David Stackenäs

David Stackenäs was born in 1974 in Stockholm, Sweden. After finishing his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm he has grown to become one of the mainstays of improvised and creative music in Sweden. Stackenäs works in the field of contemporary jazz and free improvised music. Over the years he has developed a unique way of playing guitar - both prepared with different materials as well as conventional technique and a growing armada of pedals. With a wide range of sounds and techniques he creates music with great imagination and poetry. As a soloist he mainly focuses on acoustic guitars, using a lot of the organic sound-possibilities and timbres the instrument has to offer. 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), Separator on Found You Recordings (2009) and Bricks on Clean Feed 2017. Also plays with LabField (w/ Ingar Zach), Ballrogg (NO), Lina Nyberg Band and Electric Daisy (w/ Sofia Jernberg a.o), Sol Sol, Mattias Risbergs' Mining and has made music for many different theatre- and dancepieces. Since 2000 he has participated on some 60 albums. ”Stackenäs has made one of the most brilliant albums I’ve heard in a long time, so personal that it’s hard to describe. It would really have been enough by writing: listen!” - Orkesterjournalen on Bricks