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  • High in the Lowlands

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    Artist: Mattias Hellberg

    Label: Kning Disk

    The new album ”High In The Lowlands” is an intimate collaboration with longtime friend Mattias Areskog. Only the two of them stuck in a cabin for just a week "High in the Lowlands" is the beautiful result of yet another Hellberg masterpiece. Throughout his work Mattias Hellbergs sad souled songs of Scandinavian heartbreak, be it with Hedros & Hellberg, Healing Hand, The White Moose he always did have a somewhat rootsy approach to the ancient troubadour tradition whose linage Hellbergs music clearly represents.

    The album ”High In The Lowlands” is to be released in Scandinavia 2nd of November 2011.

  • Mattias Hellberg

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    Artist: Mattias Hellberg

    Label: Silence Records

    Mattias Hellberg started out in Nymphet Noodlers as a singer together with Martin Hederos, piano, Mattias Bärjed, guitar, Jan Martens, bass and Jesper Karlsson, drums. Very soon they were discovered by Ebbot Lundberg (Soundtrack Of Our Lives) who produced their first album (1994) and later they also got a great fan in Wayne Cramer(MC5). The band disbanded in 1996 and Bärjed and Hederos became members of Soundtrack Of Our Lives and Jan Martens started his own band. Unfortunately none of these bands needed a singer with a harsh voice so Mattias got “left over”. Not only a great singer with a great voice but also an excellent guitarist he played a little here and a little there with bands like Diamond Dogs and Alimony for a period and toured US with The Hellacopters on their 1998 December tour.

    New Years Day 2000 was supposed to be a day of reunion for the Nymphets but most of the members never showed up, probably due to sufferings from New Years Eve... Mattias Hellberg and Martin Hederos found themselves alone in the studio and to pass time they played some covers, just piano and vocals. The engineer pressed the record button and a record was released later that year (Gravitation). The duo was praised to the sky by the critics for their low-keyed interpretations of the songs of sad masters performed with melancholy, soul and a gospel feeling accompanied by a padding and dextrous piano.
    Martin Hederos’ sensitive and fondling way of playing the piano together with Matti...