Ale Möller


Arild Staffan Möller, known professionally as Ale Möller, is a Swedish musician and composer.
He was born and grew up in Scania in southern Sweden and started in music as a jazz trumpeter. He lived for a while in Greece where he learned to play the bouzouki and played with composer Mikis Theodorakis. Möller has been a member of Frifot, Stockholm Folk Big Band, Enteli, Filarfolket, Ale Möller's Lyckliga Enmansorkester, and Neo Minore. He has worked with Aly Bain, Bruce Molsky, Robin Williamson, Gunnar Stubseid, Lena Willemark, Per Gudmundson, Jonas Knutsson, Sten Källman, and Thomas Ringdahl.
He plays traditional Scandinavian music. He is also a notable proponent of world music, combining Swedish folk traditions with those of Shetland, Greece, India, and West Africa. He plays bouzouki, mandola, accordion, flute, shawm, dulcimer, harp, and harmonica. His mandola is adapted to include extra frets.

Discography

  • 1980 – Filarfolket – Birfilarmusik från Malmö
  • 1981 – Neo Minore – Grekisk – svensk musik
  • 1982 – Filarfolket – Utan tvekan
  • 1983 – Filarfolket – Hönsafötter och Gulerötter
  • 1984 – Ale Möllers Lyckliga Enmansorkester – Dragspelsmusik från Uppsalaslätten
  • 1985 – Filarfolket – Live
  • 1986 – Ale Möller – Bouzoukispelman
  • 1987 – Ale Möller/Gunnar Stubseid – Rammeslåtten
  • 1988 – Filarfolket – Smuggel
  • 1988 – Ale Möllers Lyckliga Emmansorkester – Kompassmusik Vol. 1
  • 1990 – Möller, Berglund, Brändström, Sörlin – Härjedalspipan
  • 1991 – Möller, Willemark, Gudmundson – Frifot
  • 1993 – Frifot – Musique des vallées Scandinaves
  • 1993 – Filarfolket – Vintervals
  • 1994 – Enteli – Enteli
  • 1994 – Ale Möller/Lena Willemark – Nordan
  • 1994 – Möller, Källman & Ringdahl – Vind
  • 1995 – Enteli – Sagan om Ringen
  • 1996 – Ale Möller – Hästen och Tranan ''''
  • 1996 – Ale Möller/Lena Willemark – Agram
  • 1996 – Frifot – Järven
  • 1997 – Enteli – Live
  • 1997 – Ale Möller/Gunnar Stubseid – Reisaren
  • 1999 – Stockholm Folk Big Band – Latitudes Crossing
  • 1999 – Frifot – Frifot –
  • 2000 – Stockholm Folk Big Band – Krokodilfiolen
  • 2001 – Ale Möller/Aly Bain – Fully Rigged
  • 2003 – Frifot – Sluring
  • 2004 – Ale Möller Band – Bodjal
  • 2005 – Ale Möller/Louise Hoffsten – Jul i Folkton
  • 2007 – Ale Möller/Aly Bain – Beyond The Stacks
  • 2007 – Ale Möller Band – Djef Djel
  • 2007 – Frifot – Flyt
  • 2012 – Ale Möller Band – Argai
  • 2013 – Ale Möller / Bohuslan Big Band – Pegasus
  • 2024 – Ale Möller med Mats Öberg & Olle Linder – ''Andras''

    As guest

  • 1977 - Mikael Wiehe & Kabaréorkestern - Sjömansvisor
  • 1978 - Thomas Wiehe - Två Vindar
  • 1979 - Mikis Theodorakis & Collegium Musicum - To Axion Esti
  • 1979 - Mikael Wiehe & Kabaréorkestern - Elden är lös
  • 1989 - Simon Simonssons Kvartett - Längs gamla stigar
  • 1989 - Lena Willemark - När som gräset det vajar
  • 1990 - Mari Boine-Persen - Gula Gula
  • 1991 - Kalle Moraeus - Kalle Moraeus
  • 1992 - Ted Ström - 1000 & Ett Liv
  • 1992 - Gina Jacobi - Det här är bara början
  • 1994 - Hector Zazou - Chansons de mers froides
  • 1997 - Jonas Knutsson - Malgomaj
  • 1998 - Johan Hedin - Angel archipelago
  • 1999 - Bengt Berger Old School - All Time High
  • 2000 - Ulf Lundell - I ett vinterlandskap
  • 2001 - E-Type - Euro IV ever
  • 2002 - Robin Williamson - Skirting The River Road
  • 2002 - Harv - Tröst
  • 2003 - Jeanette Lindström - Walk
  • 2004 - Kato Kanako - Kato Kanako
  • 2005 - Sofia Karlsson - Svarta Ballader
  • 2005 - Haugaard & Højrup - ''Gæstebud''