After finishing school, Anders took a job at the ironworks in Degerfors, where, in his spare time, he practiced orienteering and played rock music on the guitar.

After hearing the band Kebnekajse on the radio, Anders became interested in the melodies of traditional Swedish folk music.

He also developed an interest in the construction of musical instruments and participated in a four-year course in violin making in Leksand.

The group wrote and played a major part in the music-to-theatre project Den stora vreden (rough translation: The Great Wrath) at Gävleborgs folkteater (the county theatre of Gävleborg), first time performed in 1988, that attracted much attention.

Anders has dedicated an important amount of his creativity to the potentials offered by such ancient instruments as Swedish bagpipes, the moraharpa (an early predecessor of the nyckelharpa) and the sälgflöjt or willow flute.