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Mattias IA Eklundh is a sparkling, spirited guitarist from Gothenburg (Sweden) who describes his style as freak guitar, with an overall passion for musical weirdness, as documented on his latest release, "Freak Guitar".  His guitar of choice is an Apple Horn model. Eklundh has played guitar since 1980, and frankly confirms his career goal, "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 requested to name his preferred effect for the guitar, Eklundh responded with, "Distortion, never use anything else," and submitted his musicial goals, "Trying to make guitar stuff that everybody can sink their teeth into, not just guitar players." He would like to someday study the various instruments of the orchestra real thoroughly some day to be able to write some strange tunes, and is currently 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 greatest satisfaction? "To be able to wake up everyday with a sinister smile and do exactly what I want to do: make music," he answers indisputably.
 Eklundh mentions ongoing and upcoming projects thusly, "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 one solo album ("Freak Guitar") and participation on a number of other recordings (Bumblefoot (Featuring Ron Thal) "9.11", Tobias Hurwitz Band "Zen Shred Zone", Locomotive Breath "Change Of Track", Martin Motnik "Bass Invader").
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