After a track-by-track of Freak Kitchen’s latest album, Cooking With Pagans, concocted by Mattias “IA” Eklundh himself, here’s our full interview with the band’s leader, singer, and guitarist. This time we take a more general look at the album (five years in the making), but also at the band itself, and at their promising collaboration with cartoonist Juanjo Guarnido, a Freak Kitchen fan who has worked for Disney and is most famous for his Black Sad comic books.
If you don’t know the man yet (and even if you do), this interview will paint a rather comprehensive picture, and allow you to discover an atypical, quick-witted musician. With humor and intelligence to spare, the man talked about pretty much everything: Freak Kitchen and Art Metal (with bassist Jonas Hellborg), his crazy soli as Freak Guitar, his love of India, his highly unusual use of guitars, his contempt for effect pedals, his musical tastes, his philosophy, his humility (he considers himself neither a singer nor a guitar player), cows, and Gustave Flaubert.

































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