ANDERS NILSSON – Guitar
Photo: Peter Gannushkin downtownmusic.net
Electric & acoustic guitarist and composer Anders Nilsson lives in Brooklyn, NY. He leads his band Hesa Gun and plays in several NYC configurations, tours 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, violinist Jason Kao Hwang, 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, style and insight into many traditions of music.
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NEWS
Residency at Barbes in December, Saturdays at 6pm with differing colleagues!
See “performances” for details
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
See/hear more on “video” page & on the YouTube channel!
