Anekdoten is a Swedish

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band, composed of

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Nicklas Barker Nicklas Barker, formerly Berg (born 9 July 1969), is a Swedish musician best known as the founder, guitarist, vocalist and keyboardist of the progressive rock band Anekdoten Anekdoten is a Sweden, Swedish progressive rock band, composed of guit ...

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Anna Sofi Dahlberg,

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Jan Erik Liljeström and

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Peter Nordins. They are notable for the use of the

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and their heavy sound dominated by a pounding bass guitar. Their music is associated with the tradition of 1970s

music, especially that of

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. Since 2015 former The Church guitarist Marty Willson-Piper has been touring with the band.

Discography

Studio albums

* ''

Vemod ''Vemod'' is the title of the first studio album released by the Swedish art rock band Anekdoten. According to the Trivia page of the Anektdoten website, the word "vemod" means in Swedish "(...) endersadness / ensivemelancholy." Track listing ...

'' (1993) * ''

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'' (1995) * '' From Within'' (1999) * ''Gravity'' (2003) * '' A Time of Day'' (2007) * ''

Until All the Ghosts Are Gone Until may refer to Music *''Until'', a 1967 album by Robin Kenyatta *''Until'', a 2008 album by One Little Plane *"Until", a song by Wilfred Sanderson *A version of the song "Anema e core (1950 song), Anema e core" with English lyrics *Until... ...

'' (2015)

Compilations

* '' Chapters'' (2009)

Live albums

* '' Live EP'' (1997) * '' Folkoperan, Live in Stockholm'' (1997) * '' Official Bootleg: Live in Japan'' (1998) * '' Waking the Dead, Live in Japan 2005'' (2005)

Morte Macabre

In 1998, Nicklas Barker and Peter Nordins of Anekdoten, along with Stefan Dimle ( Landberk, Paatos) and Reine Fiske ( Landberk, Morte Macabre, Paatos, The Guild) released the album '' Symphonic Holocaust''. The album mostly consists of covered themes from horror movies, such as ''

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'' and '' Rosemary's Baby''. The music is instrumental and characterised by improvisation and heavy use of

and

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My Brother the Wind

Nicklas Barker has since 2010 been involved in a side project called My Brother The Wind. A debut CD of improvised

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entitled ''Twilight In The Crystal Cabinet'' was released in May 2010.

References

External links

* Allmusic.com: Biographybr>Official homepageMyspace2010 interview with Nicklas Barker on Prog Sphere
{{DEFAULTSORT:Anekdoten Swedish progressive rock groups Swedish psychedelic rock music groups Musical groups established in 1991 1991 establishments in Sweden