# Music > Bands and music projects, 1988 → today: Arbetarorkestern, Howler Monkey Gods, Moveable, and many other international music ensembles. ### Arbetarorkestern Bass · World · collective · 2025–present Collective world-music ensemble from Stockholm — West African grooves, southern African choral traditions, roots reggae, and Swedish folk song on one stage. Arbetarorkestern — "the workers' orchestra" — is a collective world-music ensemble based in Stockholm. The name carries the weight of the Swedish prog and working-class ballad tradition, but the music reaches far beyond any one country: West African grooves, southern African call-and-response, Ugandan songs of exile, roots reggae, Latin American nueva trova, and Swedish poets like Cornelis Vreeswijk and Mikael Wiehe all share the stage. Highlights so far: a memorial concert for the Namibian musician Tauna Niingungo at the Museum of Ethnography (September 2025), and Tidafestivalen in June 2026. The repertoire spans thirteen languages. [arbetarorkestern.klokie.com](https://arbetarorkestern.klokie.com) ### Björkhagen Big Band Guitar, Bass · Jazz · big band · 2017–2018 Stockholm community big band — jazz standards and swing arrangements for a full horn section, rhythm, and guitar. A Stockholm community big band playing jazz standards and swing charts for a full horn section and rhythm. A change of pace from the louder projects — sight- reading, section playing, and comping guitar in the middle of a wall of brass. [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/klokie/sets/bjorkhagen-big-band) ### Drine / Mutual Hate Society / Flowers of Evil Guitar · Grunge · alt-rock · 1989–1993 The teenage band, under four names across four years — the loud, formative one. The teenage band, evolving through four names across four years: **Flowers of Evil**, **Mutual Hate Society**, **Shutdown**, and finally **Drine**. Loud, formative, and where the guitar habit started. ### Howler Monkey Gods Bass, lyrics, co-producer · Emo · melodic metal · speed metal · grunge · 2009–2014 Diesel-powered melodic metal from Stockholm — grunge, black metal, and prog, somewhere between Alice in Chains, Mastodon, and Queens of the Stone Age. Howler Monkey Gods were a Stockholm-based four-piece forged in the dark Swedish winter of 2009. Their sound — diesel-powered melodic metal — drew from grunge, black metal, emo, and prog, landing somewhere between Alice in Chains, Mastodon, and Queens of the Stone Age. The band was Tompa (vocals, guitar), Mogge (guitar, keys), Robban (drums — founding member of pioneering Swedish black metal band Mefisto), and Klokie (bass). Between 2009 and 2014, HMG self-recorded and released four EPs from their Stockholm studio — including _Roadside Sleeping_, featuring a duet with Swedish singer and actress Regina Lund. All four are on [Bandcamp](https://howlermonkeygods.bandcamp.com). [Bandcamp](https://howlermonkeygods.bandcamp.com) ### Klokie (solo) Solo · instrumental · electronic Solo recordings, production, and scoring. Solo work spans music for solo guitar and piano, vocal pieces, and electronic production — plus scoring, including the trailer for the documentary _Gringo Trails_. An ongoing home for whatever doesn't belong to a band. [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/klokie) ### Moveable Guitar, vocals, producer · Math rock · post-hardcore · indie rock · 1993–2000 Loud rock trio, Boston → New York City — abrasive yet melodic, filed somewhere near the Fall, Gang of Four, Fugazi, Slint, and the Jesus Lizard. moveable began during the long winter of 1994 with five 19-year-old boys in Boston and rose from the ashes as a trio in New York City by 1998: Kyle Richards (bass, vocals), Bill French (drums), and Klokie (guitar). The band had cycled through earlier names first — **Cornelius [the Younger]**, **Merrick**, and **The J. Edgars** — before settling on moveable. Once described as "the soundtrack for the sexually frustrated," then more accurately as "dynamic, between really loud and sort of loud." Releases: a 7" on Front Yard Records (1997), a split single with post-rock neighbors Cathode (Polterchrist Records, 1998), a third single on Sandbox Records (1999), and a self-titled CD in 1998 recorded at Supersonic in Cambridge, MA. In March 2000 the band cut twelve tracks with Ric Peletier at the Parlour in Pawtucket, RI for what would have been their full-length; they broke up before it was finished, and those rough mixes are the record that never was. Played the Continental, Coney Island High, Luna Lounge, Brownies, the Middle East, the Rat, and most respectable (and otherwise) rooms in the Northeast. The catalog is on [Bandcamp](https://moveable.bandcamp.com), reissued on the band's own Front Yard Records: the 1998 CD, the full live set from the Choppin' Block (June 12, 1998), the 2000 Parlour demo, and four 2020 remixes made from the original multitracks. [Bandcamp](https://moveable.bandcamp.com) ### The Phil & Joe Band Guitar · Jazz · 1993–1994 Boston. ### They Go Down Guitar · Rock · 2009–2010 Stockholm rock — the band that became Howler Monkey Gods. A short-lived Stockholm rock project that turned out to be the direct precursor to **Howler Monkey Gods** — same orbit of players, heavier by the end. --- Source: https://www.klokie.com/music/ · Site index: https://www.klokie.com/llms.txt