Fleshquartet is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 band. Although they have five members, the name comes from the band consisting of an often electrical string quartet

String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...

 plus a percussionist. The name is inspired by classical ensemble Freskkvartetten. They often collaborate with vocalists, and the list of vocalists they have recorded with contains the likes of Who's Who of Swedish alternative music. The musical style ranges from classical string music, to experimental rock.

They won a Grammis

Grammis

The Grammis Awards are the Swedish equivalent of the Grammy Awards. The awards ceremony is generally held each year in February in Stockholm.The awards were established in 1969 and awarded until 1972 when they were cancelled....

 award for best album with their 1993 album "Flow".

The Band was named "Fläskkvartetten" after Joakim Thåström

Joakim Thåström

Sven Joachim Eriksson Thåström , as an artist known as Thåström, is one of Sweden's best known rock musicians, he is mostly known for the bands Ebba Grön and Imperiet...

 shouted "Fläska på" (Get moving/Hurry up) to the members whilst recording a new song.

"Fläskkvartetten" has provided incidental music for the Swedish television series Wallander.

Members

• Mattias Helldén, cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  
• Örjan Högberg, viola
  Viola
  The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
  
  
• Sebastian Öberg, cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  
• Jonas Lindgren, violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  
• Christian Olsson, drums, programming and samples

Discography

• Meat Beat (1987)
• What's Your Pleasure? (1988)
• Goodbye Sweden (1990)
• Fläskkvartetten (1992)
• Flow (1993)
• Pärlor från svin (1995)
• Fire Fire (1996)
• Jag gör vad som helst för lite solsken (1998)
• Love Go (2000)
• Pärlor från svin 2 (2002)
• Vita Droppar (2003)
• Voices of Eden (2007)