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…is coming up! Having added a few sounds in a cottage, seven days of studio sessions, home visits, instrument lending, hammering, pondering, bickering picking, singilinging, word grooming (…) will fill up the week to come. Back to the lab! Still a month left to make a tiny contribution to a slumbering funding project, support ‘The… Read more
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A relaxing combo of rehearsing and vacationing, making the best of other people’s (close people’s) company, facilities and beers. Preparing a collaboration with Ninotchka in a cottage, on an island, in the green close to salty waters. Second week of recording coming up! (the baby is leased for emotional purposes) Read more
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Recordings are progressing speedily in the midst of early summer green. Surrounded by picturesque houses and topnotch company, it somewhat resembles vacation. That’s my perspective; Poul is working his ass off, drumming and working the machines, whilst my ass is comfortably placed on a couch in his close proximity, making encouraging to nagging remarks. Day… Read more
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After months of thinking, planning, going-abouting, plingelinging etc, it is time for the actual doing, the sharp shooting of sounds into the machinery. Tuesday about week from now, I shall move my body, guitar and appropriate survival gear to the small-scale society of Tobo, North of Uppsala. For five consecutive days, Poul Amaliel and I… Read more
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Dear reader, from today until the end of July, you can help to kickstart my up-coming record, The Creek And the Carving, to be released in September/October of this year! Any contribution, even the smallest, is much appreciated. Take a peek at the link below: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1767661836/the-creek-and-the-carving Thank you music freaks! Read more
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Here’s a little note for you all, or the two of you, of activity, the activity of yours truly. My general lack of activity on the wwweb since New Year’s sometime directly corresponds to a general abundance of activity going on in my head/appartment, on my wall/piano/guitar and so forth. My second album The Creek… Read more
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As uncomfy as it may sound (and, to my experience, is), I’ve recorded some acoustic versions of unreleased songs in front of an imaginary audience (equals better than no audience). The three songs published, in addition to some ten more, will appear in a somewhat different-looking dress of sound on my upcoming record (mid-late 2015)… Read more
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For anyone wanting to introduce a piece of Stockholm to an inquisitive friend, here’s an article by Katrin Zdragka suitable for the purpose and accompanied by one of my tunes! http://arive.gr/subs/ve_projects/travels/stockholm/stockholm_eng.html Read more
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This is the home of the music and words of Kristoffer Axén. I’m a plinger-plongplayer residing outside of Stockholm, who writes and (sometimes) perform progressive pop with stains of early Genesis, Elliot Smith and Procol Harum (very retro, yes). Whilst this site is being developed peu à peu my debut album Strange Light Music can… Read more
Kristofer Axén 