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I was born in Oxford, the youngest of three children. My father ran his own successful pharmacy while my mother kept house. I had a
carefree childhood with endless summers full of chasing through the woods and days on the river. The very stuff of Boys Own.
I enjoyed school and was particularly proud to have attended Oxford Boys with it’s strong sense of tradition and mythical former
pupil T.E Lawrence. Better known as Lawrence Of Arabia. It was there that my interest in music and the arts first started to bloom.
I started my musical life in a synthy duo but quickly traded it in for a place playing keyboards in a psychedelic rock band. We all lived
together, partied together and toured, toured, toured. Carefree times in a battered old mini van when we felt we could conquer the
world. However it couldn’t last and I headed for London looking for a job in a recording studio. I had no real idea of what I wanted,
I just knew I was in love with all the toys and the studio was the only place I wanted to be.
I took the usual route of Tape-op to Engineer and then onto Producing and once again making written contributions and recording as
an artist. I have had the privilege of working with a few of the world’s greatest musicians and have recorded everybody from the
fantastically famous to the obscure and sometimes bloody awful. Coffee adverts, film soundtracks, electro, ambient, rock, jazz and
back again. Remixes, concept albums, pushy Japanese executive producers, and every station in between, but. After a few years the
dream started to fall apart and I knew it was a time for a change. So I up rooted and moved to Germany. Work was no problem as my
management kept me supplied with things to do and I’d reached a point where I no longer had to be based in London to work, but it
just wasn’t the same any more and so I quit. Back then the last bit of commercial work I did was a remix for Tony Banks from Genesis.
More than ten years past and it wasn’t until my fourteen year old son started to ask about the framed discs hanging on the wall or
what dad had done for a job before his 9 to 5. That I started to think about all my old gear in storage in the cellar. I dragged it out and
after playing around for a few weeks was surprised to find out that I was enjoying myself, and that it was so easy to start writing
again. Maybe I had something to say after all and the ideas just started to spill out.
Since then I have recorded and released nine original albums, five live albums (two double), five Remix/Mix albums, three EP’s, and a
film soundtrack. As well as performing live at festivals across Europe. I’ve also produced, mixed, remixed and mastered for other
artists, and along with afp and performing live with my life partner Ashka. I’m also part of the band Sedibus together with Lx Paterson
from the Orb, with our début album The Heavens going straight into the UK Indie Charts at #10.
NEWS
The new live album Cambra (plus) Live from
Milliways is available Now on Bandcamp.
Download your copy HERE
GALLERY
“The first LP had a great reception and
sold so well I couldn’t even get a copy
myself. Andy is brilliant at making
ambient music, and working with him is
always rewarding. We understand each
other’s brains – it’s easy and organic -
so doing another made total sense.
SETI stands for Search For
Extraterrestrial Intelligence, but it’s also
something you sit on, to chill out, which
is why the album contains a Three
Piece Suite. This record is musical
ambience, which is what we like to
make, rather than drone ambience,
which there’s a lot of these days.”
Over email from his studio in Portugal,
Falconer adds, “the first album The
Heavens was very much a reflection of
our shared roots, and in many ways
saw Alex and I simply picking up where
we'd left off 30 years ago with
Ultraworld. For SETI, we still wanted to
keep a connection to the sound of The
Heavens, but to also crack open that
musical mould and explore new
ground. Part of that aspect was to
further expand the use of acoustic
instruments in both recognisable and
processed form.
SCHOOL BAND TO PRODUCER
We've always been very much on the same
page creatively and one of the great things
with working with Alex is that nothing is
out of bounds, and we've just continued to
build on that solid relationship of trust and
shared curiosity.”
The new album Extrapolated Memories Of Forgotten Films
Coming 23rd December via Bandcamp
