I have been hard at work on finishing Sky Meet Sea so I haven’t played out in a while but this Sunday I will be playing a short set at Room 5.
Come on out if you are around, I’m on at 8:15p and it’s a great lineup all night.
I’ll be playing songs from the upcoming album.
Room 5 – upstairs at Amalfi Restaurant
143 N. La Brea Ave
The cover for my next album is done. More info at SkyMeetSea.com.
Many thanks to Nathan Fowkes for his work.
I have a very specific image that I am looking for as the cover for Sky Meet Sea and I was hoping my sister could do it but she is too busy being a full-time mother. I started looking around for someone else to execute my vision and I stumbled onto the site for Nathan Fowkes who I think is absolutely amazing. I have asked him to help and I am hoping he says yes! His eye for color is truly stunning and because the image I want is a sunset with a lot of complex and subtle hues I know he could knock it out of the park.
I have had great luck with all of the wonderful people that have done cover art for me in the past, so let’s hope my lucky streak continues. In any case, if you are not aware of Nathan’s work, you should be. Spend 5 minutes looking at his blog and you will wish you were a graphic artist.
This is a great lesson in why one must google oneself every now and again. I do this somewhere between every month and every quarter – both to verify my own SEO efforts but also to eavesdrop on anyone who is posting stuff on the internets about me. Sometimes, you find new things that you don’t expect. Like that one time I found a whole album of live shots from a Hotel Cafe show that I forget even existed.
Today, at the top of page 27 of my google search for ‘Krister Axel review’, I found this.
John Popper jams with Krister Axel
Yup, that is a really great shot of me jamming with the one and only John Popper. This was taken at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas around March of 2006. I was performing a set at the One-2-One bar (love that place) and in the middle of Southern Girl, John Popper hears the music through the window, likes it, walks in, someone hands him a microphone and he jams along. The timing was priceless. He took my solo for me. 
So as it turns out, my friends over at One-2-One must have taken the picture, and are using it as one of their profile photos with ReverbNation. Thankfully someone put my name in the caption and google found it. Awesome.
From left: John Popper, Bart Ryan, and Krister Axel.
Off screen: Matt Delvecchio, Adam Marcello and Joel Eckels.
