Mattias IA Eklundh is a potent, dazzling guitar player from Gothenburg (Sweden) who expresses his style as freak guitar, with an overall passion for musical weirdness, as one can appreciate on his latest album, "Freak Guitar".  His favorite guitar is an Apple Horn model. Eklundh has played guitar since 1980, and candidly avows his career aspiration, "To do what I am doing now: compose weird music, try to explore the electric guitar little by little...and of course world domination, herh, herh..."
When asked to name his number one effect for the guitar, Eklundh answered back with, "Distortion, never use anything else," and then cited his musicial goals, "Trying to make guitar stuff that everybody can sink their teeth into, not just guitar players." He hopes to one day study the various instruments of the orchestra real thoroughly some day to be able to write some strange tunes, and is at this time listening to Frank Zappa, Howard Shore ("his soundtrack to the movie "Crash" is excellent guitar music"), Shakti with John McLaughlin, Los Lobos and Messhuggah. His utmost fulfillment? "To be able to wake up everyday with a sinister smile and do exactly what I want to do: make music," he affirms unquestionably.
 Eklundh details continuing and future undertakings in his own words, "As mentioned above, the concert for Electric Guitar, Dildo and Orchestra (which takes a lot of time), a forthcoming album with my band Freak Kitchen, a two-week seminar called Freak Guitar Camp 2000 in Sweden this summer, touring, etc."
Guitar Nine Records visitors have compared the playing style and/or musical approach of Mattias IA Eklundh to guitarists such as Bumblefoot, Johan, Steve Vai, Frank Zappa, Ron Thal, Mattias IA Ecklundh, Joe Satriani, Todd Duane, Buckethead, Doug Aldrich, John Petrucci, Ron Jarzombek, Dweezil Zappa, John 5, Johan Randen and others.
Eklundh's discography (available here at Guitar Nine Records) includes several solo albums ("Freak Guitar", "Freak Guitar - The Road Less Traveled") and participation on a number of other recordings (Jason Becker Trib. "Warmth In The Wilderness", Bumblefoot (Featuring Ron Thal) "9.11", Freak Kitchen "Dead Soul Men", Freak Kitchen "Spanking Hour", Freak Kitchen "Freak Kitchen", Freak Kitchen "Appetizer", Freak Kitchen "Move", Freak Kitchen "Organic", Jonas Hellborg "Art Metal", Tobias Hurwitz Band "Zen Shred Zone", Locomotive Breath "Change Of Track", Martin Motnik "Bass Invader", Johan Randen "Version 2.0").
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