Mats Eilersten

In 1972 Mats Glenngård became a member of MK ll line-up of great, folk-progressive rock band Kebnekajse. In the same year he recorded a fantastic solo album (released by small Gump label) with a help from the members of Fläsket Brinner, Nature, Atlantic Ocean, Jason’s Fleece and of course Kebnekajse. Although Glenngård is known mostly for his fine violin playing, ‘Kosterläge' LP focused just as much on his songwriting and guitar skills. The album delivers four beautiful and very fluid long progressive tracks (featuring his Swedish vocals) alongside some very short folk tunes on the violin. The longer tracks can be compared to the style of other heavy-progressive Swedish bands like Life, November and Saga. This CD has been carefully remastered from the original, analogue source.

Star bassist and HUBRO veteran Mats Eilertsen presents his innovative cut and paste solo project featuring cameos from a supergroup of guests including Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Geir Sundstøl, Thomas Strønen and Per Oddvar Johansen.

Swedish duo Mats/Morgan create their own sphere in the transcontinental music scene, a zone wherein progressive rock, jazz-rock fusion, experimental rock, electronica, and progressive pop overlap and intertwine.
The dizzying mix of sounds that whirls its way through Schack Tati (with typically wry humor, the title is a pun on the Swedish word for "chess" and one of the duo's favorites, the French filmmaker Jacques Tati) was years in the making. The tracks Mats and Morgan toiled over in that rather idyllic setting have an air of endless possibility to them, making possible the disparate stylistic strands of the band's sound to wind together with nary a tangle…