MATS / MORGAN - MAKE MATS / MORGAN GREAT AGAIN

• Mats / Morgan: Make Mats/Morgan Great Again
      (2026, cd, Sweden, m.rec 009)

Last year, Mats and Morgan surprised us by doing a live stream concert entitled "Make Mats/Morgan Great Again".
An incredibly intense and beautiful concert with lots of familiar tunes.
The audio was made available on Bandcamp and the video is up on YouTube, but for the aficionados, the recording has now been made available on CD as well.

It looks great and it sounds even better.
The (cardboard fold-out packaged) CD is a limited edition, so don't hesitate.

UPDATES FROM MORGAN ÅGREN

Excellent news from Morgan Ågren:

"Make Mats/Morgan Great Again" has been made available on CD,
and the 2025 remastered version of "Batterie Deluxe" is also getting a CD release !!

Both are also available for digital download / streaming.

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THURSDAY 20/11 - - - MATS & MORGAN AT LE TRITON IN PARIS, FRANCE

Thursday, 20 November at 8:30 p.m.
MATS AND MORGAN
FEAT. HENRIK LINDER & MÉDÉRIC COLLIGNON

MATS AND MORGAN are back at Le Triton, much to our delight!

The Swedish duo was discovered in the early 1990s by the great Frank Zappa himself. We heard them in 1991 alongside Mike Keneally and Steve Vai in the Zappa's Universe project, supervised by the master himself. Since then, they have been flying solo in a stunningly virtuosic band that is restoring jazz-fusion to its former glory, thanks to compositions that are not mere pretexts for a display of technical prowess.
For their grand return to the Triton stage, they will be accompanied by Swedish virtuoso bassist Henrik Linder and the explosive troublemaker Médéric Collignon.

"MAKE MATS/MORGAN GREAT AGAIN"

"Make Mats/Morgan Great Again", the latest album (audio Bandcamp release) by Mats & Morgan got uploaded (as video !!) to YouTube a couple of days ago.

This is magic. Check it out.

MATS / MORGAN VIDEO STREAM

Mats & Morgan recently released "Make Mats/Morgan Great Again", an excellent live album.

The video recording will be streamed on February 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM GMT+1 :

https://morganagren.bandcamp.com/merch/make-mats-morgan-great-again

A NEW (LIVE) ALBUM BY MATS/MORGAN

• Mats & Morgan: Make Mats/Morgan Great Again
      (2025, download/streaming, --, bandcamp)

“Make Mats/Morgan Great Again” presents the recordings of the Mats Öberg and Morgan Ågren concert at Fasching, Stockholm on November 24, 2023. Next to Mats on keyboard, harmonica and vocals, and Morgan on drums, the band featured Dan Berglund on double bass.

The album title sets the tone. I need a red baseball cap that says MMMGA.

This is a joy to listen to. From the first seconds of 'Propellerhäst', you enter another universe.
The rhythm, the phrasing, the melodies,...
AMAZING !

For those of you who keep track of this:
The album included ‘Sylox’, a piece with a reference to an unreleased Frank Zappa riff that had previously been used by Steve Vai on his “Flex-Able” and his “Passion And Warfare” records.

But even more important, the show will be released on video as well !!
Can't wait to see it.

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MATS & MORGAN - LIVE 40! - THE VIDEO

What better way to come home from the Zappa festivities in London than to find a Mats & Morgen concert waiting on your hard disc. Especially since I had a nice chat with Hans Annéllsson about this Swedish dynamic duo.

Is this what they call decompressing? Or am I recompressing after the dull train ride?

The audio album was released earlier this month and the video streaming followed last week.
As I wasn't home to catch the stream, I was glad to learn that the video would be made available for download afterwards.
The link arrived in my mailbox on Friday.
Quite a surprise as it was a total of 9 Gigabyte (!!) as a zip file. Good of Morgan to mention it in the message as I needed twice the space as to unzip this monster. Had to move some stuff to an eternal hard drive but it was worth it.

Beautiful!  BEAUTIFUL!!

'Sylox' !!  'Akash' !!  Breathtaking.
I guess I'll be listening to 'Akash' first thing every morning the coming week. What an amazing piece of music.
And I haven't even mentioned the guest appearances by Kriter Jonsson (guitar!!), Tommy Tordsson and Henrik Linder (both on bass) during 'Palstug' and again during the 'Baaderpuf' encore. 

Recommended listening. (of viewing if you go for the video).

MATS & MORGAN - LIVE 40!

I received the following message from Morgan Ågren's Bandcamp page :

MORGAN ÅGREN just released Live 40! by Mats/Morgan, check it out.

“Dear all, here is the album download of Mats/Morgan "Live 40!" - The upcoming livestream of the same content will be aired MARCH 16 at: CET22:00 on bandcamp. Stream-link here:

morganagren.bandcamp.com/merch/mats-morgan-live-40?

And again; the livestream ticket will include the album download, and the album download will include the livestream video in case you miss the livestream date. You will receive a download link shortly after the livestream. ($9 in total) I forgot to mention that we had some cool guests that joined us at the end of this concert, our original magical bass player Tommy Tordsson, another great bassist: Henrik Linder and guitar hero Krister Jonsson. - D I G ! !

Peace please // Mats & Morgan”

MATS & MORGAN UPDATE

The Japanese edition of Mats & Morgan's "40th Anniversary Box Set" presents 7 CD's.
That's one more than the European version.
The Japanese box sets that can be ordered from Morgan Ågren's Bandcamp page, will also include the bonus disc that came with the Japanese edition of the "35th Anniversay Colletion" set. So that's 8 CD's in total...

The bonus discs:

MATS & MORGAN

Mats & Morgan's "40th Anniversary Box Set" came with a bonus disc in Japan.
Morgan has now made these recordings (demos from 1987-1989) available through Bandcamp.

MATS / MORGAN - PUT ANOTHER QUARTER IN!

October 2016, Mats & Morgan released their "35th Anniversary Collection", a 2 CD remastered compilation album.

The Japanese edition of "35th Anniversary Collection" was a 3 CD set. The bonus disc was entitled "Put Another Quarter In!" and presented 16 tracks.

Previously, the "Put Another Quarter In!" had been made available through Bandcamp as a 17 track compilation !!
For obvious reasons, the CD version did not include the 10-minute live version of 'Watch Me Pleasure'.

This CD is included in the 9 CD package that is being offered through Morgan's Bandcamp site.

https://morganagren.bandcamp.com/merch/hard-copy-bundle-9-discs

MATS AND MORGAN UPDATE

 Morgan Agren's bandcamp page is offering a "Hard Copy Bundle (9 discs)" of his previous albums.

In case you don't have these, or if you want to get someone a nice gift, here's the info:

https://morganagren.bandcamp.com/merch/hard-copy-bundle-9-discs

MATS / MORGAN - 40TH ANNIVERSARY BOX SET

• mats / morgan: 40th anniversary box set
      (2021, 6cd, sweden, private release)

There's not much that I can see about this beautiful box, except that it should be part of everybody's music collection. Well, if you have good taste, that is.
Essential listening.

 

MATS & MORGAN UPDATE

Mats & Morgan's new 6 CD box set is not only available from Morgan's website / webshop (http://shop.morganagren.com/), but also from Bandcamp !

https://morganagren.bandcamp.com/album/40th-anniversary-box-set-6cd?

MATS/MORGAN 40TH ANNIVERSARY BOX SET IS AVAILABLE

Mats & Morgan's "40th Anniversary" 6 CD box set is available from Morgan's on-line shop (and from other Yuripean shops) :

http://shop.morganagren.com/

For the digital download version, visit :

https://morganagren.bandcamp.com/album/40th-anniversary-box-set-6cd

And to check out the Japanese edition with a bonus disc (= a 7 CD box), go to:

https://diskunion.net/progre/ct/detail/1008389797

NEW RELEASES FROM MATS / MORGAN BAND

Morgan Ågren's bandcamp page is offering the digital download version of their 40th anniversary box set.
I'm assuming that there will also be a physical set released soon.

• CD1: RADIO LIVE STREAM
• CD2: TRUM
• CD3: SCHACK TATI
• CD4: TRENDS AND OTHER DISEASES
• CD5: THANKS FOR FLYING WITH US
• CD6: LIVE WITH NORRLANDSOPERAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

MATS & MORGAN ANNOUNCE 6 CD BOX SET

Mats Öberg & Morgan Ågren will be releasing a 6 CD box early November.

Morgan says:
Box ready for printing!!
Six remastered CDs w. great artwork by Jimmy Ågren
40th Anniversary Box Set will be available early November.

CD1: Radio Live Stream

CD2: TRUM

CD3: Schack Tati

CD4: Trends And Other Diseases

CD5: Thanks For Flying With Us

CD6: Live w. NO. Symph. Orch.
(+ a bunch of unreleased music)

MATS / MORGAN - LIVE STREAM DUO

June 26, Mats (Öberg) and Morgan (Agren) did broadcast a live concert on Youtube.
It was fabulous.

For those who missed, those who want to hear it again, those who want to support Mats & Morgan, the audio recording of this concert has been made available through Bandcamp.

MATS AND MORGAN LIVE ON YOUTUBE

Yesterday evening, 26/6, Mats and Morgan performed live on Youtube.
Goosebumps.

It's still available, so if you've missed it, you can still watch it.

the setlist was shown at the end :

MORGAN ÅGREN NEWSFLASH

Morgan Ågren has uploaded new material to his Bandcamp page.

There's the hilarious 'Jamin' w. Kenneth',
"... a 10 minute jam with that crazy multimillionaire televangelist Kenneth Copeland."



and there's this compilation album :