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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 size-medium wp-image-12498" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Erik_Nilsson_Main-300x300.jpg" alt="Erik Nilsson" width="300" height="300" /></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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Erik Nilsson's sophomore album<em> Hearing Things</em> will see release on 30 July 2015.

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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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