alex comments “i just want it to be musically fulfilling, irrespective of the what genre the listener is usually in to.”

alex has always been immersed in music and in his youth sang in the durham cathedral choir for four years, he is also an accomplished cellist and pianist and received a musical scholarship in his teens. it was four years ago that he turned his talent to all things electronic and ‘incommunicado’ is a culmination of this work.
“music‘s my first love so it just made sense to give it a try when the opportunity came with my first computer. i realised you didn‘t need anything else except imagination and some simple software.”

signed to soma in 2004, he first came to prominence with his two remixes of funk d’void’s ‘way up high’, later came his twisted re-rub of envoy’s ‘move on’ and his debut soma release ‘chica wappa’ he has already gained a fantastic reputation from these and his ‘simple things’ twelve on cool german label vakant.

the album is very personal to alex and he has also designed all the artwork, the title ‘incommunicado’ is relevant to him on a number of levels.

as he says “it‘s a combination of influences really; the notion that somehow, even with all the advances in the world and the pace of technology, we‘re becoming worse at communicating with each other, more selfish and less in touch with the world as a whole. the other reason is more personal, and just relates to me being quite distant sometimes, and wanting to live on a hill in a shed or something!”

this theme ripples throughout the album – and there is a real edge of introspection and emotion, shimmering machine music with a soul. spine-tingling strings are evident all the way through ‘incommunicado’ and tracks like album opener ‘6am’, ‘ok’ and ‘passing through’ are both stunning and poignant. he also makes several vocal contributions that are a world apart from his chorist background, ‘don’t see the point’ is deep and glitchy minimal techno with a pertinent social commentary.