Welcome to the wonderful world of Axel Krygier.
Axel is from Buenos Aires, Argentina, the home of Gauchos and Tango.

At his parents’ home there was always music about. The Beatles, the soundtrack to “Tommy,” Jesus Crist Superstar, French music and children’s music. Then at his grandparents’ there was the piano that nobody played. Until, of course, Axel began playing out soundtracks to his childhood imagination. When he was 8 he began to study music, and started playing in a small flute group… All the while he was a fanatic of cartoons like The Pink Panther and Meteor Man (meteoro).

As a child he went to concerts by The Weather Report, Caetano Veloso and at 10 Egberto Gismonti and this was when Axel was literally blown away by the traverse flute.

11 years old, he began studying this instrument and his afternoons were spent buying records and playing flute solos over King Crimson and Jethro Tull records. He began to discover such names as Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Monk, Serge Gainsbourg, Nino Rota (for Italian director Fellini), George Brassens, Boris Vian, and such experimental 80’s stuff like Brian Eno with David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, as well as African and Amazon musics, and the music of Cuchi Leguizamon.

By high school he was taken in by a band that fused Argentine and latinamerican folk with jazzy flamenco airs. He played flute with them from ages 13-17. At this time he dropped out to study flute with a good professor, piano and composition, and voice lessons. Folk music was not all that anymore and the flute was not taking him where he wanted to go, so he bought his first saxophone at age 16, but he never took lessons. He started playing and began to be invited by friends who had bands to play bizarre gigs through Argentina and Peru.

At 18 he bought a ministudio where he began to wrestle with new musical tecnologies. He got some songs onto the radio and was asked to do music for theater. At this time he quit his study of classical instruments to study harmony autoperception and musical analysis. He also started a dadaist sax and clarinet duo with old buddy Terán called Mulo and played occasionally with such Argentine groups as Los Pericos and Soda Stereo, as well as stints as a studio musician. Axel begins to rub elbows with a new group of forward thinking Argentine musicians.

In 1990 he bought his baritone sax and began playing with Terán in a group called La Portuaria, with whom he played at Expo ’92 in Sevilla, Spain, and the Festival NonStop in Barcelona in ’96 (the group splits).

In 93, together again with Terán they set up a small orchestra also named Mulo to play their own songs, which they played live. After the break up of La Portuaria in ’96 Axel was free to do his own music.

Around this time Axel and Terán had a jazz quintet, where they had fun and explored new ground.

After doing some music for commercials, he had more money for more studio contraptions and continued doing music for films and dance. At this point Axel had lots of songs completed and began forming a body of work.

This body of work came to be known as “Echale Semilla” and was released in 1999 on the Argentine label Los Años Luz Discos. A copy reached HiTop in Madrid and it was released in 2001, along with two limited edition 10”s with remixes by Spanish producer Watch TV.

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