Easy Speak Open Mike poster
I’ve been happy to work in this comission for Easy Speak and Spablab, the project of my poet friend Paul Nelson. I met Paul at Lake Chad Cafe during my neighborhood Jackson St. Jazz Walk. It was a concert of Seattle’s Jazz band Jim O’Halloran’s World Jam. The level of improvisation of bassist Farki Dosumov, […]
Koldo Barroso Imaginarium Exhibition 2017
Koldo Barroso IMAGINARIUM / Visions of Sounds 50 years of Magic, Imagination and Album Covers. A celebration of my 50th birthday on a trip through my many universes, dreamed of a collection of more than 60 original works of art. October, 2017 Seattle, WA STARLESS 1988 Acrylics Inspired by the King Crimson song “Starless” THE […]
Imaginarium Exhibition / Visions of Sounds
Dear friends: in October I turn 50. This year, I feel that I need to give something very special from myself. Many times my friends have told me that coming into my bedrooms and studios is like entering another world, another time, another dimension. Now, I feel that I need to give you a pass […]
Don’t Disturb – My Other Self
From time to time, the planets line up and you feel complete. This year, I’ve had the privilege of working on one of those musical projects where creative freedom, illusion and friendship converge. In addition to my task to create the cover as in other Don’t Disturb’s projects, this time I was also generously invited […]
A Ray of Sunshine in the Space Age
“A Ray of Sunshine” Listen to this little hymn to cosmic love in Bandcamp. July 1970. The intense rays of the sun in Formentera, Balearic Islands, penetrate my skin to the rhythm of a pop song plays everywhere you go in Spain. It’s Los Diablos “A Ray of Sun”. That happy music, that feeling of bright […]
Flamenco Cadiz-New York
Sometimes I get my fingers in the waters of the Pacific Ocean waters, here in Seattle, and I feel that I’m connected to the warm coasts of Spain, my homeland. I like to think that one of my beloved people is right at the same time doing just the same at the other side of […]
Mediterranean Fusion System
In the gloomy Seattle winter days like today, the speakers of my sound system become my fireplace. I rub my hands and bring them closer. The Mediterranean sound of Chano Domiguez keeps me warm and comforts me. I miss the Mediterranean culture in which I grew up, full of Sundays under the sun enjoying the swimming, family, […]
Jazzin’ in Seattle
It’s Friday night. I’m sitting at my drawing board in my studio loft at Hiawatha Artspace, Seattle. Through the generous windows, I can see the lights of the tall downtown buildings. I can hear them talk about magical and mysterious stories going on down there: impossible love affairs, unexpected reunions with old friends, the discovery of […]
Mambo Jambo album cover
Tito Puente, Cal Tjader & Eddie Palmieri, Cachao, Perez Prado… they are some of my Latin music heroes. It’s been exciting to put all of the fun vibes into this album cover. In the forthcoming year, I’m willing to work in other Latin and fusion projects, here in Seattle and also in Spain. If you’re […]
High Vibration Go On To The Sun
This illustration piece is my very personal tribute to a song that changed my life as a teenager: “Awaken”, from YES 1977 album “Going For the One“. The original size is 24″ x 24”. My older sister bought the album that very year. I was 10 years old and very soon I was completely mesmerized with […]
A new studio/home in Seattle’s Artspace
Naomi and I have just moved to our new studio/home at Hiawatha Artspace lofts in Seattle Central District. We applied for an apartment two years ago and now it’s become reality. We’re so happy to see our dream come true! Artspace is non-profit organization that provides affordable places where artists can live and work to […]
Days of Summer So Long
After a few years of musical hiatus, this summer I’ve been producing some music of my own. All the way through the summer I had this feeling in my guts that I needed to pull out so bad. I needed to capture and freeze the feeling of the everlasting summer evenings. Winters in Pacific North […]
Seattle land of deer
This summer I’ve been working in this album cover for a Seattle compilation project. When it comes to imagery, Seattle is such an inspirational city in so many ways!.. The mountains, the woods, the deer, Space Needle, the monorail… Boy, you couldn’t ask for more! All of these amazing elements are part of my daily […]
Jazz In Da House album cover
To get an estimation for your custom Album Cover please visit my Prices or contact me. This spring/summer season I’m going to be pretty busy with a new series of retro album covers. These will include some jazz, latin, exotica, tiki, electronic and space-age goodies. Here’s my latest album cover “Jazz In Da […]
Space Glam & Bowie
My new piece for the Space Age retro album cover series is a little tribute to the recently passed away David Bowie. It’s not the first one that I’ve done, since I had the pleasure of contributing in 2014 to Changes exhibition in Madrid, organized by Susanita Little’s Gallery, with Bowieman paper sculpture. This is […]
Space Age Era
Here’s the first piece of my new series of retro pop album cover collection that I’ve been introducing during my visit to Madrid in March. I’m working hard so I can probably see this collection exhibited by late summer here in Seattle and maybe hit some other galleries in Europe. I’m a child of the Space […]
A trip to Madrid
Naomi and I have been on a vacation trip to my hometown Madrid. It’s been an unforgettable time meeting our beloved family and friends! And the best time to enjoy the wonderful Spanish food, sun and it’s lively city night life that we missed so bad! In this trip, I have also taken the opportunity […]
Super Alex poster
This is a custom poster that I have created for my 7 years old nephew in Madrid, Alex. I wanted to make him feel excited everytime he looks at it so I’ve portrayed him at his fav things, which are playing tennis, swimming and Star Wars. It was so cool to give him this poster and see […]
Don’t Disturb album cover
This is the sleeve art I’ve been working lately. This is is the second release of Spanish jazz rock band “Don’t Disturb”, who are my best friends Juan Carlos D. Samper and Jorge Scapoli. I have also played some music with them myself in some of my former music adventures, since the 1980s so it’s […]
Spider Yo-Yo
I’m working on a series of sketches for a new Groovy Flipside piece. This time it’s a mashup of Spider-Man’s Gwen Stacy and Yo-Yos. As a kid I used to be hooked on her so bad! It’s kind of funny to think of her playing with a Spider-Man Yo-Yo. Here are some previews of the […]
Logan’s 54 chicks
My latest piece for the Groovy Flipside collection is a mashup of 70’s sci-fi classic movie Logan’s Run and iconic Studio 54 disco. It’s been fun to imagine sex symbols Farrah Fawcett & Jenny Agutter shake their sexy booties at the disco like there’s no mañana! Here you can see my process of sketching on […]
Visiting the Planet of the Selfies
I’ve been working on a new piece for the Groovy Flipside collection inspired by Hanna-Barbera Cartoon, which I used to watch every evening as a kid. The new mashup comes with Nova from one of the most iconic sci-fi movies ever the Planet of the Apes. With a wink to the selfie-mania going on today. […]
The comming of the Star Invaders
Here’s the first piece for a new series of mashup cartoon pieces called Groovy Flipside. It’s all about creating mashups of all the great American pop culture icons from my childhood. As every other kid of my generation, I grew up watching Hanna-Barbera & Warner cartoons, Bonanza, The Munsters, Bewitched, Charlie’s Angels, Space 1999 shows… […]
Portraits of Seattle
I’m working on a side project that has been inspired by my new home in Pacific North West, where I’ve spent the last eight years. All the time people keeps asking me how do I like this place. It’s easier for me to answer with pictures rather than words. Most of the time I have […]
David Bowie’s Changes Exhibition
I’ve had the pleasure of taking part of this very special collective tribute exhibition dedicated to David Bowie, organized by Susanita’s Little Gallery and hosted in Madrid Lunch Box & Tiki Room gallery. My paper sculpture piece, Bowieman, is an artistic interpretation as a tribute to Bowie and the generations of Spanish kids who grew up with his music and Madelman […]
Bandoleros, 2008
This work has been inspired by the mountains where I lived, in a small village in the North of Madrid called Soto del Real. Naomi and I would spend every weekend walking and hiking in the mountains and woods and sometimes we go to this area in the rocky mountains called La Pedriza. This is […]
Grey October Day
The lyrics of this song relates the situation between two lovers who get far from each other because of their indecision and passivity. So I pictured this image of two young lovers in an English period scenery, waiting for a letter that was never sent and never received, letting the fog grow slowly around their […]
Neverknowing, 2009
Illustration for Judy Dyble’s album “Talking With Strangers”, 2009. This song written by Tim Bowness and Alistair Murphy is about recovering an important part of ourselves that was always there. It’s the discovery of a precious treasure that was forgotten and abandoned; something that means an essential part of the character and is completely hidden […]
Ce’st La Vie
When I step into this project, I didn’t know that a cover of this song would be included. Being myself a HUGE fan of Peter Sinfield’s poetry, it was an amazing surprise for me! I’ve always loved this song recorded by Emerson, Lake and Palmer. For this particular lyrics, I was trying to capture the […]
Harp Song
When I first got involved into this project, I really didn’t have the foggiest idea that members of King Crimson were involved in the album. To know about the involvement of band members Robert Fripp, Ian McDonald and Pat Mastelotto in the album gave me the chills! King Crimson’s music has played an important influence […]
Talking With Strangers
For this illustration I was inspired by old engraving illustrations of ships from the 17th century. The song lyrics are about meeting people on the Internet and I had this idea of portraying the net as a flying city. See full project