Peder Af Ugglas – Autumn Shuffle / Opus 3 Records

Peder Af Ugglas is a guitar wizard who can hold his own on the international stage: equally at home on electric and acoustic guitar and with blues as his foundation, he offers a highly interesting mix, sensitive and soulful, of rock, jazz, fusion, world music,

and classical influences. His range is sometimes reminiscent of David Lindley, sometimes of Ry Cooder, and sometimes of Peter Green—but he always sounds unmistakably like Af Ugglas! On “Autumn Shuffle,” his debut album, all the tracks are his own

compositions. In addition to guitar, he also plays piano, keyboards, and occasionally electric bass. The last track on the album is particularly impressive: “A Hymn.” Recorded in Stockholm's largest church, Af Ugglas celebrates a very special kind of slide guitar

hymn in a duo with Mattias Wager on the organ! In addition to his work as a musician, Af Ugglas has also made a name for himself as a producer and studio musician over the past ten years, working with the cream of Swedish musicians, including Louise Hoffsten.

“The sound quality is simply phenomenal. Recommended track: A Hymn.” (Robert Schmitz-Niehaus, Hörerlebnis 63)

"Wow: The instrumental album Autumn Shuffle by slide guitar virtuoso Peder Af Ugglas has turned out to be a real bestseller in the Opus 3 program. No wonder, if you ask me, given the truly tasteful, pleasant in the very best sense, mature compositions and an extremely

rich sound that enchants with its great colorfulness, credible spatial impression, and almost live-like tangibility." (Cai Brockmann, image hifi 1/2008)

The LP (180-gram vinyl, 33 RPM), which boasts outstanding sound quality, was pressed by Optimal Media. Andreas “Lupo” Lubich (Calyx Mastering, Berlin) is responsible for the lacquer disc cutting.

MUSICIANS

Peder Af Ugglas: guitars, mandolin, electric bass, keyboards, percussion, piano
Malte Sjöstrand: Hammond B-3, Fender Rhodes
Henrik Wartel: drums, percussion
Bo Nordenfeldt: upright bass
Patrik Silvereke: accordion
Dave Wilczewski: tenor sax
Lars Höbinger: trombone
Björn Hamrin: harmonica
Mattias Wager: organ (Hedvig Eleonoras Church in Stockholm) 

Opus 3 is an independent Swedish music label dedicated to recording timeless acoustic music such as jazz, blues, folk and classical. Founded in late 1976 by sound engineer Jan-Eric Persson, the label has made it its mission to reproduce voices and instruments as

naturally as possible. To achieve this, Opus 3 selects recording environments with good natural. The label's recording techniques were developed specifically for acoustic music and were originally based on the use of tube gear and “Blumlein” miking. In 2001, Opus 3

switched to digital eight-track technology and later to 16 channels – in the brand-new mixing and mastering studio designed and set up by Sweden's leading acoustic engineer Lennart Nilsson to mark the label's 30th anniversary. Apart from a few digital intermediate

steps all processing is still done exclusively analog.

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Title

Side A
1. Harvest Song
2. Wino's Dance
3. Autumn Shuffle
4. Central South
5. Passion

Side B
1. Last Call
2. Dawn
3. I Sold My Boat
4. Stockholm
5. Passing By
6. Strife Within
7. A Hymn