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About Kenneth
THE BEGINNING
Kenneth began exploring music by playing organ as a young boy but soon moved over to electric bass in his early teens.
– My first influences came from groups like Deep Purple, Kiss, Sweet, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin etc but I soon changed focus to groups like Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Return to Forever and Brand X, to name a few, says Kenneth.
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STUDIES
After two years of music studies at Ingesunds Folkhögskola in Arvika he then moved on to study music at Gothenburg University, where he graduated as a Master of arts in music education in 1990.
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TEACHER AND FREELANCE MUSICIAN
After four years at the university he started out as a freelance musician in the Gothenburg area. Besides touring in sweden and japan he also started teaching bass at several schools including:
Ljungskile Folkhögskola
Södra Vätterbygdens Folkhögskola
Billströmska Folkhögskolan
Per Brahe Gymnasiet
Fässbergsgymnasiet
Alströmergymnasiet
He also had classes and students at the Gothenburg University for a couple of years.
In the year of 1998 he did a memorable tour with the legendary Sixto "Sugarman" Rodriquez, famous from the Oscar awarded film "Searching for Sugarman" by Malik Bendjelloul.
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PRODUCER AND PUBLISHER
In 1999 he was hired as a producer/engineer at TMP Media group in Gothenburg, making all sorts of audio recordings for commercial radio and multimedia. He remained with them for six years.
Besides playing and teaching music, his interest for educational material grew and in 1996 he released an educational book about sightreading music called A Vista-teknik, hur du blir en bättre notläsare, del 1-rytmbilder. (Also availabel in english titled: The easy way to sightread rhythms). A couple of years later he released a book with arrangements of hymns for classical guitar called Psalmer för Gitarr – 28 kända psalmer arrangerade för sologitarr. This book was cowritten with Bengt Jonsson-Gårdmo, a great guitarist from Gothenburg. He also published some christian books after that. All is released on his own publishing company KHMP Förlag.
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WEST OF EDEN
For many years Kenneth was the bassplayer with West of Eden, a critically acclaimed folk-rock band from Gothenburg who plays music with influences from celtic folk music.
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WRITING HIS OWN MUSIC
A project called Meek Men is a songwriting collaboration with Jonas Lundberg. Kenneth writes most of the music and Jonas most of the lyrics. Meek Men released their debut album Dumdedum in october 2016.
His latest release – Get Up, Get Up, Get Up!, an instrumental piece with the elctric bass in focus, is out on october 30 2023. Listen here.
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BASS & GUITAR
His main instrument is electric bass but he has played the guitar for almost as long as the bass.
He is familiar with many styles all from rock, blues, gospel, soul, jazz, fusion and pop to latin music and folk music etc.
Kenneth has performed with artist and musicians like:
Sixto "Sugarman" Rodriguez
Larry Carlton
Alex Acuña
Ole Børud
Frank Ådahl
Anders Wihk (Same Tree Different Fruit)
Nils Landgren
Johan Löfcrantz Ramsay
Bendik Hofseth (Steps Ahead)
Erik Igelström
Emil Ernebro
Joel Hagen
Lena Maria
Ola Magnell
Hasse "Kvinnaböske" Andersson
Uno Svenningsson
West of Eden
Gladys Del Pilar
Tripple and Touch
Ingemar Olsson
Leif Kronlunds Orkester
Putte Wickman
Göran Bejstam
André De Lange
Karin & Peter Burman
Steely Band (Steely Dan cover band)
Erik Tilling
Erik Mjönes
Sounds of Silence (Paul Simon cover band)
Janschie Börjesson
West Coast Big Band
Mission Big Band
etc.
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BASS RECORDINGS FOR YOUR MUSIC
Kenneth is currently living in Alingsås, Sweden and if you need a bass player for a gig or recording just give him a call and he will put down some low end on your music!