Hållbus Totte Mattson (usually known simply as Totte Mattson) is a multi-instrumentalist

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musician from

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, Sweden. Mattson's instruments include the

lute A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lute" can ref ...

, baroque lute,

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, bass mandora, hummel, classical guitar,

baroque guitar The Baroque guitar (c. 1600–1750) is a string instrument with five courses of gut strings and moveable gut frets. The first (highest pitched) course sometimes used only a single string. History The Baroque guitar replaced the Renaissance lut ...

Mora-oud,

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

, Swedish dulcimer,

hurdy-gurdy The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to those of a vio ...

and vocals. Mattson was a founding member in 1980 of the seminal Swedish folk ensemble Groupa along with Mats Edén. In 1987, Mattson, Anders Stake (now

Anders Norudde Anders Norudde (born Anders Stake, 1960) is a Swedish folk musician, multi-instrumentalist, and luthier. After finishing school, Anders took a job at the ironworks in Degerfors, where, in his spare time, he practiced orienteering and played rock ...

) and percussionist Björn Tollin formed the band

Hedningarna Hedningarna (''The Heathens'') is a Swedish, and for some years partly Finnish, folk music band that mixes electronics and rock with elements from old Scandinavian folk music. Their music features yoik or juoiggus, a traditional Sami form of so ...

in order to explore the possibilities of developing a new musical style based on elements of traditional music. The group wrote and played a major part of the music to theatre project ''Den stora vreden'' (rough translation: ''The Great Wrath'') at Gävleborgs folkteater (the county theatre of Gävleborg), first time performed in 1988, that attracted much attention. A fairly large portion of the music on their first record was originally performed in that play. Mattson has also participated in the Swedish musical and dance ensemble ''Boot'' with Ola Bäckström (

viola d'amore The viola d'amore (; Italian for "viol of love") is a 7- or 6- stringed musical instrument with sympathetic strings used chiefly in the baroque period. It is played under the chin in the same manner as the violin. Structure and sound The viol ...

bouzouki The bouzouki (, also ; el, μπουζούκι ; alt. pl. ''bouzoukia'', from Greek ), also spelled buzuki or buzuci, is a musical instrument popular in Greece. It is a member of the long-necked lute family, with a round body with a flat top and ...

) and Björn Tollin (percussion). In 1999, Mattson and Stefan Brisland-Ferner of

Garmarna Garmarna is a Sweden, Swedish folk rock band. Their songs are mainly old Scandinavian ballads. Biography Garmarna was founded in 1990. Stefan Brisland-Ferner, Gotte Ringqvist and Rickard Westman were inspired by old Swedish music, which they h ...

began collaborating on a musical project that would involve a novel use of hurdy-gurdies, which would expand on the idea that the hurdy-gurdy was the medieval equivalent of a synthesizer. In 2005, they released their first album under the name Hurdy-Gurdy, titled ''Prototyp.'' The album consists of twelve traditional and original songs, played entirely on two Swedish hurdy-gurdies by Brisland-Ferner and Mattson. Specialized recording and computer editing techniques were used to produce a number of unique musical effects.

Groups

* Groupa *

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Discography

*''Av Bara Farten'' (with Groupa), 1982 *''Vildhonung'' (with Groupa), 1985 *''Utan Sans'' (with Groupa), 1989 *''Hedningarna'' (with Hedningarna), 1989 *''Månskratt'' (with Groupa and Lena Willemark), 1990 *''Kaksi'' (with Hedningarna), 1991 *''Trä'' (with Hedningarna), 1994 *''Kruspolska: SASHA mixes'', 1994 *''Hippjokk'' (with Hedningarna), 1997 *''Karelia Visa'' (with Hedningarna), 1999 *''Virvla'' (with Boot), 1999 *''1989-2003'' (with Hedningarna), 2003 *''Prototyp'' (Hurdy-Gurdy, with Stefan Brisland-Ferner), 2005 *''Soot'' (with Boot), 2010

References

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