Mats/Morgan Band

Swedish drummer Morgan Ågren (given birth to in 1967) and keyboardist Mats ?-berg (given birth to in 1972, and blind since delivery) began using music together from quite an early on age — actually, Ågren was just 14 and ?-berg a decade previous in 1981 if they performed being a duo on the behest of the concert promoter within the children’ hometown of Umeå within the north of Sweden. And they are recording and executing together since. Ågren and ?-berg had been apparently smitten by the music of Frank Zappa from the beginning of the partnership, and produced the Zappa tribute music group Zappesteetoot in 1984. After getting familiar with the set, Frank himself was impressed more than enough to summon them to the level to perform along with his group in a Stockholm present throughout a tour of Sweden in 1988. Although Ågren and ?-berg had been subsequently invited to become listed on Zappa’s touring music group, those plans hardly ever found fruition as Zappa became more and more ill in the prostate cancers that ultimately had taken his lifestyle in 1993. The drummer and keyboardist had been in the substantial ensemble — that was originally slated to add Zappa before illness avoided his involvement — that performed beneath the moniker Zappa’s Universe, and whose November 1991 tribute concert on the Ritz in NEW YORK was documented over the Zappa’s Universe record released by Verve in 1993. Back Sweden, Ågren and ?-berg acquired plans of their very own, and started documenting their extremely achieved avant-prog, fusion, and occasionally unclassifiable music on Ågren’s Best Sound Entertainment (UAE) label, you start with the duo’s debut record, Tendencies and Other Illnesses, documented between 1993 and 1995 and released in 1996. A small number of Mats/Morgan UAE albums made an appearance over the pursuing years, including 1997’s The Music or the amount of money…, a two-disc affair split into a Mats disk along with a Morgan disk; 1998’s Radio Da Da as well as the Teenage Tapes, the previous digging in to the duo’s archive for recordings from 1992, as well as the second option foraging even more back (completely to 1981) in to the earliest many years of their musical pairing; 2001’s Live, documented in a Stockholm golf club day in 1999 and offering an extended Mats/Morgan Music group sextet lineup with Ågren and ?-berg became a member of by Morgan’s sibling Jimmy on electric guitar, bassist Tommy Tordsson, and Robert Elovsson and Eric Carlsson on keyboards; and 2002’s On Surroundings with Guests, an record of radio tapes having a quintet Mats/Morgan Music group (?-berg, the Ågren brothers, Tordsson, and Elovsson) with, because the name suggested, participation by various visitor musicians on chosen monitors, including Meshuggah guitarist Fredrik Thordendal and multi-instrumentalist Simon Steensland (on Theremin). The quintet Mats/Morgan Music group, now comprising the primary lineup first noticed on On Surroundings with Guests, obtained wider publicity upon signing towards the internationally distributed Cuneiform label in 2004; the next calendar year, Cuneiform released the seventh Mats/Morgan record, Thanks for Traveling around, a studio documenting with live reward tracks. 3 years afterwards, the label released the Compact disc/DVD established High temperature Beats Live/Tourbook 1991-2007, the Compact disc featuring Mats/Morgan Music group concert selections documented between 2005 and 2007, as well as the DVD comprising 16 years’ value of Morgan Ågren recordings, from both live and studio room settings, which range from single drums to huge ensembles. Cuneiform after that embarked on a thorough reissue advertising campaign of Mats/Morgan’s UAE back again catalog, you start with 1996’s debut Tendencies and Other Illnesses, reissued in remastered type in 2008 and having a 15-minute reward collage monitor. A reissue from the Music or the amount of money… (today with the name slightly amended towards the Music or the amount of money?) followed this year 2010, using the previous Mats and Morgan discs mashed up collectively and 45 mins of later on Mats/Morgan Music group materials added. A reissue of 2001’s Live adopted in 2011, and in 2013 Cuneiform put together the 1998 albums Radio Da Da as well as the Teenage Tapes right into a remastered double-disc arranged, adding two paths towards the previous and growing the second option from 28 to 36 paths, producing a 54-monitor compendium of Mats/Morgan music extending from 1981 to 2008. In 2014 Cuneiform released Schack Tati, Mats/Morgan’s 1st new studio recording since Thanks a lot for Flying around.