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ON CURRENT PRODUCTIONS:

     

PETER LINDAHL

In the labyrinth is a project based around Peter Lindahl  and his ambitions as a multi instrumentalist and in various parts also as a  singer.

His contribution to ITL spans playing on instruments such as mellotron, flutes, guitars, bass, mandolin, zither, samplers, viola da gamba, various oriental woodwinds, percussion and strings. He has also thrown in vocals from time to time and taken care of production, arranged most of the music and carried out his obligation as a recording engineer. Peter has no particular musical training other than the experience he has gathered from working in the studio and from numerous gigs and rehearsals in bands and with various musicians. Most of the material on the records has been penned down by Peter, sometimes cowritten together with other participants of the project.

In 2001 he was granted a scholarship by the Swedish Performing Rights Society, STIM.



HÅKAN ALMKVIST is a multi instrumentalist though he mainly utilizes in bass, electric guitar, sitar, Indian tabla and samplers. He got parts of his musical schooling in Benares and in Calcutta of India where he studied local instruments, traditional, classical scales and tonal expressions for a couple of years. He also manages his own record company TAP, as well as graphically designes the releases of his catalogue (including Walking On Clouds and Dryad). Other projects and bands where he is or has been active are Orient Squeezers, Ensemble Nimbus, Flying food circus and Tweendeck 2.

Helena Selander
HELENA SELANDER is a singer and guitarist who also writes her own songs. Her voice is present on all ITL albums performing both background harmonies and improvisations.

Marcos ChagalloMARCOS CHAGALLO is a classicaly trained violinist who has added his instrument to a large number of ITL songs. He was born in Argentina but has lived in Sweden for most of his life.




Styrbjörn Bergelt
STYRBJÖRN BERGELT (1939-2006) played  ancient nordic and East European instruments which  he constructed himself. This photo was  taken  during the recordings of his last album "Hör du harpan?" which was recorded by Styrbjörn and Peter and released in 2006.   


MICKE LÖVROTH is a Swedish violinist. He has contributed to several of the ITL songs, but mainly to those on Walking on clouds.
Stefan 1
STEFAN OTTMAN has 
lent his voice to narration
on three ITL tracks.


Robert Eklund
ROBERT EKLUND plays the arch lute, celtic harp and ukelele on a couple of In the labyrinth recordings. He is the latest newcomer to the band/project but as such a very important one. He also helped build up this web site at its early stages.   


Fereidoun and PeterFEREIDOUN NADIMI (to the left) once left Iran for Sweden but has now returned to his old country. Before doing so he took part in several ITL sessions playing darbouka, Moroccan and Persian daf. In 1994 he released his own album called "In memory of Hafez" on which he shared most of the instruments with Peter while also delivering vocals in Persian.                  
                                    
     

ONLY ON WALKING ON CLOUDS (1999), DRYAD (2002)
AND ON VARIOUS CD COMPILATIONS:

NATALIE KNUTSSEN did some session work,  adding her vocals to a number of ITL songs in 2004.    

ISMET DEMIRHAN is an Assyrian woodwind player,  doing some zurna and mai improvisations on Walking on clouds. He has performed in many cultural events around Sweden and on numerous gigs all over Europe.

KIRK CHILTON was like Håkan Almkvist once a member of Ensemble Nimbus.  He did some violin parts on Walking On Clouds.

                           Sven Lindahl playing cornett   
Kitty FuentesKRISTINA FUENTES put in background vocals in two songs on the ITL album Dryad. Together with her parents, younger sister and brother she emigrated from Chile in the turbulent early seventies.





SVEN LINDAHL (Peter´s father) plays the cornett – an alternately straight or bent, wooden trumpet much used around the sixteenth century. Once he was a renowned constructor of renaissance instruments but has now retired. He once built arch lutes, renaissance woodwinds, viols  and various types of strings.



MIRIAM OLDENBURG is a piano accordeon player, usually engaged in Klezmer.

   

ONLY ON THE GARDEN OF MYSTERIES (1996):
ULF HANSSON used to play on Turkish darbouka and Egyptian tabla in the early days.

MIKAEL GEJEL took part in the project between 1992 and 1995. He played,  among other  instru- ments, acoustic guitar and flute.
HELENA JACOBSSEN delivered  harmonies on
two occasions on The garden of mysteries.

KARIN LANGHARD handled flute (on one track), background harmonies and knitting.                          
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