Tetuzi Akiyama, Gul3

Tetuzi Akiyama - guitars. Johan Arrias - saxophone, electronics, no input mixingboard. Leo Svensson - cello, organ. Henrik Olsson - drums, electronics, piano. Artwork and screenprint by Peter Larsson. Mixed by Giuseppe Ielasi. Mastered by Daniel Karlsson. Produced by Johan Berthling. Album and songtitles are inspired by the lyrics of Moondog (Louis Thomas Hardin). Recorded in Stockholm 2006. Limited edition of 250 hand numbered copies. The cover is hand printed by its author on recycled covers coming from other deleted vinyl records. Only 125 copies will be available in retail and wholesale. The rest will be kept by artists involved in the project. The Swedish trio GUL 3 was formed in 1996 by Johan Arrias (saxophone), Leo Svensson (cello) and Henrik Olsson (percussion) and has since been making music in the borderland between composition and improvisation, acoustic and electronic, melodic and noise. Gul3 + Tetuzi Akiyama story : In year 2000 their debut album Soul (produced by Mats Gustafsson) was released on Crazy Wisdom. In 2005 their second album Singlar 2005 (produced by Goran Kafjes) was released on Headspin Recordings. In 2006 they started their collaboration with a Japanese guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama touring Sweden at the time, which resulted in one hour long broadcast on national Swedish radio and a studio recording (produced by Johan Barthling). In 2008 Gul 3 and Tetuzi Akiyama dis two shows in Poland and got in touch with MonotypeRec. The recordings they did back in 2006 were finally to be released.