Mikael W Gejel

Swedish musician and author, sometimes active under the pseudonym Dan Videdrott, born March 29, 1952 in Enskede, Stockholm. He plays guitar, recorder, recorder, bansuri, electric bass, tabla and darbouka (Turkish hand drum). He is a philosophy candidate in the history of religion and the culture and social life of antiquity. Gejel has been active in various folk music groups since the 1970s, including Karlavagnen (together with Peter Lindahl and Stefan Ottman), Vilmeids lekare, Energioperan, In the Labyrinth and Drakhjärta. Gejel has also been active as a writer and lecturer in the subjects of shamanism, hermetism and anthroposophy. He has been the editor of magazines such as Gimle, Athanor, Misraim-Bladet and, together with Stefan Ottman, Drömskrinet.