Anders Nilsson

Anders Nilsson "Night Guitar"

Swedish NYC-guitarist Anders Nilsson (Fulminate Trio, Fay Victor Ensemble, Hot & Cold) has been performing and recording electric solo guitar originals. "Night Guitar" (SoundatOne) from 2012 features composition-minded over-dubbed electric guitar music of his.

One of my aims is to create a dramatic narrative between extremely different sonic timbres in different sections, creating a sense of two or more "personalities" or "developments" happening right before your ears, much like a mystery plot.
I have now written a new batch of music for electric guitar plus some for the Swedish 11-string acoustic alto guitar and it is spreading in several directions all at once. The music is of a composed nature and involves contemporary and ancient compositional vocabularies along with more improvised and rhythmically based tunes.

Quotes:

Anders Nilsson, a guitarist & composer comfortable with everything from free improvisation to avant-garde metal, traverses ghostly mood-setting, bluesy twang and overdriven riffage” - Hank Shteamer, Time Out New York

“Swedish-born and New York-based experimental guitarist Anders Nilsson produces music that is at once bracingly direct and utterly unclassifiable.” - Matt Miller, tuneOUToptIN

“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

“Anders Nilsson has fashioned a set of beautifully mysterious guitar music that seamlessly blends a wide range of influences into a unique sound: brooding, dramatic, and filled with surprises.” – Elliott Sharp
videos: https://youtu.be/DFqYHYSVUz8
https://youtu.be/30cjtuhqQAM
mp3: https://soundcloud.com/hot-and-cold/nocturne