BJÖRN MEYER
Genres: Jazz Related Improv, Composition • Sweden

He grew up next to a piano outside Stockholm, spent a few years playing trumpet in the Swedish youth music program – much to the horror of the family wiener dog – and sang in a boys choir before joining his first garage-rock band as a guitarist. Just before his eighteenth birthday, a jam session put him in direct contact with the electric bass. Those first notes, played on a left-behind instrument, opened up a universe of sounds that still resonates as a major source of inspiration. After finishing a masters degree in Computer Science and Engineering he decided to “take a year off” to pursue his passion for the bass. A year that has lasted since 1989. Already as a child Björn had a great interest in how and why things work and what could be done to modify their normal function. A quest that led to alternative usability and the read more...