Morgan plays an assault of technically proficient and tasteful percussion.
Mats фberg blind.
Mats was two years old when he began listening to music.
He is also a member of mats morgan band a band with fellow zappa s universe drummer morgan ågren mats öberg is blind since birth.
Mats blind since birth is a keyboard player vocalist who invokes zappa esque writing with a sound not completely unlike stevie wonder.
They organically combine humor and imagination.
Morgan ågren has been a drummer since age four.
Finally got this digitalized from the original vhs.
He was born blind and music and sound was everything for him.
Mats öberg born february 25 1971 is a swedish pianist perhaps best known for having played with the musician frank zappa as a guest in 1988 and for his part in the zappa s universe tribute concert series.
The band is a showcase for their virtuosic skills on their respective instruments as well as their compositional skills.
Together with the longtime meshuggah bassist gustaf hielm and stefan jernståhl on guitar and synthesizer the blind keyboard wizard mats öberg and morgan ågren voted the number 1 fusion drummer in modern drummer magazine s 2010 reader s poll create a highly adventurous experience.
Born in umeå sweden ågren was spotted as an outstanding talent at a young age as he began performing publicly at age seven and eventually joined forces with blind keyboardist mats öberg in 1981.
Swedish born mats öberg and morgan agren have been playing together since childhood.
This is me and mats first tv gig recorded in umeå 1981.
This footage is from the work on elliot elliot s third album yeah low.
But also with frank zappa as you can see raving over mats qualities in an interview from 1988 youtube.
Mats morgan band formerly hot rats and zappsteetoot is a band that features morgan ågren and mats öberg morgan is a drummer and composer and mats is a keyboard player and composer.
We moved to stockholm in the late 80s and began composing separately then meeting and recording.
We still compose separately.
Mats morgan began in 1981 just piano and drums and we composed everything together.
1 han spelar bland annat i mats morgan band tillsammans med morgan ågren bandet ursprungligen kallat zappstetoot bildades redan 1981 när mats var 10 år och morgan 14 inför en spelning på ett musikkafé i yttertavle utanför umeå där de helt utan gemensamma.