4/27/2012
- Lund, Sweden - Much to the anticipation of guitar aficionados around
the world, on May 4, 2012, one
of Sweden's youngest and most talented guitarists, Johan Randén,
releases his third solo-album 'Summary' on Reingold Records, home to
prog superstars the Flower Kings. 'Summary' is a musical journey that
takes us through guitar picking à la
Steve Morse in the country influenced track "Country
Maniac",
to beautiful bluesy and tasty woodwork à la Jeff Beck in "Floating
Around".
On this record Johan proves that he´s not only a guitarist but also
a great songwriter and producer, with the guitar always in focus. Bengan
Andersson,
Sven Lindvall, Staffan Astner form the backbone of ”Summary”.
Johan
Randén
was born to play the guitar. At
the age of 12, he played with Freak Kitchen at Sweden Rock Festival
and
today at 24, Johan Randén already works as a freelance guitar
player, composer,
producer and musical director.
He has also worked and played with bands and people like
Bronk (Staffan Astner, Per Lindvall, Sven Lindvall), Janne Schaffer,
Simon Andersson (Pain Of Salvation), Andreas Brobjer (Lady Gaga), Jonas
Reingold (Flower Kings, Karmakanic) and many more…
His
first solo album 'Lead Guitar',
released in 2002 when Johan was only 14 years old, was written and
produced by Mattias IA Eklundh from Freak Kitchen. It soon led
to Johan's second release 'Version
2.0' in 2005, this time with Johan as co-writer together with producer
Christian Alsing. 'Lead
guitar' was
a succes in Asia and Japan and with his second album, he toured in
Japan together with Freak Kitchen were he also recorded a guitar DVD
for 'Young Guitar', the biggest guitar magazine in Japan. Johan
has been endorsed by both Yamaha and Elexir Strings and currently he
is endorsed by Fender Guitars.
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