No Effects:
Sten Sandell - piano/harmonium, Katt Hernandez - violin, David Stackenäs - acoustic guitar.

Spår 06 - Hernandez/Sandell Stackenäs

Mats Gustafsson/David Stackenäs duo
Mats G. and David S. deliver a fir-soaked album of "Swedish Mountain Blues" just for you. 

Excerpted from KEN VANDERMARK'S Liner Notes: "Listening to the music on this album by Mats and David, and considering its reference to the Blues (in title at least), I am left to ponder how strongly Black American Blues music is ingrained into the cultural DNA of even a middle-aged, white, middle-class citizen of the United States. Also I am forced to realize how foreign those methods of expression might seem to artists born into European history. Perhaps this subconscious content of American Blues is as significant a component in the difference between the sound of American improvised music and its European counterpart as the issue of "time." 

...so I think that this set of pieces is about a feeling, if it is meant to be connected to the Blues. And the feeling here is bordered by the somber baritone hymn that begins and ends the album. Inside that frame are a series of heartfelt statements made by close European friends of mine- but even though they're close to me I realize that I experience their music as a foreigner. When I listen to this material it's colored by American ears, and no matter how much time I spend in Europe with European artists I know that I will always be the American in the band."

Bumble Bee Blues (To Ake Hodell)

Graven. Med Eislerz. Composed by Hanns Eisler. Lyrics by Kurt Tucholsky. Arranged by David Stackenäs. Translated to Swedish by Carsten Palmær. Drawing by Jenny Bunnel Svenberg.

Eislerz: Sofia Berg-Böhm - vocals, David Stackenäs - guitar, Susana Santos Silva - trumpet, Nils Berg - flute, Karin Hammar - trombone, Joe Williamson - bass, Johan Graden - piano

With kind permission from Deutscher Verlag für Musik Leipzig

Graven

04 Bucket of Songs

CIRCADIA 2.1 MIX - 2

CIRCADIA 2.2 MIX - 2

Excerpt from Plaza Hidalgo, a track from my solo album "Bricks" released on portuguese label Clean Feed in May 2017. Recorded by Göran Stegborn in Vittinge kyrka, Uppsala, Sweden

Plaza Hidalgo Exerpt

Excerpt from Limache, a track from my solo album "Bricks" released on portuguese label Clean Feed in May 2017. Recorded by Göran Stegborn in Vittinge kyrka, Uppsala, Sweden

Limache Exerpt

Kim1

duo with Kim Myhr @ Fylkingen, Stockholm jan 2012

Kim2

Ingar Zach (NO) - perc+electronics
David Stackenäs (SE) - guitars
Giuseppe Ielasi - mix + edit


Straight A's In Constant Sorrow

from the album Dayton's Bluff. Particular Recordings 2018

02 - Rust Belt

Git O Key Intro Zauberberg (#04)

DAVID STACKENÄS (GUITAR)
Has toured as soloist and with many different groups in Europe, the US, Japan and the Middle East. In 2000 David released critics´ acclaimed cd the guitar on swedish label Häpna and has since then released bow on Kning-Disk (2006) and Separator on Found You Recordings (2009). Also plays with LabField (w/ Ingar Zach), SEVAL, Circadia, Lina Nyberg Band and the New Songs (w/ Sofia Jernberg a.o) and has participated as musician and made music for many different theatre- and dance pieces. 
Played with, among many others:
Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Lina Nyberg, Sofia Jernberg, Rhodri Davies, Paul Lovens, Axel Dörner, Sten Sandell, Thurston Moore, Mazen Kerbaj, Christine Abdelnour, Ken Vandermark, Paal Nilssen-Love, Cecilia Persson, Jim O'Rourke, Tatsuya Nakatani  

“Creating something different -- not to mention memorable -- with the world's most popular instrument, the guitar, often seems as unlikely as winning the national lottery. Yet young Swedish guitarist David Stackenäs has done so on this short, cunningly enigmatic disc.”
Ken Waxman, Jazz Weekly on the guitar

Has, among others, played with:
Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Nikos Veliotis, Rhodri Davies, Mats Gustafsson, Wilbert deJoode, Paul Lovens, Axel Dörner, Sten Sandell, Raymond Strid, Ingar Zach, Xavier Charles, Thurston Moore, Mazen Kerbaj, Christine Sehnaoui, Michael Zerang, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Guillermo Gregorio, Joe Williamson, Johan Berthling, Ken Vandermark, Paal Nilssen-Love, Jim O’Rourke, Magnus Broo 

David Stackenas

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