Artistas del mundo: Music is the Weapon (Sweden/Suecia)

Music Is The Weapon

This 12 man music-collective started out as a tribute band to one of Africa’s greatest musicians ever known, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. With time, they went from exclusively playing his music to creating afrobeat music of their own.

This powerful, strong, 12 man band has moved on to being a innovative, creative band, with the same spirit as before, now even stronger with a personal sound. Taking afrobeat music into the 21st century and creating their own version, interpreting what afrobeat music is to them, giving the music Fela Kuti ones created a new sound.

Music is the Weapon is a band built on friendship, love, energy and strong musicians with passion for Afrobeat.

In January 2009 they recorded their debut album with exclusively own material. The demand for this soulful band was larger than expected and long before the album release in the beginning of May the band received a lot of attention from newspapers, blogs and radio stations (such as P3 Rytm and P3 Lab). After the release the album got nice reviews in Swedish and international press and got a nomination to the Manifest Award (Swedish independent grammy award)

So far, all of Music is the Weapons performances have been crowded and sold out, and with an audience more than satisfied. Music is the weapon is now looking forward to spreading their energy, love and music around the world.

With Music is the weapon on stage, you can count on, a captivating, energetic horn section, each horn player with a different sound and character, this band is swinging for real. With magic rhythms in the spirit of Tony Allen, you find yourself dancing like you’ve never danced before, to rough, passionate, Nigerian funk.

You can find them at www.musicistheweapon.se, where you find some of the songs from our album, with guest artists such as; Daddy Boastin from Latin Kings, and the poet Lasse Fabel.

Members:

Frida Winlöf - Trumpet

Christopher Thorén – Tenor sax

Jonas Rönnqvist – Alt sax

Jakob Gustafsson – Baritone sax

Fredrik Brändström – Rhodes, Organ

Jesper Lundquist - Guitar

Nils Kakoseos - Guitar

Hampus Nordgren - Bas

Wille Alin - Drums

Celso Paco – Percussion, voc.

Jon Olofsson - Percussion

Mattias Hidemo - Claves

Contact:

Christopher Thorén

Ejdergatan 4C

41668 Göteborg

Tel + 46 (0)734 - 026 491

musicistheweapon@hotmail.com

www.musicistheweapon.se