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<h1>Erik Nilsson</h1>
<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-12498" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Erik_Nilsson_Main-300x300.jpg" alt="Erik Nilsson" width="265" height="265" /></a><i>“delights at every turn... an unfailingly tuneful and entertaining whole that transcends its techniques through sheer musicality”</i> – <b>Music is Good</b>

Drawing on folk, classical and electronica, Erik Nilsson blends acoustic instruments with field recordings and computer-generated sounds, crafting music akin to early Four Tet, Tortoise at their most minimal, and fellow Scandinavian soundscapers The Gentleman Losers. His Hidden Shoal debut <i>Hearing Things</i> advances the compositional strategy Nilsson first explored on his acclaimed debut <i>Recollage</i>: simple rhythmic and melodic elements are manipulated and recontextualised into richly textured, emotive pieces.

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<h3>Discography</h3>
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<h4>Tail Lights</h4>
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April 2016
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'Tail Lights' is the first single taken from the forthcoming reissue of Erik Nilsson's superb debut album <em>Recollage. </em>The album will see release on the 23rd of May 2016.

There is a vibrant playfulness across <i>Recollage</i>’s nine tracks, with each song mapping out its own discrete world. Nilsson skilfully mixes electronics with live instruments and field recordings, before subjecting the songs to digital manipulation, creating an uncanny and arresting blend that is often as technically dizzying as it is musically and emotionally engaging. Glitchy yet exquisitely tuneful, <i>Recollage</i>’s music-box melodies bring to mind Björk’s <i>Vespertine</i>, while its compositional style is reminiscent of The Books’ cut-up approach to songcraft.

The album is clearly a vivid precursor to acclaimed second album <em>Hearing Things</em> (2015), but also its own unique creature. First released through <a title="Luxus Arctica" href="http://luxusarctica.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Luxus-Artica Records</a> in 2011, <em>Recollage</em> has received extra instrumentation, been fully re-mastered, and also includes the original version of album track ‘Rumore del Roma’.

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<h4>Hearing Things</h4>
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July 2015
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Drawing on folk, classical and electronica, Erik Nilsson blends acoustic instruments with field recordings and computer-generated sounds, crafting music akin to early Four Tet, Tortoise at their most minimal, and fellow Scandinavian soundscapers The Gentleman Losers. His Hidden Shoal debut <em>Hearing Things</em> advances the compositional strategy Nilsson first explored on his acclaimed debut <em>Recollage</em>: simple rhythmic and melodic elements are manipulated and recontextualised into richly textured, emotive pieces.

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<h3>Biography</h3>
Erik Nilsson lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Initially inspired by the grunge scene, Erik first picked up his mother’s old, busted guitar in his early teens and formed rock quartet Banda de Ladrones. Upon hearing Björk some years later, Erik became fascinated with audio manipulation and spent much of his time in the following years mangling samples on his digital workstation. Meanwhile, his musical tastes and influences evolved and expanded into folk, jazz, classical and contemporary experimental music.

Erik’s previous work includes the album <i>Recollage</i>, released by Luxus-Artica Records, and the score for <i>Ahmed – Almost 13</i>, a Norwegian documentary screened at the prestigious International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam. His music can be heard in <i>Project Power</i>, which chronicles civic resistance to privatisation in New Brunswick, Canada, and in <i>Are You Still There?</i>, finalist in the 2011 edition of the short film competition The 24 Hour Film Race. Erik is a regular contributor to the Disquiet Junto Project, an online collective exploring the creative potential of constraints. He is also singer and guitarist of folk-rock trio Otinget, whose debut album will be released in 2015.

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<h3>Licensing</h3>
Erik Nilsson's music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title="Contact Us" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.

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