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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 attend Oxford Boys with it’s 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. After a few years the dream
started to fall apart for me and I knew it was a time for a change. 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 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, two live double albums, 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’ve also formed the new 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
"Alex Paterson and Andy Falconer reunite after
nearly 30 years to collaborate on what is almost
very nearly an Orb album but then also, clearly isn’t.
" - Igloo Magazine
The first release on Orbscure Recordings is Sedibus
‘The Heavens’, released 28th May, an astonishing
collaboration between Alex and original Orb
member Andy Falconer who engineered/co-wrote
the ambient sides of the ‘Ultraworld’ album back in
1991.
An original deep space mission, ‘The Heavens’
imbues 30 years of experience, skill and insight.
“Organic in feel and clearly referencing our shared
roots, ‘The Heavens’ is an immersive journey of
ambient electronica which not only references a
source, but the distance travelled from that point of
origin to something new,” says Andy.
From the euphonious soundscapes of ‘Afterlife
Aftershave’ and the pulsating textures of ‘TOI 1338b,
to the irresistible beats and bombastic piano of
‘Unknowable’ and immersive deep ambiance of
‘Papillions’, ‘The Heavens’ sets the benchmark for an
exciting new future for Orbscure Recordings.
The new album Daedalus
Is out now and available on Bandcamp.
Click HERE to download.
Or get on over to Bandcamp
and discover all my albums.
GALLERY
"The Heavens rewrites the current
ambient discourse back away from
the admittedly hugely seductive dub-
textural and post-classical nuclei of
Berlin and Tokyo, and reintroduces a
good old trippy-as-fuckness to the
world. Luxurious. Buy." -
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