Svante Henryson
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Svante Henryson is a composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, cellist, electric bassist and double bassist, active within jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

, classical music
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

, and hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

.

Childhood & Studies

Svante Henryson grew up in Umeå
Umeå
- Transport :The road infrastructure in Umeå is well-developed, with two European highways passing through the city. About 4 km from the city centre is the Umeå City Airport...

 in northern Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

. His father was a Full Professor of Education, and his mother a Director of Studies in English at Umeå University
Umeå University
Umeå University is a university in Umeå in the mid-northern region of Sweden. The university was founded in 1965 and is the fifth oldest within Sweden's present borders....

.

At age 12, after falling in love-at-a-distance with a female bassist at a concert, Svante began playing electric bass
Electric Bass
Electric bass can mean:*Electric upright bass, the electric version of a double bass*Electric bass guitar*Bass synthesizer*Big Mouth Billy Bass, a battery-powered singing fish...

 in a rock band. Two years later, he switched to jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 and double bass
Double bass
The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

. A concert with Stan Getz
Stan Getz
Stanley Getz was an American jazz saxophone player. Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of his idol, Lester Young. Coming to prominence in the late 1940s with Woody Herman's big band, Getz is described by critic Scott...

 at the Umeå Jazz Festival
Umeå Jazz Festival
Umeå Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival in Umeå, Sweden. The festival comprises some 30 concerts held mainly at stages in the Umeå folkets hus and the Norrland Opera. Both Swedish and international groups and artists perform, mainly in genres related to modern jazz and improvisation. The...

 made up his mind about becoming a musician.
Another life-changing experience was hearing the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is a Swedish orchestra based in Stockholm.The orchestra was founded in 1902 as the Stockholm Concert Society . The orchestra became a permanent ensemble in 1914. Since 1926, it has been based in the Stockholm Concert Hall...

 in concert in Östersund
Östersund
Östersund is an urban area in Jämtland in the middle of Sweden. It is the seat of Östersund Municipality and the capital of Jämtland County. Östersund is located at the shores of Sweden's fifth largest lake, Storsjön, opposite the island Frösön, and is the only city in Jämtland. Östersund is the...

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He left his hometown already at age 14 to study music: two years in Härnösand
Härnösand
Härnösand is a locality and the seat of Härnösand Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 18,003 inhabitants in 2005. It is called "the gate to the High Coast" because of the world heritage landscape rises just some miles north of Härnösand...

, three years at Ingesund College of Music
Ingesund College of Music
Ingesund College of Music is located in Arvika in the Swedish province of Värmland. It is the music department of Karlstad University....

 and (later) one year at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague is a university level school of music, dance, drama, film, TV and multi-media studies.- Faculties :*Film and TV School - FAMU*Music Faculty - HAMU*Theatre Faculty - DAMU-Notable alumni:...

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Early professional years

Still in his teens and halfway through music college, he became a member of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
The Oslo-Filharmonien is a symphony orchestra based in Oslo, Norway. The orchestra was founded in 1919, and has since 1977 had its home in the Oslo Concert Hall. The orchestra consists of 69 musicians in the string section, 16 in the woodwinds, 15 in brass, 5 in percussionists, 1 harpist, and 1...

 under Mariss Jansons
Mariss Jansons
Mariss Ivars Georgs Jansons is a Latvian conductor, the son of conductor Arvīds Jansons. His mother, the singer Iraida Jansons, who was Jewish, gave birth to him in hiding in Riga, Latvia, after her father and brother were killed in the Riga Ghetto...

 1983-1986.
After making his solo debut with the Oslo Philharmonic in Vanhal's Bass Concerto , he became the orchestra's Assistant Principal Bassist.

1987-1989 he was Principal Bassist of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra led by Iona Brown
Iona Brown
Iona Brown, OBE was a British violinist and conductor.Elizabeth Iona Brown was born in Salisbury. Her parents Antony and Fiona were both musicians...

.

After a drastic change in direction,
he became bass guitarist of Yngwie Malmsteen's band 1989-1992.
During this period he started playing cello
Cello
The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

, an instrument on which he is an autodidact.

Henrysons first solo album, Enkidu, was released in 1997.
He has also been prominently featured on many other albums in a very wide musical area.
As a session player he has worked with Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...

, Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams
David Ryan Adams is an American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter, from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Initially part of the group Whiskeytown, Adams left the band and released his first solo album Heartbreaker in 2000...

, Nestor Marconi, Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...

 and Steve Gadd
Steve Gadd
Steve Gadd is an American session and studio drummer, notable for his work with popular musicians from a wide range of genres.-Biography:...

.

Today

Svante Henryson is a composer of orchestral music, as well as choral music and chamber music
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

.
His "Electric Bass Concerto", composed in 2007, introduces the electric bass
Electric Bass
Electric bass can mean:*Electric upright bass, the electric version of a double bass*Electric bass guitar*Bass synthesizer*Big Mouth Billy Bass, a battery-powered singing fish...

 in a new role as a classical solo instrument.
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...

 and Henryson collaborated as songwriters on the album "For the Stars
For the Stars
-Track listing:...

".

Svante Henryson is an ECM
ECM (record label)
ECM is a record label founded in Munich, Germany, in 1969 by Manfred Eicher. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a wide variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres...

 recording artist, in various formations with Jon Balke
Jon Balke
Jon Balke is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer currently known for his Magnetic North Orchestra.He began with classical piano, but switched to blues at 12, though today he performs within several genres. At the age of 18 he joined Arild Andersen's quartet. By the mid-1980s he worked on his own...

, Arve Henriksen
Arve Henriksen
Arve Henriksen is a Norwegian trumpet player, renowned for his distinctive, flute-like sound on the trumpet, inspired by the sound of the Japanese shakuhachi flute. He also sings; his unique wordless vocalising was central to Chiaroscuro, where he often sings in a soprano's range...

, Ketil Bjørnstad
Ketil Bjørnstad
Ketil Bjørnstad is a Norwegian pianist and composer. Initially trained as a classical pianist, Bjørnstad discovered jazz at an early age and has embraced the emergence of "European jazz"....

, Nils Petter Molvaer, Arild Andersen
Arild Andersen
Arild Andersen is a Norwegian bass player.Born in Lillestrøm, Norway, he started out as a member of the Jan Garbarek Quartet , with Terje Rypdal and Jon Christensen...

, Marilyn Mazur
Marilyn Mazur
Marilyn Mazur is a percussionist, drummer, composer, vocalist, pianist, dancer and bandleader. She was born in New York and has lived in Denmark from age six. She is of Polish and African-American descent. Since 1975, she has worked as a percussionist with various groups, among them Six Winds with...

, Tord Gustavsen
Tord Gustavsen
Tord Gustavsen is a jazz pianist. Before studying music, Gustavsen finished a degree in psychology. He studied jazz at the Conservatory of Music Trondheim and jazz theory at the University of Oslo. He has toured internationally several times has been a bandleader of a trio and a later ensemble...

 and Trygve Seim
Trygve Seim
Trygve Seim is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist and composer. Born in Oslo, Norway, Seim started to play the saxophone in 1985 after hearing Jan Garbarek's CD eventyr...

.

He also performs in chamber music duos and trios with Roland Pöntinen
Roland Pöntinen
Roland Peter Pöntinen is a Swedish pianist and composer.He is the son of a Finnish-speaking father, a native of the Russian district of Ingria who emigrated from the Soviet Union to Sweden in 1945...

, Martin Fröst
Martin Fröst
Martin Fröst is a Swedish clarinetist, born in Sundsvall in the north of Sweden in 1970. He first started playing the violin at the age of six, but he found playing soccer and basketball were more interesting. When he was nine, he started playing the clarinet, and when he was 15, he moved to...

, Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengt Forsberg
Bengt Forsberg
Bengt Forsberg is a Swedish concert pianist most famous for his numerous collaborations with the mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter. He participated in her project to record songs written in the concentration camp of Terezín. Forsberg has a reputation as a champion of neglected music and composers...

 and Mikael Samuelson
Mikael Samuelson
Mikael Samuelson is a Swedish barytone opera singer, actor and composer.Samuelson is the son of the famous musician and music arranger Bror Samuelson...

.
Svante has been the Musical Director of Asian, American and European tours with Anne Sofie von Otter.

Svante Henryson currently lives in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

, and is married to Katarina Henryson, singer of The Real Group
The Real Group
The Real Group is a professional a cappella group from Sweden, consisting of five members: Emma Nilsdotter, Katarina Henryson, Anders Edenroth, Morten Vinther Sørensen, and Anders Jalkéus....

.

Orchestral

  • Legatissimo for cello and orchestra (1996)
  • Songs from the Milky Way concerto for cello and orchestra (1997)
  • Memento for cello and string orchestra (2003)
  • Electric Bass Concerto for electric bass and orchestra (2007)
  • Vinterfest concert overture for orchestra (2007)
  • Sinfonia Concertante for orchestra (2009)
  • Cello Concerto nr. 2 for cello and orchestra (2010)

Choral

  • Eyes of a Child for five voices (1999)
  • Himlar av Djupaste Glädje for soprano, mixed choir and piano (2007)
  • Enfaldiga Ren for soprano, mezzo, alto, mixed choir, string octet, guitar and six-handed piano (2009)
  • DoReMi for cello, men's choir and jazz trio (2009)

Chamber music

  • Vintermusik for soprano, tenor, narrator, clarinet, bassoon, violin, double bass and percussion (1980)
  • Slussen (the Sluice) for cello and city sounds (1994)
  • Off Pist for soprano saxophone and cello (1996)
  • π (pi) for violin, cello and drums (2006)
  • Sarabande Metamorphose for cello and piano (2007)
  • Allegro Moderato for clarinet, cello and piano (2007)
  • Quartet for Violin, Viola and Two Celli (2007)
  • Eckency for cello and piano (2008)
  • Suite for Solo Cello (2008)
  • Sonata for Solo Violin (2009)

As leader

  • Enkidu
    Enkidu
    Enkidu is a central figure in the Ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh. Enkidu was first created by Anu, the sky god, to rid Gilgamesh of his arrogance. In the story he is a wild-man raised by animals and ignorant of human society until he is bedded by Shamhat...

    (1997) composer, cello, celtar, double bass
  • 21st Century Swedish Composers - Concertos by Henryson, Nelson, Högberg (2001) composer, cello

Classical

  • Tjajkovskij - Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
    Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
    The Oslo-Filharmonien is a symphony orchestra based in Oslo, Norway. The orchestra was founded in 1919, and has since 1977 had its home in the Oslo Concert Hall. The orchestra consists of 69 musicians in the string section, 16 in the woodwinds, 15 in brass, 5 in percussionists, 1 harpist, and 1...

    /Mariss Jansons
    Mariss Jansons
    Mariss Ivars Georgs Jansons is a Latvian conductor, the son of conductor Arvīds Jansons. His mother, the singer Iraida Jansons, who was Jewish, gave birth to him in hiding in Riga, Latvia, after her father and brother were killed in the Riga Ghetto...

     (1984) double bass
  • Mozart - Norwegian Chamber Orchestra/Iona Brown
    Iona Brown
    Iona Brown, OBE was a British violinist and conductor.Elizabeth Iona Brown was born in Salisbury. Her parents Antony and Fiona were both musicians...

     (1988) double bass
  • Mozart/Britten/Tchaikovsky - Norwegian Chamber Orchestra/Iona Brown
    Iona Brown
    Iona Brown, OBE was a British violinist and conductor.Elizabeth Iona Brown was born in Salisbury. Her parents Antony and Fiona were both musicians...

     (1988) double bass
  • Britten - Norwegian Chamber Orchestra/Iona Brown
    Iona Brown
    Iona Brown, OBE was a British violinist and conductor.Elizabeth Iona Brown was born in Salisbury. Her parents Antony and Fiona were both musicians...

     (1991) double bass, cello
  • Midvinter - Mikael Samuelson
    Mikael Samuelson
    Mikael Samuelson is a Swedish barytone opera singer, actor and composer.Samuelson is the son of the famous musician and music arranger Bror Samuelson...

     (1996) composer, cello, celtar
  • Home for Christmas - Anne Sofie von Otter (1999) arranger, cello, double bass, celtar
  • Hymn For Life - Anders Paulsson
    Anders Paulsson
    Anders Paulsson, born October 14, 1961, is a Swedish soprano saxophonist.After studies at Adolf Fredrik's Music Classes in Stockholm, the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and the Conservatoire de Bordeaux in France,...

     (2004) double bass

Hard Rock

  • Eclipse - Yngwie Malmsteen (1990) electric bass, double bass
  • Fire & Ice - Yngwie Malmsteen (1991) electric bass, cello, double bass
  • Guitars that rule the world (1991) electric bass
  • Crisis vs crisis - Glory (1994) electric bass, double bass, cello
  • Pounds - Mental Hippie Blood (1994) cello
  • Live and learn - Brazen Abbot
    Brazen Abbot
    Brazen Abbot is a Finnish rock band. Originally a studio project of Bulgarian guitarist, producer and song writer Nikolo Kotzev, who is a Finnish resident, the band has since made several live performances....

     (1995) electric bass
  • Lint - House of Shakira (1997) cello
  • Fall From Grace - Lion's Share (1999) cello

Jazz

  • Sol Niger Within
    Sol Niger Within
    -Credits:*Mats Öberg - church organ, synthesizer *Jonas Knutsson - saxophone *Jerry Ericsson - bass guitar *Kantor Magnus Larsson - church organ *Victor Alneng - yidaki *Morgan Ågren - drums...

    - Fredrik Thordendal
    Fredrik Thordendal
    Fredrik Thordendal is the lead guitarist and a founding member of the Swedish experimental metal band Meshuggah.He, along with Meshuggah's rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström were rated #35 by Guitar World in the top 100 greatest heavy metal guitarists of all-time.-Musical career:Under the name...

     (1993) electric bass
  • Amazing Orchestra - Thomas Jäderlund (1994) cello, composer
  • Stoneheater - Erik Weissglas (1994) composer, electric bass, double bass, cello
  • With a little help from my friends - Mats Bergström (1994) electric bass
  • On a Friday - Putte Wickman
    Putte Wickman
    Putte Wickman was one of the world's leading jazz clarinetists.He was born Hans Olof Wickman in Falun, and grew up in Borlänge, Sweden, where his parents hoped he would become a lawyer. He nagged them to allow him to go to high school in Stockholm...

     (1995) double bass
  • The spirit of milvus milvus - Christer Bothén (1996) double bass
  • Kyanos - Jon Balke
    Jon Balke
    Jon Balke is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer currently known for his Magnetic North Orchestra.He began with classical piano, but switched to blues at 12, though today he performs within several genres. At the age of 18 he joined Arild Andersen's quartet. By the mid-1980s he worked on his own...

    's Magnetic North Orchestra (2000) cello, composer
  • Seafarer's Song - Ketil Bjørnstad
    Ketil Bjørnstad
    Ketil Bjørnstad is a Norwegian pianist and composer. Initially trained as a classical pianist, Bjørnstad discovered jazz at an early age and has embraced the emergence of "European jazz"....

     (2003) cello
  • Ten Easy Pieces - Morten Halle Trio (2004) cello
  • Waiting For Atonesjka - Krister Jonsson Trio + Svante Henryson (2004) composer, cello
  • Factotum - Kristin Asbjørnsen (2004) cello
  • Attitude & Orbit Control - Jeanette Lindström (2009) cello
  • Night Song - Svante Henryson & Ketil Bjørnstad (2011) cello

Pop

  • Äntligen på väg
    Äntligen på väg (Ted Gärdestad album)
    -Personnel:* Ted Gärdestad - lead vocals, piano* Janne Schaffer - guitars, electric sitar* Staffan Astner - guitars* Lasse Englund - guitars* Leif Larsson - synthesizer, keyboards* Peter Ljung - synthesizer, organ, piano* Backa Hans Ericsson - bass guitar...

    - Ted Gärdestad
    Ted Gärdestad
    Ted Gärdestad , internationally known as Ted Gardestad, Ted Gaerdestad or just Ted was a Swedish singer, songwriter and musician.-Early career:...

     (1994) electric bass
  • Uno - Uno Svenningsson
    Uno Svenningsson
    Uno Svenningsson, born 1 July 1959 in Hagelstorp, Sweden is a Swedish pop singer and guitarist, who has been active in music since the late 1970s....

     (1994) cello
  • Andas fritt - Irma Schultz (1995) electric bass
  • Möss & människor - Uno Svenningsson
    Uno Svenningsson
    Uno Svenningsson, born 1 July 1959 in Hagelstorp, Sweden is a Swedish pop singer and guitarist, who has been active in music since the late 1970s....

     (1998) cello
  • For the Stars
    For the Stars
    -Track listing:...

    - Anne Sofie von Otter/Elvis Costello
    Elvis Costello
    Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...

     (2000) composer, cello, double bass, electric bass
  • Commonly Unique - The Real Group
    The Real Group
    The Real Group is a professional a cappella group from Sweden, consisting of five members: Emma Nilsdotter, Katarina Henryson, Anders Edenroth, Morten Vinther Sørensen, and Anders Jalkéus....

     (2000) composer
  • Janina - Janina (2005) cello
  • I Let The Music Speak - Anne Sofie von Otter (2005) arranger, double bass
  • Sleepwalkers Lament - Lesli (2008) cello
  • The Night Shines Like the Day - Kristin Asbjørnsen (2008) cello, electric bass
  • Red - Randi Tytingvåg (2009) cello

Rock

  • Mellan sol och måne - Janne Schaffer
    Janne Schaffer
    Jan Erik Tage Janne Schaffer is a Swedish songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for his work as a session guitarist for ABBA but he has also recorded with artists such as Bob Marley, Johnny Nash, Art Farmer and Tony Williams...

     (1993) electric bass
  • Av ren lust - Janne Schaffer
    Janne Schaffer
    Jan Erik Tage Janne Schaffer is a Swedish songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for his work as a session guitarist for ABBA but he has also recorded with artists such as Bob Marley, Johnny Nash, Art Farmer and Tony Williams...

     (1993) electric bass
  • Shine on
    Shine On (Kee Marcello album)
    Shine On is the first solo album by Kee Marcello, the former guitarist in the Swedish hard rock band Europe.-Track listing:All songs written by Kee Marcello, except where noted.# "When the Rain Comes Falling" – 4:01# "Shine On" – 4:00...

    - Kee Marcello
    Kee Marcello
    Kee Marcello is a Swedish musician, best known as the former guitarist in the rock band Europe. He is currently pursuing his solo career.-Career:...

     (1995) electric bass, double bass
  • A place to call home
    A Place to Call Home (album)
    A Place to Call Home is the first solo album by Joey Tempest, the vocalist in the Swedish hard rock band Europe. It was released on 20 April 1995 and presented a different sound compared to Europe....

    - Joey Tempest
    Joey Tempest
    Joey Tempest is the vocalist and main songwriter in the Swedish heavy metal band Europe. He has written hits like "The Final Countdown", "Rock the Night" and "Superstitious".-Early life:...

     (1995) electric bass
  • Under my skin - Jack Mittleman (1995) cello
  • Closer - Blom & Petrén (1996) cello
  • Happymandontkill - Mikael Rickfors
    Mikael Rickfors
    Mikael Rickfors was born in Stockholm, Sweden, 4 December 1948. From 1968 he was the lead singer and bass guitarist in popular Swedish band Bamboo. The band released two singles before breaking up in 1970. Rickfors would later perform with the British rock group The Hollies for about two years....

     (1997) cello
  • Demolition
    Demolition (Ryan Adams album)
    -Album:-Singles:-Personnel:* Ryan Adams – Vocals, Guitar, Electric guitar, Harmonica, Bass, Piano, Synth, Drum Machine* Mikael Nord Andersson – Dobro* Bucky Baxter – Pedal Steel Guitar, Background vocals, Guitar...

     - Ryan Adams
    Ryan Adams
    David Ryan Adams is an American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter, from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Initially part of the group Whiskeytown, Adams left the band and released his first solo album Heartbreaker in 2000...

    (2002) cello

World

  • Por donde me lleva el ritmo - Erik Steen Flamenco Fusion (1991) composer, cello, electric bass
  • Ohcan - Giron (1993) electric bass
  • Ealát - Giron (1993) composer, electric bass
  • Entre atardecer y amanecer - Erik Steen Flamenco Fusion (1995) composer, cello
  • yellow - HaLo (2000) cello
  • Simon Issát Marainen (2007) electric bass, cello

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