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Jonas Hellborg Born June 7 1958 Is A Swedish Bass Guitarist. He Has Collaborated With John McLaughlin Ustad Sultan Khan Fazal Qureshi Bill Laswell Shawn Lane Jens Johansson Michael Shrieve V. Selvaganesh Mattias IA Eklundh And Buckethead. Hellborg Began His Music Career In 1976 In Sweden Touring With Local Rock Acts. He Was Spotted By Percussionist Reebop Kwaku Baah In A Small Club In Stockholm 1979 And He Moved To London For A Year To Work With Reebop On Different Projects. He Played The Montreux Jazz Festival In Switzerland In 1981 And Met Michael Brecker Who Introduced Him To John McLaughlin Billy Cobham And Other Fusion Stars. He Was Asked To Join John McLaughlin’s Reformed Mahavishnu Orchestra In 1983 And He Stayed With McLaughlin Until 1988 Touring And Recording With Mahavishnu Orchestra And Also Doing Several Duet Tours With McLaughlin During This Time.
In 1986 And 1987 He Toured With A Project Featuring Ginger Baker On Drums And Bernie Worrell On Keyboards. In 1988 Hellborg Moved To New York And Started His Own Band Which First Included Keyboardist Aydin Esen And Drummer Kenwood Dennard Later The Johansson Brothers Jens On Keyboards And Anders On Drums. At The Same Time He Started A Recording Studio Together With Producer/bassist Bill Laswell Called Greenpoint Studios. They Recorded A Multitude Of Records There Until Early 1993 Including The Word Together With Tony Williams Octave Of The Holy Innocents With Mike Shrieve And Buckethead Materials Hallucination Engine E With The Johansson Brothers.
In 1993 He Sold His Part In The Studio To Laswell And Resettled In Paris France. The Following Year He Teamed Up With Guitarist Shawn Lane A Cooperation That Would Last 9 Years. The First Record Was Abstract Logic With Ginger Baker's Son Kofi On Drums This Was Followed By Michael Shrieve’s “Two Doors”. By The Third Record They Were Joined By Drummer Jeff Sipe And Embarked On Long Stretch That Produced 4 Records And A Lot Of Touring Between 1995 And 1997. In 1998 Hellborg Met Percussionist V. Selvaganesh At A Zakir Hussain Concert In Paris. The Two Formed Another Long Lasting Musical Partnership That Has Been Ongoing Since Then. To Start With Selvaganesh Joined Hellborg In Duets And In Different “classical” Settings Hellborg Was Working On At The Time. Later A Group Was Formed First In Trio With Lane Then Grew Into A Quintet Including Selvaganesh’s 2 Brothers V. Umashankar And V. Umamahesh. 2 CD’s And A DVD Were Produced With This Group. After Shawn Lane's Death In 2003 Hellborg Has Continued To Explore Amalgamations Of Indian And Western Music Working With Indian Masters As Debashish Bhattacharya Niladri Kumar Vikku Vinayakram Tanmoy Bose And U. Shrinivas. He Has Also Started A New Metal-Fusion Project With Guitarist Mattias IA Eklundh Called Art Metal. Hellborg Founded His Own Record Label Day Eight Music In 1979 Releasing His First Solo Bass Record The Bassic Thing – An Early Showcase Of His Pioneering Chordal And For The Time Very Advanced Slapping Approaches. It Is Also Noteworthy That It Was The First LP Ever To Feature Solely Bass Guitar. With The Move To The US A New Entity Was Formed Called Bardo Music That Took Over The Responsibilities Of Hellborgs Output Now Counting Around 40 Odd Releases. Musical Equipment Hellborg Has Been Involved In Instrument Design From Early On In His Career. His Work Includes A Signature Model For Aria The First Ever Biamped Bass Amplifier In Cooperation With Italian Company FBT A Double Neck Bass Fretted And Fretless For British Company Wal In 1983 And In 1984 An Acoustic Bass In Collaboration With Master Luthier Abraham Wechter. After Working With A Further Half Dozen Of Other Companies With Signature Models And Inventions He Now Together With Warwick Created A New Bass And A High End Line Of Bass Amplification. Hellborg Has Published 2 Books In The Early 80’s With Music Sales Of London One On Slap Bass Called Thumb Bassics And A Chord Book Called Chord Bassics. Discography As Band Leader The Bassic Thing Solo Bass 1979 Day Eight Music
Elegant Punk Solo Bass 1984 Day Eight Music
Axis 1988 Day Eight Music
Adfa 1989 Day Eight Music
Bass Day Eight Music
The Silent Life Acoustic Solo Bass 1991 Day Eight Music
Jonas Hellborg Group 1990 Day Eight Music
Jonas Hellborg Group E 1991 Day Eight Music
The Word 1991 Axiom
Abstract Logic Bardo
Octave Of The Holy Innocents 1993 Day Eight Music Re-Released 2003 Bardo Temporal Analogues Of Paradise Bardo
Time Is The Enemy Bardo
Aram Of The 2 Rivers 1999 Bardo
Zenhouse 1999 Bardo
Good People In Times Of Evil Bardo
Personae Bardo
Icon A Transcontinental Gathering Bardo
Paris DVD Bardo
Kali's Son 2006 Bardo
Art Metal 2007 Bardo With The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Mahavishnu 1984 Warner Bros.
Adventures In Radioland 1986 Relativity With Deadline
Dissident 1991 Day Eight Music
Down By Law Cell With Michael Joseph Smith
Faces Day Eight Music
All Our Steps Day Eight Music With Michael Shrieve
Two Doors CMP
THE LEAVING TIME NOVUS/BMG With Public Image Ltd
Album Virgin With Trilok Gurtu
Usfret CMP With Sultan Khan And Fazal Qureshi
Friends Across Boundaries Ninaad Music With Ginger Baker
Unseen Rain Day Eight Music
Middle Passage Axiom With Kollektiv
feat. Jonas Hellborg ITM With Jens Johansson
Fjäderlösa Tvåfotingar Day Eight Music With Anders Johansson
Shutka Day Eight Music
Red Shift Heptagon With RAF Feat. Peter Brötzmann Bill Laswell Jamal Evans Ode To A Tractor 1992 Day Eight Music With Reebop
Melodies In A Jungle Man's Head Day Eight Music With Shining Path
No Other World 1992 read less