunath himself puts it: "tough cookie".
Mattias IA Eklundh - Terra Incognita (feat. B.C. Manjunath and Yogev Gabay)Mattias IA Eklundh2023-09-22 | Terra Incognita. The middle section of this tune is among the hardest things I have ever played. An utter tuplet inferno. The (wonderfully insane) rhythm derives from a structure my astounding friend B.C. Manjunath could only come up with it and it blew my mind completely. I simply had to compose a Freak Guitar Camp tune around it, basically to face my fear and share the sweet terror with the innocent campers.
To help the lovely Freak Guitar Camp participants fathom what the heck is going on, my other incredible friend and sidekick Yogev Gabay made a video for them with his amazingly clever marker pen way to explain tricky rhythms.
It's really (an understatement if there ever was one) hard to keep the quarter note pulse through this, or as Manjunath himself puts it: "tough cookie".
Week 1: 22nd - 27th of July
Week 2: 30th of July - 4th of August
46 intense minutes of utterly arbitrary footage from Freak Guitar Camp 2023. Inspired madness with the best people in the world!
A gigantic thank you to Yogev Gabay who filmed the better part of the video. Also, thanks a bunch to all the campers who contributed with various groovy clips.Mattias IA Eklundh - Fear Of The DayMattias IA Eklundh2023-10-06 | Fear Of The Day was the starting track during Freak Guitar Camp 2023, to get a feel for konnakol before going deep into the rabbit hole later in the week...
Fenrir artwork on the guitar by Lisa Mikhtarian: facebook.com/lisamkh.art instagram.com/lisamkh.artMattias IA Eklundh - Rinse And RepeatMattias IA Eklundh2023-09-29 | Rinse And Repeat is a pretty straightforward Freak Guitar Camp tune (well, it's in 7/8 for the better part) mostly focusing on various ways to pick, including intense sweeping and... swooping?
Fenrir artwork on the guitar by Lisa Mikhtarian: facebook.com/lisamkh.art instagram.com/lisamkh.artMattias IA Eklundh - Planet NineMattias IA Eklundh2023-09-15 | Planet Nine - A possible soundtrack for a possible cheap sci-fi movie about a possible planet. A +15-minute parallel time and rhythm study from Freak Guitar Camp 2023. Tap your foot to the 107 bpm pulse throughout.
Fenrir artwork on the guitar by Lisa Mikhtarian: facebook.com/lisamkh.art instagram.com/lisamkh.artFreak Guitar Camp 2023 - the 25th anniversary - begins today!Mattias IA Eklundh2023-07-24 | Let's do this! Freak Guitar Camp 2023, the 25th anniversary, begins today! Three packed weeks with wonderful people from all over the world coming to experience seriously intense guitar madness (and an occasional moose or two) in the woods of Sweden!Freak Audio Lab - Catalyst 31. Streaming now.Mattias IA Eklundh2023-07-07 | Freak Audio Lab - Catalyst 31 is now up and running on all major streaming platforms. Happy 31/4 dancing!
As I am gearing up for the Freak Guitar Camp, picking up stuff for the campers to check out, I whipped together a short tune in 31/4 to hear how the Catalyst would work in a musical context after the guys at Line6 told me they lack test drives of the amp on an 8-string guitar.
Noisy rhythm explanation (from my car) at the end.
Freak Audio Lab Voice Bots: a handful of lovely Freak Guitar Camp participants.Mattias IA Eklundh / B.C. Manjunath - A Prime Time ConversationMattias IA Eklundh2023-05-06 | Had a lovely little Zoom-chat about Primality the other day, how the track came about, konnakol, prime numbers, frequencies and whatnot.
Mridangam and konnakol by B.C. Manjunath recorded and filmed at Laya Digi Studios, Bangalore, India. Engineered by Pramath Kiran.
Everything else recorded, mixed and edited in the Freak Audio Lab.
Mastered by Torben Schmidt.
Primality
Sometimes the internet can be a wonderful thing. On March 8th I received a message on Instagram that blew yours truly right off the chair. The absolutely fantastic B.C. Manjunath, whom I had adored and respected for years, wrote to me and said he... was an admirer of my work (!) Needless to say, I went bananas and bombarded master B.C. Manjunath (or Manju as I now call him) with praise and love for his tremendous understanding of time. Manju is so next level it hurts.
What followed was a whole lot of brotherly writing and Zoom meetings. Manju really wanted to do a collaboration of some sorts. He didn't have to ask twice.
So, after completing the daunting (yet wonderful and inspiring) task of finishing all the vast material for this summer's Freak Guitar Camp I put the composer helmet back on and went to work. Very quickly a structure in 89/16 popped up in my Viking skull and I built the majority of the tune around this rhythm (21/16 x 3, 13/16 x 2). If anyone could groove over this with both konnakol and the mridangam and make it sound like the most natural thing in the world, it would be B.C. Manjunath.
I got all the files from Manju and went into mixing and video editing mode right away. I felt so extremely honored as I was tweaking the audio and chopping the footage, hour by hour, and I still have to pinch myself in the arm. This really happened.
Sometimes the internet can be a wonderful thing...
IAFreak Audio Lab - Wrong Kind Of Nothing (play along version)Mattias IA Eklundh2023-03-14 | Original version:
IAFreak Guitar Camp 2023 - open for registration!Mattias IA Eklundh2023-01-31 | Registration for Freak Guitar Camp 2023 is now open! Please visit: freakguitar.com/fgc/index.html for more information.
Week 1: 24th - 29th of July - sold out
Week 2: 1st - 6th of August - sold out Week 3: 10th - 15th of AugustFreak Audio Lab - 41/4Mattias IA Eklundh2023-01-13 | An explanation of the 21/16 and 20/16 rhythms over 41/4 in the tune 41. (Including instrumental play along version).
Freak Audio Lab Voice Bot: Laurent Huot
Thanks to Janne Laine for recording Laurent.
Thanks also to Chittaranjan Srinivas Swaminathan for proper konnakol.Freak Audio Lab - 41Mattias IA Eklundh2023-01-06 | Seven measures of 41/4 and strange spasms in a snowman suit.
The video: youtube.com/watch?v=mcaE8lhzQysFreak Audio Lab - SynapseMattias IA Eklundh2022-12-09 | This tapping melody popped up in my head early one morning as I fiddled around on the guitar, waiting for the coffee to be ready. Inspired, synapses firing, I got to work in my beloved Freak Audio Lab and decided to manifest the theme into some sort of a tune.
Week 1: 24th - 29th of July - sold out Week 2: 1st - 6th of August - sold out Week 3: 10th - 15th of August
Highly erratic 23-minute video from the sensational 2022 camp!Freak Audio Lab - Vacuum Mouth (play along version)Mattias IA Eklundh2022-10-21 | Stripped version of Vacuum Mouth. Happy playing.Freak Audio Lab - Vacuum MouthMattias IA Eklundh2022-10-14 | Electronic metal in 31/8, pulverized konnakol and footage of my drooling dog.
From Freak Guitar - Growing Your Own Moustache Volume X. Out fall 2023.
Thanks to Osman Sarcos and Johan Bäckström for shooting video at the Freak Guitar Camp. (Additional footage from Berlin).Mattias IA Eklundh - Soft Soap And Wishful ThinkingMattias IA Eklundh2022-09-30 | A quintuplet study from Freak Guitar Camp 2022. Tap your foot to the 112 bpm pulse throughout.
From Freak Guitar - Growing Your Own Moustache Volume X. Out fall 2023.
Thanks to Osman Sarcos and Johan Bäckström for shooting video at the Freak Guitar Camp. (Additional footage from Berlin).Mattias IA Eklundh - FlummoxedMattias IA Eklundh2022-09-23 | A 17/4 triplet study from Freak Guitar Camp 2022 (plus konnakol and harmonics exercise in 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 8/4, 9/4, 10/4, then reversed and more). Tap your foot to the 117 bpm pulse throughout.
From Freak Guitar - Growing Your Own Moustache Volume X. Out fall 2023.
Thanks to Osman Sarcos and Johan Bäckström for shooting video at the Freak Guitar Camp. (Additional footage from my garden).Mattias IA Eklundh - The Native Hue Of ResolutionMattias IA Eklundh2022-09-02 | A 16-minute rhythm study from Freak Guitar Camp 2022 in ascending melodic minor and its relative keys. Tap your foot to the 90 bpm pulse throughout.
From Freak Guitar - Growing Your Own Moustache Volume X. Out fall 2023.
Thanks to Yogev Gabay, Osman Sarcos, Chittaranjan Srinivas Swaminathan and Johan Bäckström for shooting video at the Freak Guitar Camp. Additional footage from Võru, Estonia.Freak Audio Lab - Luke 23:34 (play along version)Mattias IA Eklundh2022-04-29 | Stripped version of Luke 23:34. Happy playing.Freak Audio Lab - SpringMattias IA Eklundh2022-04-22 | Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/5LT3V7uyIPvjMX9PY4T9ao?si=1b5fa062207e4db9
Freak Audio Lab Voice Bot: IAAIFreak Guitar Camp 2022 - open for registration!Mattias IA Eklundh2022-01-31 | Registration for Freak Guitar Camp 2022 is now open! Please visit: freakguitar.com/fgc/index.html for more information.
WEEK 1: 25th - 30th of July
WEEK 2: 2nd - 7th of AugustFreak Audio Lab - Koth (play along version)Mattias IA Eklundh2022-01-28 | Play along version, stripped of leads.
Original version: open.spotify.com/track/0aC09IBXT9ADD4qFRWkvym?si=faafc3847cb94796Freak Audio Lab - New Air (play along version)Mattias IA Eklundh2022-01-21 | So... I had some more requests for play along versions of my zany music. Re-mixed New Air, stripped of lead guitar for this week. Happy playing.Freak Audio Lab - Exile (play along version)Mattias IA Eklundh2022-01-14 | I had some requests for a stripped, play along version of Exile, the past week. There you go. Happy playing.Freak Audio Lab - ExileMattias IA Eklundh2022-01-07 | Inspired by the brilliant Quake Champions map Exile.
Featuring Torgrim the Broholmer and Panja the German Shepherd.
We all came down to the Delhi To play freaky music And check out The vivid scenery
This Danish paper Printed explosive cartoons The Muslim world Took quite seriously
Provocation or Freedom of speech? The shit had hit the fan And there we were
Don't go out there You're oozing Scandinavian Always trust the wisdom Of your local chauffeur
Tandoori stains And teargas jazz No, we're not Danes Teargas jazz
As pragmatic Vikings We kept a low profile The mad were wad As only mad can be
We all came down to the Delhi To play freaky music And check out The vivid scenery
Tandoori stains And teargas jazz No, we're not Danes Teargas jazzFreak Audio Lab - Chest Pain Waltz (Playthrough)Mattias IA Eklundh2021-12-03 | Album: Organic
Freak Audio Lab Voice Bot: Björn "Freak Audio Lab å grejer" Fryklund
Chest Pain Waltz
So I've been acting somewhat weird recently I guess it's life that's catching up on me Tired of pretending Run out of façade Caucasian puppetry
You can only keep things Stashed away for so long
I've had all the shit I can take All the shit I can take To push me now is a grand mistake I've had all the shit I can take
Chest pain! Chest pain waltz! Chest pain!
Here comes another stunning panic attack Increase the dose, there is no turning back My legs feel kind of dead Massively irrational Shock treatment maniac
You can only keep things Stashed away for so long
I've had all the shit I can take All the shit I can take To push me now is a grand mistake I've had all the shit I can take
Chest pain! Chest pain waltz! Chest pain!Freak Audio Lab - Supermodel Baby (Playthrough)Mattias IA Eklundh2021-11-26 | Album: Dead Soul Men
Them calories just gotta go Stopped eating a year ago I'm so thin you will not spot me sideways
I wanna be a supermodel I wanna look like I'm dead I wanna be somebody's product I'm beautiful and give good head
Working on a trendy pose Cover the pimples on my nose Saving up to fix the cheek-bones in my face
I wanna be a supermodel I wanna look like I'm dead I wanna be somebody's product I'm beautiful and give good head
Striving for that Third World Look Skinny is trendy (with a matching doek) Gee, I'm looking forward to United Colors of Benetton's Kosovo Collection
My mom and dad think I am ready They say I'm God's gift to men I'll throw a super model party Tomorrow morning I'll be tenFreak Audio Lab - Appetizer (Playthrough)Mattias IA Eklundh2021-11-19 | Album: Appetizer
Tiny fingers from afar Born to sow your push-up bra
Millions spent on your new campaign The greater the profit, the greater the pain
Hey Mister That nose of yours seems to grow Hey Mister
I got to know How about the kid down in Olongapo? I got to know I hate your stinking logo
Hey Mister You sinister Pinocchio Hey Mister
I got to know How about the kid down in Olongapo? I got to know I hate your stinking logo
Spare me your attempts to charity I smell business strategyFreak Audio Lab - (Saving Up For An) Anal Bleach (Playthrough)Mattias IA Eklundh2021-11-05 | Album: Cooking With Pagans
Shit! I'm low on battery Ipad parent, shame on me Pierce my eye and dream about A testicle tattoo
Need more gadgets to decorate Frame my shallow, sorry state I so want my asshole to be Pretty just for you
I'm saving up! I'm saving up! I'm saving up! Saving up for an anal bleach
Happiness is a friend request Jerk off to a binary breast Oops, my youngest may have drowned While I deleted spam
Tweet. tweet all day long Desperate to belong I am not sure I even do exist If it ain't on Instagram
I'm saving up! I'm saving up! I'm saving up! Saving up for an anal bleach
Content? Substance? Who gives a crap? When you can download another app Into a reservoir of nothingness Browse until we drop
Twinkle, twinkle little star Can you see how fucked up we are? Everything is not enough And we never, ever stopFreak Guitar Camp 2022Mattias IA Eklundh2021-10-29 | Registration for Freak Guitar Camp 2022 is now open! Please visit: freakguitar.com/fgc/index.html for more information.
Week 1: 25th - 30th of July Week 2: 2nd - 7th of August
Video contains highly erratic footage from the wonderful camp in 2021.Mattias IA Eklundh - Cargo Cult ParadeMattias IA Eklundh2021-10-22 | From Freak Guitar - Growing Your Own Moustache Volume IX, including 80-page notation booklet, original and stripped backing tracks, available here: freakkitchen.com/shop/product.php?id=94
Bonus notation: 19. Quad Damage 20. KothMattias IA Eklundh - Restless MeanderMattias IA Eklundh2021-10-15 | From Freak Guitar - Growing Your Own Moustache Volume IX, including 80-page notation booklet, original and stripped backing tracks, available here: freakkitchen.com/shop/product.php?id=94
Bonus notation: 19. Quad Damage 20. KothMattias IA Eklundh - Bop EquationMattias IA Eklundh2021-10-08 | From Freak Guitar - Growing Your Own Moustache Volume IX, including 80-page notation booklet, original and stripped backing tracks, available here: freakkitchen.com/shop/product.php?id=94
Bonus notation: 19. Quad Damage 20. KothMattias IA Eklundh - Margin Of ErrorMattias IA Eklundh2021-10-01 | Margin Of Error. An 18-minute piece in harmonic minor and all its relative keys.
From Freak Guitar - Growing Your Own Moustache Volume IX, including 80-page notation booklet, original and stripped backing tracks, available now.
Shop: freakkitchen.com/shop/product.php?id=94Freak Audio Lab - Confusion To The Enemy (Playthrough)Mattias IA Eklundh2021-09-24 | Being a tad "lazy" and posting a re-edited version of Confusion To The Enemy from a previous Freak Audio Lab video as I am preparing for the release of Growing Your Own Moustache IX October 1st.
It was time for a song from the Confusion album in the cycle of playthroughs anyway and it is one of my favorite tunes in the catalogue, so...
I am sorry about the mess here I've been busy being dead Busy being dead
Freshen up the carbon oxide While I calibrate my head Calibrate my head
A proper maniac Take the lemons back
Confusion to the enemy Confusion to the enemy Confusion to the enemy Confusion to the enemy
You look stupid in that jumpsuit That bone structure is a joke Is everything a joke?
Confusion to the enemy Confusion to the enemy Confusion to the enemy Confusion to the enemy
Let the tests begin Pump the air back in
Garbage... Your parents do not love you Good news, neither do I
I will laminate your skeleton Pose you in the lobby When you die
Confusion to the enemy Confusion to the enemy Confusion to the enemy Confusion to the enemyFreak Audio Lab - Mr. Kashchei & The 13 Prostitutes (Playthrough)Mattias IA Eklundh2021-09-17 | Album: Freak Kitchen
"New in town? Got it all Ya wanna buy a gram? Funny accent… A Russian in Amsterdam? Looking for a job Or need a place to stay? Go see Kashchei..."
What the hell, I said How bad can it be? And checked the address The guy gave to me The letters were smudged "Dead knight district"?!? A name for a derelict...
"Zdrastvujtje! My name is Ivan Is this the right place? I'm here to see a man A Mr Kashchei", I was invited in To "The House of Sin"...
Then the world exploded The only thing I recall Before I woke up Tied to a concrete wall "Let me introduce myself And welcome to my club I'm your local Beelzebub"
What am I doing here? What in the name of a Hun Am I doing here?
Powder all around me Smoke that makes me dizzy Unfamiliar devices
Women smiling tempting Syringes injecting Lies and pseudo paradises
Fake paradises...
While tied to the wall, Ivan, who was too naive to fathom the shit he was in, made semi-romantic moves (well, since he was tied up) on one of the girls in Kashchei's harem. Ivan's innocent, Irkutskian eyes made a monumental impression on the somewhat jaded girl and she rediscovered feelings she thought were dead and buried a long ago. Love was in the marijuana air... The evil Mr. Kashchei and his sinister drug pushers, whom he provisioned with free dope to keep them ignorant and dumb, had settled back for a few Z's. Meanwhile, Ivan was cut loose by his new found love and they decided it was time they leave. So did the other girls who were fed up doing time in the thick of things.
All of a sudden Kashchei opened his eyes and instantly aware of what was going down he unleashed his thunderous rage. "No one fucks with Kashchei! Nikto ne ebat so mnoj! Especially not whores and cocksuckers named Ivan! ", he screamed furiously, his appearance all the more frightening.
A few of the pushers vaguely perceived the tumult but were too stoned to ascertain the circumstances and retired, contented, to their state of inhaled bliss.
However, one of the girls knew about Kashchei’s Achilles’ heel; (ironically) that hard boiled Satanic, son-of-a-bitch, son-of-a-Hun was allergic. She managed to sneak out the back door in search of some kind of animal, preferably a cat or a dog. In a street corner lay a Dutch shepherd with orange fur and a puzzled look that became more puzzled as the girl picked him up and dashed back to "The House of Sin". The dog, friendly by nature, mistook Kashchei's shouting and waving for an invitation to play and leaped up on his chest causing an immediate hypersensitive reaction, leaving the drug dealing pimp panting on the floor, Delft-blue in the face...
Ivan and the former 13 prostitutes escaped and took the first available flight out of the country, whose destination happened to be Portugal. The heroic dog was quickly named "Lucifers" ("Fire" in Dutch) at the airport before checking into quarantine.
Ivan and company now live as suburban idiots, and love it, in a commune outside of Lisbon. Mr. Kashchei got arrested but avoided custody since drug dealing hardly ain't a crime in the Netherlands anymore. He later moved to Copenhagen and became a politician. His pusher dudes are still wandering about the streets of Amsterdam in their purple haze...Freak Audio Lab - Dystopia (Playthrough)Mattias IA Eklundh2021-09-10 | Album: Spanking Hour
How many died? How many were injured? Is this the grossest thing you ever heard? Maybe someone is gonna fry on death row? We need to know, we need to know
Who can we hang for irresponsibility? Where is the fucker who's in charge of security? We need a scapegoat, and we need it now Get it somehow, get it somehow
I ain't heading for Dystopia There's no way you can drag me to Dystopia I ain't heading for Dystopia There's no way you can drag me to Dystopia
Have we got pictures of all the deceased? It's getting even better: The numbers just increased Make sure it's bloody when we're on the air We really care, we really care
The more details, the better off we'll be We never stop, you have the right to see It's our duty and we serve it well Let's go to hell, let's go to hell
I ain't heading for Dystopia There's no way you can drag me to Dystopia I ain't heading for Dystopia There's no way you can drag me to Dystopia
If it don't bleed, it don't lead If it don't bleed, it don't lead
I ain't heading for Dystopia...Freak Audio Lab - God Save The Spleen (Playthrough)Mattias IA Eklundh2021-09-03 | Album: Land Of The Freaks