English A&K Biography

Andersson & Kruse are the songwriter team who travelled in Europe for five years ago and start working as street-musicians. During this period they found the music and songs of Cornelis Vreeswijk, and established themselves as skilful interpreters of his music. Back in Sweden A & K performed in the national radio, and declared how hard it is to established as a troubadour in Sweden depending on the difficulty to find new and exciting Swedish poems or lyrics. The painter Gunilla Bruzewits-Nüth heard the program, and contacted the guys regarding poems and lyrics her deceased husband Leif Nüth had been written during his lifetime. The result of the co-operation between Andersson & Kruse and Leif Nüth is recorded on the CD "Läs mig..."

Joel Andersson, born 1965, grew up in Västra Frölunda. Started his musical career as a member of the boys' choir of Gothenburg's cathedral 1972. He got drunk for the first time on Southern Comfort for almost twenty years ago. Joel has never really played in a band he has more fiddled around on his own. He built a tiny studio in his parent's "gardenhouse", and together with a friend he recorded a symphony-rock album which was presented to the a & r on Polar records in the middle of the eighties -the rumour tells that the cassette became ejected out after 20 seconds according with the words: " This is the worst shit I've ever heard.". Joel earned his living as a street-musician in Stockholm for a couple of years, until he met Patrik.

Patrik Kruse, born 1967, grew up in Västra Frölunda. Started his musical career as a guitarist in several garage bands through the eighties. Later he played with a couple of coverbands and a few theatrical performance.In 1985 he started the band Blond Bomb, an attempt to make a popcareer. He got drunk for the first time at the age of 13 on two bottles of home-brewed wine. After that, he didn't touch alcohol for 7 years. Beside the Corneli's and Nüth's material, he writes songs of his own, which he hopes to present on a CD in the future.

Martin Fürst, drums, drum-wizard, has played with well known artists as Py Bäckman, Kee Marcello, Siw Malmqvist etc. He is a tutor and has made a couple of drum clinics at the conservatory of Gothenburg. He is often wanted as studio-musician.

Ove Andersson,bass, studio-musician and a member of Thomas Ledin's group. He take part at two songs on the cd.

Photo by Göran Björklund

Stefan Sandberg, Peter Johansson och Gino de Vaughn, sums up the brass band section "Kent Bejsy's"
and they've played with Chicagoexpressen, Nightcats, ORO, Stonefunkers, Umberto Marcato, Svenne & Lotta etc .

Kristian Kullberg, basses, has played on records with Goldmine(HipHop) and ex-Mazola Party. He is a steady member in New Tango Orchestra, and plays in a few coverbands. He is known as a crazy collector of musical instruments and cosmic junk.