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 TOUR OF THE FREAKS
Sweden, Germany, France, Spain, and UK coming up!
Tour of the Freaks continues! These are the confirmed 2010 concerts so far: Jan 21 No1 Guitarshop, Gothenburg (Freak Guitar Clinic) Sweden Jan 29 Tiki-room, Arvika, Sweden Jan 30 Krom Uppsala Sweden Feb 2 Kronan, Trollhättan, Sweden (Freak Guitar Clinic) Sweden Feb 6 Hessenhalle, Gießen, Germany (get tickets here: www.kig-giessen.de) Feb 8 La Maroquinerie, Paris, France (get tickets here: www.fnacspectacles.com) Feb 9 Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing,France (get tickets here: www.fnacspectacles.com) Feb 10 La Laiterie, Strasbourg, France (get tickets here: www.fnacspectacles.com) Feb 11 Ninkasi Kao, Lyon, France (get tickets here: www.fnacspectacles.com) Feb 12 Espace Julien, Marseille, France (get tickets here: www.fnacspectacles.com) Feb 13 Rockstore, Montpellier, France (get tickets here: www.fnacspectacles.com) Feb 14 Théatre Barbey, Bordeaux, France (get tickets here: www.fnacspectacles.com) Feb 26 Konsert & Kongress, Linköping, Sweden (get tickets here: www.ticnet.se) Feb 27 Club Monster, Gävle, Sweden Mar 6 Ritmo y Compás, Madrid, Spain (get tickets here: www.entradas.com) Mar 24 Frankfurt Musik Messe, Frankfurt, Germany (Freak Guitar Clinics) Apr 2 Moscow, Russia (Freak Guitar Clinic) Apr 9 Brewhouse, Gothenburg, Sweden (get tickets here: www.ticnet.se) Apr 10 Robert Johnson Guitar Award, Hamburg, Germany (Freak Guitar Clinic) Jun 19 Guitar Fight Club, Germany (Freak Guitar Clinic) Jun 20 Hellfest, Nantes, France Aug 29 Monkeyfest, Wiltshire UK More dates to come. Italy and Portugal in May. New Finnish dates in July. Hope to see you on the road! FREAK GUITAR CAMP 2010
Registration is Open!
Happy to present the dates for Freak Guitar Camp 2010: Scandinavian Week 26th - 31st of July First International Week 2nd - 7th of August Second International Week 10th - 15th of August Registration is now open! Hope to see you this summer! LAND OF THE FREAKS
New album!
 We are very happy to announce we have just signed with Roadrunner, France. The French will be get to hear Land of the Freaks in November. Street date: 23rd of November. (Needless to say, the coolest Christmas gift of the year). Avispa Records in Spain released the album together with the French. More countries and release dates will follow soon. The tunes and running order: 1. God Save the Spleen 2. Hip Hip Hoorah 3. Teargas Jazz 4. Sick? (Death by Hypochondria) 5. OK 6. Honey, You’re a Nazi 7. The Only Way 8. Murder Groupie 9. The Smell of Time 10. One Last Dance 11. Do Not Disturb 12. Clean it Up Get your copy now! www.roadrunner.fr, www.amazon.co.uk, www.hmv.com, www.play.com, www.propermusicdistribution.com, www.cdon.eu, www.cdon.se, www.cdon.no, www.cdon.fi, www.cdon.dk, www.ginza.se, www.avispamusic.com, www.lasercd.com, www.cdinzane.com and of course the mighty iTunes. Check out the new Freak Kitchen MySpace profile as well as our Facebook page. We have also created a new YouTube channel, called GodSavetheSpleen (www.youtube.com/godsavethespleen), where we will post loads of videos in the future, live clips, corny on the road stuff, e t c, both in top notch quality and lo-fi. Subscribe and be the first to see! Listen to the tune Teargas Jazz feat. V. Selvaganesh on kanjeera and Neyveli S Radhakrishna on double violin on MySpace! MERCHANDISE
Loads of new stuff!
Visit the official Freak Kitchen Online Store to sink you teeth into a groovy, organic, bamboo Land of the Freaks T-shirt, signed Land of the Freaks CDs, Freak Guitar - Growing Your Own Moustache Vol. 2, the new pressing of Move, Christer's first solo effort Eaglestrike and Mr. Fastfinger's debut album The Way of the Exploading Guitar! The classic, much requested Cow T-shirt is back in stock also in organic, bamboo top-notch quality. (Sizes S - XXL). TUITION ALBUM
Freak Guitar - Growing Your Own Moustache Vol. 2!
 Tracklist: 1. Fork 2. Shave my Shoes 3. Ten Types of Pain 4. Naja Naja 5. Mike the Lesbian 6. Compress Me 7. Fortune Cookie Wisdom 8. Exorcism Pasta 9. I Wonder Why You Wonder Why I Wonder? 10. Bastardization 11. Uoiauai 12. Pick it Up 13. The Hummus Knife 14. Oh Yeah? 15. Barf Bag Bernhard 16. Clemence the Intense 17. Ivory Key Melancholy 18. Freak Guitar Camp Anthem 19. Ludwig van Fork Sharpen your fingers!. LIVE VIDEOS
The Freak Kitchen YouTube Channel!
Check out Taste my Fist, Chopstick Boogie, Vaseline Bizniz and Samba Caramba live from Sweden Rock Festival on the new Freak Kitchen YouTube channel! We also just uploaded Speak When Spoken To and Porno Daddy live from Gothenburg. Check it out! Lots of more videos coming! CAPARISON FORUM
TATTOO
Tattoo on the road? Chris is up for it!
Ever thought about getting a groovy tattoo? Chris and Eaglestrike Tattoo are up for it! While on the road, Chris will set up a mobile studio backstage or at the current hotel facility. Since this is no kid stuff, it all needs to planned in advance. Motives need to be worked out (you may have an idea or picture or you might want Chris to create something unique for you). Sounds interesting? For more information, please send Chris an e-mail. Visit Eaglestrike Tattoo for photos. EAGLESTRIKE
Sneak listen now!
Sink your teeth and ears into a couple of brand new tracks from Christer's side project Eaglestrike's forthcoming album at MySpace! BLOG
BLOG
BLOG
Land of the Freaks XI - beefy update!
Read the most beefy blog update so far with tales and photos from India, Germany, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea and more: Land of the Freaks Breakfast in New Delhi Mumbai and the Swollen Swedes Indian Capital Gear Breakdown The Delhi Inkslinger Adventure Brazilians and Ghosts in the Machine Gothenburg to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to Bremen One Night in Bangkok Jakarta Ballroom Frenzy November Bandung Rain Hong Kong Christmas Vibes... Seoul Hyundai Roof Garden Gwangju Hiddink Continental Hotel Clean, Crisp and Fresh in Deagu Munich Moment of Truth Happy reading! BLOG
Land of the Freaks X!
New photo blog from the recent Metal Rock Fest in Norway and two concerts IA did this summer with Selvaganesh and Jonas Hellborg. Check out Land of the Freaks X. BLOG
Land of the Freaks VIII & VIIII!
New blog from the Beethoven Triple Concerto, Land of the Freaks photo session and more! Read Land of the Freaks VIII and Land of the Freaks VIIII. TRUE TEMPERAMENT
New frets on the Apple Horns!
IA has been floored (to say the least) by Swedish inventor Anders Thidell's ground breaking True Temperament frets! Two Caparison Apple Horn guitars have been equipped with this amazing invention so far. The intonation is superior to anything else out there. To be heard on both Land of the Freaks and IA's next Freak Guitar album. BEETHOVEN
Triple Concerto!
Saturday 14th of June IA managed to play/survive the violin part of Ludwig van Beethoven's Triple Concerto on guitar together with Jonas Hellborg (playing the cello part on bass), Patrik Jablonski (piano) and the Västerås Symphonietta and had a ball while doing so! BLOG
Land of the Freaks VI & VII!
New blogs from the Metal meets Brass concert, the Mats/Morgan All Star Team at the Melloboat, the Frankfurt Musik Messe and a short Freak Guitar Clinic trip to Split, Croatia. Read Land of the Freaks VI and Land of the Freaks VII. BIG BAND METAL
Metal met Brass!
 March 1st, Linköping, Sweden. A monumental thank you to everyone attending our Metal meets Brass concert! TUITION ALBUM
Freak Guitar - Growing Your Own Moustache Vol. 1!
From the Freak Guitar Camp archives comes a double download tuition album called Freak Guitar - Growing Your Own Moustache Vol. 1. Having received tons of e-mails and questions over the years from dedicated guitar players wondering where to get backing tracks to practice to IA decided to dig deep in the vaults and pick the best, nastiest, most challenging camp tunes for a beefy collection of wild songs that will keep your fingers busy for a long time to come. There is one version of every track with guitar, as IA plays it (CD 1), and one without for you to jam to; "grow your own moustache" so to speak (CD 2). Along each song comes a PDF-file to print. The music is written down in both traditional notation and tablature. There is also a CD-cover available for print and an A4 back and front and back page that you can use for the notation.  You get to learn odd time signatures, monstrous tuplets, loads of tapping, picking, string skipping, harmonics, wild riffs, reduction, finger picking, arpeggios, exotic modes and then some. Not for the squeamish. Freak Guitar - Growing Your Own Moustache Vol. 1 is available from the Online Store now! Download if you dare… Tracklist: 1. Disco Diabolique 2. The Masala Conspiracy 3. Freak Guitar Camp 2005 Anthem 4. From the Desk of Dr. Benson Ukulele 5. What Kind of Whammy Pedal Do You Use? 6. Fifth Arpeggio Pseudo Punk 7. Circle of Wankers 8. For Those About to Camp 9. Ugly Side of You 10. Jacobi's Floor 11. Whole Lotta Whole Tone 12. Fat Chance 13. Freak Guitar Camp 2004 Anthem 14. Hateful Little Beatle 15. Bjorn Borg Deodorant 16. Church Mode Mood 17. Zoo Me 18. Wake Up and Smell the Species 19. Gringo Starr 20. Chromium Cheese 21. Freak Guitar Camp 2003 Anthem 22. Eureka! I am Happy LAND OF THE FREAKS V
LAND OF THE FREAKS IIII
Blog update!
New blog update with photos from the drum recording of the new album. Check out Land of the Freaks IIII! LAND OF THE FREAKS III
Blog update!
New blog update with photos from recent Metal meets Brass concert rehearsal. Check out Land of the Freaks III! FACEBOOK
The band's got a profile!
Facebook user? Make sure you sign up for the brand new Freak Kitchen profile created by our beloved HTML-Dude! LAND OF THE FREAKS II
ATLANTA
Thanks a bunch!
 We had a splendid time in Atlanta! Thank you, amazing Kitchen Freaks! We'll be back! BLOGS AND INTERVIEW
Autumn Leaves - new blog, Abstract Logix interview + Favored Nations blog!
New blog here on freakkitchen.com! Read Autumn Leaves. Brand new interview with Eklundh on Freak Kitchen, the Art Metal release, e t c, at Abstract Logix. Read IA's guest writing on Favored Nations MySpace blog. DIAPER DIARIES
IA's got a son!
Read the Diaper Diaries about IA's first-born son, Gabriel Johannes Eklundh, the Art Metal album and more. ART METAL
It's out there!!
The long-awaited Art Metal album, featuring Jonas Hellborg, Selvaganesh, the Johansson brothers and IA, was released September 18th through Bardo Records. Combining Selvaganesh's South Indian rhythm structures with Hellborg's frantic, groovy bass, IA's beefy riffs and vivid leads, Jens Johansson's virtuoso fingers and Anders Johansson's heavy beats this is something you have never heard before. Plain and simple: it's Art Metal. Don't miss. Tracklist: 1. Muthucutpor (Hellborg/Selvaganesh/Eklundh) 2. Manirambha (Hellborg/Selvaganesh/Eklundh) 3. Nataraja (Hellborg/Selvaganesh) 4. Solitude (Hellborg/Selvaganesh) 5. The Three Princes of Serendip (Hellborg/Selvaganesh) 6. Round Metal Hat (Hellborg/Selvaganesh/Eklundh) 7. Vyakhyan - kar (Hellborg) 8. Art Metal (Hellborg/Selvaganesh/Eklundh) INTERVIEW
BLOG
Growth of the Freak Family!
The Freak Blog has just been updated with splendid news: Growth of the Freak Family! as well as IA's report from this year's Frankfurt Messe entitled Musik Messe Madness COOKING
Chris Blogs!
In addition to the recent Cooking chapters, we are happy to have Chris writing his first entry. Read about his Russian martial art experience: Cheboksary Fight Night It took a good while but now, finally, the Cooking blog is (beyond) updated. Stretching from July to December, these are the beefy chapters: Nasty Pointy Fingers - Freak Kitchen live in Blanes The Road Rats in Germany and France The Atlanta Viking Invasion Swedish Sweat on the Canary Islands United Kingdom of Lichtenstein Freak Kitchen goes to Russia Oslo & German Clinic Tour Magic in Gothenburg Tons of photos included too. (You may have to do a bit of scrolling to get to the various chapters). Happy reading, friends!  ONLINE STORE
Open NOW!
Yes, it is finally true! The Freak Kitchen Online Store is now open for business! You can sink your teeth into brand new freaky T-shirts, girlie shirts, kid shirts, hoods, backpacks, caps, belt buckles, necklaces and CDs including the Jonas Hellborg catalogue and other freak related releases like the re-release of Mr Libido, Petrus and Johan Randén along with the freak albums. FORUM
We are truly happy to present the official Freak Kitchen Forum (click on the link above to visit) thanks to
Alex Wood and our own HTML Dude. The band will participate as much as they can.
WWW.HELLBORGGROUP.COM
Visit the new site of the Jonas Hellborg Art Metal Trio (feat. IA) at www.hellborggroup.com.
Check out the tune Escape from New Morning, Paris, France. (Thanks to FX for shooting the gig). Check out the tune Leal Souvenir from the Jazz Utsav, Mumbai, India on video with IA and Hellborg here. COOKING
The Cooking blog is updated with tales (and tons of photos) from the roads of India and Sweden! Read the brand new chapters:
Viking Weekend Cooking in India Live in Delhi What else? Hotter Than Hell in Mumbai Nut Freezing Time Also check out the new, stimulating chapters from IA's recent travels to Los Angeles and Mexico City: City of Tiny Lights Anaheim Feet Pain Burrito Boy in Mexico City Ca Ca Con Leche Happy reading! THE GRAND CHURCH OF FREAKINESS
Check it out! :)
There is now a religion dedicated to Mattias called "Mattiasology"!!! From the creator of the "Adventures of Mattias IA Eklundh" comes THE GRAND CHURCH OF FREAKINESS! THE ADVENTURES OF MATTIAS IA EKLUNDH
ORGANIC
The sixth Freak Kitchen album out now!
Organic, the new album, is out in the open, spreading throughout the planet. Swedes (dist. Bonnier Amigo), the Danish (dist. Universal), the Finnish (dist. Bonnier Amigo), Norwegians (dist. Bonnier Amigo), the French (dist. Replica Records), the English (dist. Proper Music), the Japanese (dist. JVC/Victor Entertainment) and the Spanish (dist. Avispa) can now sink their teeth into the album. On Organic, we're joined by the amazing Bumblefoot on vocals and guitar on the track "Speak When Spoken To". We have also shot a video for the track which will be feautured on a special, first printing bonus DVD. The DVD also includes three exclusive live clips from Paris ("Hateful Little People", "Taste my Chopstick") and Montpellier ("Blind") + the "Nobody's Laughing" and "Print This!"-videos. The cover painting is made by fabulous French expressionist Thierry Cardinet. Swedes can place their order at www.ginza.se. The rest of Scandinavia can order from www.cdon.com. Excellent site Guitar Nine ships worldwide, buy at www.guitar9.com. UK's Total Guitar wrote: "Any good? Imagine Steve Vai, Jimi Hendrix, Devin Townsend and Frank Zappa feeding each other acid in a sauna. Throw in a few Wylde-style pinch harmonics, a heart attack, an Italian dictator, wall to wall distortion and a barklingly catchy, rap-metal influenced first single, and you're close to acheiving Freak Kitchen's avant-garde brand of spazz jazz metal. If the Alice in Chains-meets-Offspring simplicity of the songs doesn't win you over then Eklundh's rococo guitar style will have you reaching for the rewind button". Guitarist wrote: "Eklundh and pals on the brink of genuine greatness"! **** FREAK GUITAR - THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED
IA's second solo effort released by Favored Nations!
Steve Vai and Favored Nations recently released IA's critically acclaimed solo album Freak Guitar - The Road Less Traveled in the US, Canada, Greece, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium and Holland.. Get the CD here. Visit IA's Freak Guitar site: www.freakguitar.com for more updates, reviews, e t c. MR LIBIDO
Sensually Primitive re-release available now!
The one, missing album in your freak collection, IA's first solo release (without a single note of guitar!) Mr Libido, Sensually Primitive, that hasn't been available for years is now finally seeing the light of day again in a brand new pressing! The CD, an outrageous techno parody with ultra-catchy tunes is now avaiable through the online store. Sensually Primitive includes the following tracks: 1. The Serious Musician 2. How are we feeling today? 3. Big Ugly Secret 4. Daddy´s box of no-no´s 5. Your left arm 6. Train leaves at 04:00 7. Techno Moron 8. Not that kind of bird 9. Herbert the Pervert 10. Dead on Arrival 11. Sit on my face 12. I thought it was a horse 13. Hard to the core 14. Sensually primitive 15. Bite of King |
Land of the Freaks!
 Get it Now!
Gothenburg!
 Brewhouse 9th of April!
Hellfest!
 Live in June!
YouTube!
 New live videos!
Tuition Album!
 Growing Your Own Moustache Vol.2! Available now!
Tattoo!
 Chris is doing it!
MySpace!
 New Look!
Live!
 Tour of the Freaks!
Eaglestrike!
 Sneak listen!
Blog!
 Updated!
True Temperament!
 Divine intonation!
Tuition Album!
 Freak Guitar Growing Your Own Moustache!
Freak Guitar Distortion!
 AMT Electronics build IA signature pedal!
Cooking
 Blog Updated!
Organic Released!
 The new album Organic has been released to select European and South East Asian markets. For artwork, lyrics, samples and video clips, follow the links below: |
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