ShapeShiftingAliens

Johan Cleve & Niklas Rundquist met when backing rockpoet iodine Jupiter on tour, shortly after his Sony/Startone release that Niklas co-wrote and preproduced. Johan played the guitar and Niklas electric violin/ keyboards. Johan, with a background as a punk/hardrockmusician and a unique sense of vocal lines and Niklas, with a classical background but on a synth/sampletrip in the ambient realms, involved in film/media music and installations. They soon considered a cooperation since the chemistry was good but it took two years before they finally took the leap, gradually coming up with some pretty dark but melodic music where guitars, samples and fx married in a way never heard before. SSA has been featured in Electronic Musician
and went straight into number 3 on C-Tubes 45th video chart to finally reach number 1 on the 46th chart with Cut To The Bone the 11th of mars 2009.
Their music certainly evoke pictures and is also much appreciated by filmproducers. Recent tracks tend to be more electronic but they refuse to linger on a well trodden path if inspiration is pushing towards a new direction. The only constant in the artistic work is that they rather stand beside the mainstream in favour of exploration but never on the expense of strong melodic contents. Hence the name ShapeShiftingAliens.
Featuring on the newly added song Love Is A Battlefield is the amazing vocalist and friend Ingrid Contardo. Future co-works are planned with Nolan Cook of the Residents and kiN a.k.a. Sara Solblomma