Music was Andrée Theander’s constant companion
since the age of ten when he first picked up a guitar. Soon after he also
started writing music, took guitar lessons and joined the music program at the
high school in his hometown Härnösand in Sweden. Later his musical studies led
Andrée to the university in Piteå, Sweden, where he took classes to become a
professional studio musician.
To enhance his musical abilities he spent several
months in the USA where he attended various courses at the Musicians Institute
(GIT) in Los Angeles. During his stay in California Andrée met Fusion pioneer
Jeff Lorber who invited him to lay down some guitar tracks for his “Galaxy”
album (2012). Quite an honour for a young virtually unknown music student to be
included in the album c redits next to L.A. session cats like Michael Thompson,
Vinnie Colaiuta or Jimmy Haslip.
Back in Sweden Andrée felt he was
ready to make his dream come true and to start working on his own album. Andrée
recruted a great line-up of Rock musicians from Sweden, he either knew
personally or who had impressed him with their previous work. Over the course of
the months the recording debut of “THE
THEANDER EXPRESSION” began to take shape with Göran Edman (Street Talk, Glory, Y.
Malmsteen), and the very promising newcomer Christian Hedgren sharing the lead
vocals, Herman Furin (Work Of Art,
Fergie Frederiksen) on drums, Linus
Abrahamson on bass and Michael
Ottosson on keyboards.
The result of the recording sessions,
which were completed by the mix of Per
Ryberg (Street Talk, Sven Larsson, Bloodbound) and the mastering of Sören von Malmborg (Dan Reed, The
Rasmus) is nothing but spectacular, proving that Andrée Theander is a very talented
songwriter and a strikingly skilled guitar player, who knows how to leave a
lasting impression by combining his technical skills with a lot of feeling and
an unmistakable sense for catchy melodies. Together with his band he delivers a
pure AOR album, spiced up with energetic licks and furious solos and
occasionally leaning towards the more powerful side of 80s Westcoast, all in all
tailor-made for everyone who is into the high class AOR sounds of bands like
Street Talk, Toto, Work Of Art, Mecca and Lionville.
THE THEANDER EXPRESSION :
Andrée Theander
– Guitars
and backing vocals
Christian Hedgren
– Lead
vocals on tracks 1-3 and 7-9
Göran Edman
– Lead
and backing vocals on tracks 4-6 and 10, backing vocals on tracks 3, 7 and
9
Michael Ottosson
–
Keyboards
Linus Abrahamson
–
Bass
Herman Furin
– Drums
and percussion
Peter Gardemar
– Violin
and viola on track 9
Ylva Nilsson
– Cello
on track 9
Philip Magnusson
– Backing
vocals on tracks 1, 2, 4, and 7
Elin Åkesson
– Backing
vocals on tracks 6 and 10
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