Anekdoten is a Swedish

Sweden

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 progressive rock

Progressive rock

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 band, composed of guitarist

Guitarist

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/vocalist Nicklas Barker

Nicklas Barker

Nicklas Barker formerly Berg is a Swedish musician best known as the founder, guitarist, vocalist and keyboardist of the progressive rock band Anekdoten. He is also involved other band and projects such as horror soundtrack band Morte Macabre, the psychelic improvisation rock band My Brother The...

, cellist/keyboardist

Keyboardist

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 Anna Sofi Dahlberg, bassist

Bassist

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/vocalist Jan Erik Liljeström and drummer

Drummer

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 Peter Nordins. They are notable for the use of the mellotron

Mellotron

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 and their heavy sound dominated by a pounding bass guitar. Their music is associated with the tradition of 1970s progressive rock

Progressive rock

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 music, especially that of King Crimson

King Crimson

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.

Studio albums

• Vemod
  Vemod
  Vemod is the title of the first studio album released by the Swedish art rock band Anekdoten. According to the Trivia page of the Anektdoten website, the word "vemod" means in Swedish "[tender] sadness / [pensive] melancholy."-Track listing:...
  
  (1993)
• Nucleus
  Nucleus (Anekdoten album)
  Nucleus is the second full-length studio album by the Swedish progressive rock band Anekdoten. The album was released in 1995.- Track list :# "Nucleus"# "Harvest"# "Book of Hours" a) Pendulum Swing / b) The Book# "Raft"# "Rubankh"# "Here"...
  
  (1995)
• From Within
  From Within (Anekdoten album)
  From Within is the third full-length studio album released by the Swedish progressive rock band Anekdoten. The album was released in 1999.- Track list :# "From Within" – 7:25# "Kiss Of Life" – 4:40# "Groundbound" – 5:24# "Hole" – 11:08...
  
  (1999)
• Gravity
  Gravity (Anekdoten album)
  Gravity is the fourth studio album by progressive rock band Anekdoten released in June 2003 in both CD and Vinyl LP formats. The first Japanese LP edition contained a bonus CD of material recorded live at Nearfest 2000.-Track listing:...
  
  (2003)
• A Time Of Day
  A Time of Day
  A Time Of Day is the fifth studio album by progressive rock band Anekdoten and it has been produced by the band itself. It took three years of song writing and four months of recording to make this album.-Track listing:# "The Great Unknown"...
  
  (2007)

Live albums

• Live EP (1997)
• Official Bootleg: Live in Japan (1998)
• Waking the Dead, Live in Japan 2005 (2005)

Morte Macabre

In 1998, Nicklas Barker and Peter Nordins of Anekdoten, along with Stefan Dimle

Stefan Dimle

Stefan Dimle is the bassplayer in the progressive band Morte Macabre and he is a former member of Landberk and Paatos. He is the driving force in the company Mellotronen who also is the organiser of the floating rock festival named the Melloboat which are held aboard the ship Galaxy...

 (Landberk

Landberk

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, Paatos

Paatos

Paatos is a Swedish rock band that was formed in 1999 by Reine Fiske and Stefan Dimle , Petronella Nettermalm, Ricard Nettermalm and Johan Wallen...

) and Reine Fiske (Landberk

Landberk

Landberk was a Swedish prog/art rock band, characterized by the dark, sombre tone of their music. They were notable for their utilisation of the mellotron, which was equally as important as the guitar in their melodies...

, Morte Macabre, Paatos

Paatos

Paatos is a Swedish rock band that was formed in 1999 by Reine Fiske and Stefan Dimle , Petronella Nettermalm, Ricard Nettermalm and Johan Wallen...

, The Guild) created the album Symphonic Holocaust

Symphonic Holocaust

Symphonic Holocaust is an album by progressive rock band Morte Macabre. The band is made up of Anekdoten and Landberk members.-Track listing:#"Apoteosi Del Mistero"#"Threats Of Stark Reality"#"Sequenza Ritmica E Tema"#"Lullaby"#"Quiet Drops"...

. The album mostly consists of covered themes from horror movies, such as Cannibal Holocaust

Cannibal Holocaust

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and Rosemary's Baby

Rosemary's Baby (film)

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. The music is instrumental and characterised by improvisation and heavy use of mellotron

Mellotron

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 and synthesizers.)

My Brother the Wind

Nicklas Barker has since 2010 been involved in a side project called My Brother the Wind. A debut CD of improvised psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock

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entitled Twilight In The Crystal Cabinet was released in May 2010.

External links

• [ Allmusic.com: Biography]
• Official homepage
• Myspace
• progarchives profile
• 2010 interview with Nicklas Barker on Prog Sphere