Today’s pick is Swedish rock group Mats & Morgan. The group is named after the two principal instrumentalists / composers: Mats Öberg (keyboards) and Morgan Ågren (drums).
They met as children and have had a lifelong bond playing music. Their music is a wild mix of jazz, rock and classical that is pretty hard to classify. They first came under my radar when they were part of the all-star band that Frank Zappa assembled for the Zappa’s Universe shows in 1993 (right before Zappa passed away…he was originally supposed to participate in the tribute shows but was too ill).
Most of Mats & Morgan albums are on small, independent labels (most recently awesome DC-based Cuneiform Records) and are generally not on Spotify.
However, their “best-of” collection is! So I’ll pick that for today, as it is a pretty great overview of their body of work.
Bonus footage: The complete TV broadcast of the Zappa’s Universe concerts are on Youtube.