”Stackenäs has made one of the most brilliant albums I’ve heard in a long time, so personal that it’s hard to describe. It would really have been enough by writing: listen!” – Orkesterjournalen on Bricks
David Stackenäs was born in 1974 in Stockholm, Sweden. After finishing his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm he has grown to become one of the mainstays of contemporary jazz and improvised and creative music in Sweden.
Stackenäs works in the field of contemporary jazz and free improvised music. Over the years he has developed a unique way of playing guitar – both prepared with different materials as well as conventional technique and a growing armada of pedals. With a wide range of sounds and techniques he creates music with great imagination and poetry. As a soloist he mainly focuses on acoustic guitars, using a lot of the organic sound-possibilities and timbres the instrument has to offer.
Has toured as soloist and with many different groups in Europe, the US, Japan and the Middle East. In 2000 David released critics´ acclaimed cd The Guitar on swedish label Häpna and has since then released BOW on Kning-Disk (2006), Separator on Found You Recordings (2009) and Bricks on Clean Feed 2017. Also plays with LabField (w/ Ingar Zach), Kim Myhr You|Me, Ballrogg, Sol Sol, Mattias Risbergs Mining, Elin Forkelid plays for Trane, Elin Forkelid ”Songs…” and has participated as musician and made music for many different theatre- and dance-pieces. Since 2000 he has participated on over 80 albums.
Through the years he has played with, among many others:
Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Lina Nyberg, Sofia Jernberg, Rhodri Davies, Fredrik Ljungkvist, Paul Lovens, Axel Dörner, Sten Sandell, Thurston Moore, Mazen Kerbaj, Christine Abdelnour, Ken Vandermark, Paal Nilssen-Love, Jim O’Rourke, Tatsuya Nakatani.
PRESS
“Creating something different — not to mention memorable — with the world’s most popular instrument, the guitar, often seems as unlikely as winning the national lottery. Yet young Swedish guitarist David Stackenäs has done so on this short, cunningly enigmatic disc.” – Ken Waxman, Jazz Weekly on the solo-album “the guitar”
”Controlled intensity, delivered by a master who deserves much more attention. But maybe he doesn’t want that. Outstanding!” – Salt Peanuts on Bricks
”Stackenäs has made one of the most brilliant albums I’ve heard in a long time, so personal that it’s hard to describe. It would really have been enough by writing: listen!” – Orkesterjournalen on Bricks
”Like many of the best improvisers, Stackenäs embraces the idiomatic properties of his instrument in order to figure out how best not to be shackled by them.” -Dusted Reviews on Bricks