Confident Music

Confident Music's / Jan Hellman's Link Page

www.confidentmusic.com
- Confident Music. Jan´s little record company.
You will find information and news here about the
artists and projects as well as the studio.

www.janhellman.com
- Jan Hellman´s personal website.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS / EQUIPMENT

www.jgguitars.com
- Johan Gustavsson. The no. one guitar luthier around.
I´ve known Johan since 1988 and he has made me four
instruments that are absolutely superb! Can´t be better.

www.stick.com
- Stick Enterprices. A small family runned company
that invented and makes the Stick (or the Chapman Stick as
it is also often called). Emmet, Yuta and co. are great!

www.nedsteinberger.com
- N.S. Design/Ned Steinberger.
Ned is the man behind my elctric up-right bass.

www.ebs.bass.se
- My friends at EBS! They make wonderful amplifiers for folks like
myself that prefer to mess about in the lower frequencies.

www.ernieball.com/mmonline
- Music Man basses.

www.kensmithbasses.com
-Kens Smith basses.

www.luthman.se
- Luthman Scandinavia. Only in Swedish.

www.instrument-online.nu/estrad
- Estrad Musik. Music store. Only in Swedish.

www.emagic.de
- Emagic. Software company that are now owned by Apple.

www.braunerusa.com
- Brauner microphones.

www.avalondesign.com
- Avalon microphone preamps.

www.motu.com
- MOTU (Mark Of The Unicorn) makes high quality
recording equipment.

www.studer.ch
- Company in Switzerland that makes sound mixers and
multi track tape machines.

www.theremin.info
- Site with info about the Theremin, a musical electronic instrument
invented by Russian inventor Leon Theremin around 1917.
The first ever syntheziser!

FAVORITE ARTISTS /GROUPS

www.petergabriel.com
- Peter Gabriel.

www.sarahmclachlan.com
- Sarah McLachlan.

www.righteousbabe.com
- Righteous babe records/Ani Difranco.

www.beatles.com
- The Beatles.

www.teitur.com
- Teitur. Very fine artist from the Faroe Islands/Denmark.

www.paulacole.com
- Paule Cole.

www.warrenzevon.com
- Warren Zevon. A long time favorite who is no longer around.
A multi talented musician and songwriter.

www.wim-wenders.com/art/buenavistasocialclub.htm
- Buena Vista Social Club/Wim Wenders official site.

www.worldcircuit.co.uk
- World circuit. Brittish record company that, among othher things,
made the Buena Vista Social Club project happen.

www.officialtomwaits.com
- Tom Waits.

www.daniellanois.com
- Daniel Lanois, Canadian producer, musician and
artist who have worked with U2, Peter Gabriel,
Bob Dylan, Neville Brothers, Ron Sexsmith,
Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Robbie Robertson,
Brian Eno among many others,.

www.davematthewsband.com
- Dave Matthews band.

www.davidsylvian.net
- David Sylvian. Former singer in Japan
(the band, not the country).

www.kevingilbert.com
- Very fine singer, songwriter, musician who unfortunately
died a few years ago at age 27. I met him in Japan in –89.

WHISKY

www.laphroaig.com
- Islay single malt.

www.bruichladdich.com
- Another Islay single malt.

www.glenoradistillery.com
- The only single malt distillery in North America.

www.smws.com
- The Scottish malt whisky society.

www.akkurat.se
- A great whisky bar here in Stockholm.

www.mackmyra.com
- A Swedish single malt distillery!

WINE

www.chateau-margaux.com
- One of the finest wine castles in the world.

www.chateau-yquem.com
- THE no. one wine maker in the world. Sweet white Sauternes wine.

VEHICLES

www.mclaren.com
- The McLaren F1 team.

www.formula1.com
- The official F1 site.

www.ferrari.com
- Ferrari.

www.harley-davidson.com
- Harley-Davidson Motorcycles. Scuba diving.

SCUBA DIVING

www.suunto.com
- Finnish company that makes diving computers.

www.seaandsea.com
- Makes high quality underwater camera housings and cameras.

www.scubapro.com
- Regulators, computers, wet suits e.t.c.

www.waterhouse.se
- Scuba diving store/club here in Stockholm. Stefan, that runs the place,
is great and, like me, very interested in motorcycles. In Swedish only.

PHOTOGRAPHY

www.canon.com
- High quality cameras among other things.

www.nikon.com
- High quality digital/analogue cameras.

www.hasselblad.com
- High quality cameras.

FRIENDS

www.janolofstrandberg.com
- Finnish bass player that does fantastic things with his instrument.

www.astralnetart.com
- Pelle Händén, web artist, musician and good friend.

www.thebigcasino.nu
- The Big Casino. They are mad!

www.kortirocken.nu
- Kort i Rocken band. A cover (top 40) band that I and my friends formed in the early -90's. They are still going strong! Great lads! In Swedish only.

www.ladybgoode.nu
- Another great Swedish cover band. In Swedish only.

www.visuelltljud.se
- Visuellt ljud (Visual sound). My friend Anders Brisling records and produces books on CD´s. You can listen to the Lord of the Ring while driving your car. In Swedish only.

www.cichlidpress.com
- Ad Konings publishes books about Cichlids in Lake Malawi, Lake Tanganyika and South America. He lives in El Paso, Tx, and is probably one of the best under water photographers around.

www.hovendroven.com
- Swedish folk music band that likes is heavy every ones in awhile. If you ever get a chance to see them, GO FOR IT!! They are truely amazing and they do tour pretty much all around the globe. Great lads!

www.morganagren.com
- Morgan Ågren. A truely amazing drummer that has played with Frank Zappa among others.

www.lisamiskovsky.com
- Singer/songwriter Lisa Miskovskys official site.

www.nilserikson.com
- Keyboard player/singer/songwriter/producer. Nils is a very good friend of mine. He is very much into big brittish cars that that can be used in the country side. In Swedish only.

www.carptree.com
- Carptree is a very fine swedish symfonic rock/pop/neo prog band. Keyboard-player Carl is a big fan of the Pearl Harbour movie featuring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez ex. boyfriend.

www.sliderecords.com
- Slide records. A small record company that, among other things, releases my friend guitarr-player Jonas Isaksson´s records. Jonas has played with pretty much all successfull artists in Sweden.

www.fridhem.fhsk.se
- Fridhem. The school where I studied music back in the -80´s.
Only in Swedish.

OTHER LINKS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

www.hearnet.com
- Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers. A non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of the real dangers of repeated exposure to excessive noise levels which can lead to permanent, and sometime debilitating, hearing loss and tinnitus.

www.michaelmoore.com
- American film maker Michael Moore.

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