Performance
Performance-ready projects that showcase fierce original writing & timeless folk storytelling in English & Uruguayan Spanish.
Vientos Band
7-piece band fresh off a UK tour, perfect for parties & festivals.
Euphoric folk snogging Latin Rock, drenched in harmony. Original music by Alex to get crowds jumping to an earthy, girthy new sound.
Vientos Trio
River deep, mountain wide, euphoric folk for earthy utopias
Intimate acoustic originals channeling 3-part harmony, South American guitar, British Isles & Irish folk sounds, bass clarinet & violin.
Storytelling Show
A history of South American revolutions through folk music
1-2 hour personal & political music & spoken word sharing songs from Chile, Argentina & Uruguay that shaped social movements over 60 years.
A Cappella Choir
Songs of joy & justice with pro singers & local choirs
Vocal performances celebrating the power of unaccompanied voices in harmony.
Debut Album
Songs of joy and justice to sing truth to power & weave communities together.
★★★★
“Oral history for the digital age”
Songlines
“demonstrates the power of music to unite, uplift and empower people - so brave”
“Stunning”
LWM
10 original a cappella songs recorded with 60 singers from 3 guest choirs including Fire Choir, Queer Murga & a pop-up QT Choir. From odes to sunsets, trans solidarity anthems, gospel-inspired call and response to a cappella salsas, it is a dance between genres and moods, all for the love of harmony.
Music parts are freely available online for choirs, community & campaigns & the show can be booked as a solo, trio, or 9 piece with percussion plus Alex can work with your local choir, all levels & abilities to involve them in a concert in your area.
Composition
Jazz, classical, folk, & electronica || Long-form, short-form, rich & complex, accessible & fun || All ages, topics, specific communities
I've composed across instruments & genres, connecting stories old & new, catering for different audiences & objectives, whether rich, complex melodies & harmonic journeys or channeling simplicity to invite the public to join in.
I've written over 50+ songs for myself, 20 commissions plus a 2.5hr musical. I've facilitated the composition of 40+ collaborative songs in workshops & residencies
I've written contemporary classical blues jazz funk soul pop British Isles/Irish folk nufolk
Specially for: string quartets brass woodwind salsa percussion candombe & Uruguayan Murga
I have arranged vocally & instrumentally for all the above plus zamba samba milonga (tango) MPB cueca Canción Nueva Chilena tropicalía
I sing tenor A2 - F#5 and play classical guitar steel-strung guitar piano clarinet charango cuatro Venezolano congas bongos cajón djembe analogue synth samplers & sequencers.
I produce in Ableton 12 Suite using UAD plugins/preamps AnalogLab FabFilter Valhalla Melda Melodyne Soundtoys iZotope UVI Falcon Serum Pigments.
Leaftape
Italian residency of electronic music producers co-writing 4 albums.
Alex sang & produced on 4 tracks.
Leaftape
Potenti
Experimental SATB operatic journey, translated & sung in Latin, underscoring Katarzyna Łukasik's surrealist 3D animation
Potenti
SATB Studio Edit
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October Fiesta
5 original pieces commissioned for ITZATNA, Birmingham's Day of the Dead kids' theatre cycle. Eerie soundscapes, Carnival Music, character theme songs, audio cues.
October Fiesta
Coyote
1 / 7
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Sex Worker's Opera
A 2.5hr musical with 20 songs, overture & finale, leitmotif, spanning jazz, classical, pop, hip-hop & electronica. Key songs devised with the community.
Sex Worker's Opera
2017 Live Highlights
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Molly's Masquerade
Original songs, community devised lyrics & classical arrangement of Lil Nas X for a queer choir for a Heritage Lottery project on London's 18th c. queer underground.
Molly's Masquerade
World We Deserve
1 / 4
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Edible Utopia
Composing songs for rhubarb, worms & mushrooms at Somerset House thru Clare Patey's project around circular economies, rooftop jungles & urban rewilding.
Edible Utopia
Rhubarb Jam
1 / 3
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Short Film
Alex' debut 11 minute short Johnny Barnes takes a lost folk song to a genderqueer utopia.
5 film festivals, 3 countries
- Encounters, Bristol, UK
- Sunrise Film Festival, Lowestoft, UK
- Glasgow Zine Fest, UK
- Go Short, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- ReelOUT Festival, Kingston, Canada
Impact in 12 Schools
210 young people, 150 teachers
Workshops engage young people around trans/non-binary hxstory via storytelling & train teachers to leverage arts, hxstory & geography to do the same.
Co-Designed Pantheon
by non-binary emerging artists
We asked: “If you were a goddex what would you be? What powers would you have? Over what human aspects you be custodian?”. Custom costumes, props & choreography were co-designed with the performers.
Industry Level Production
written, directed, performed by Alex
Filmed on ARRI Alexa Mini with a full camera team in a temple, a boat at sea, catacombs & open fields with support from Arts Council England.
Fire Choir
Folk for Social Change community choir on Monday's 7-9pm in King's Cross.
Fire Choir taps into a rich repertoire of songs rooted in social change, British Isles and Irish folk from the present going back hundreds of years, and songs in multiple languages. Fire Choir take songs to the streets, show solidarity at demonstrations, community centres, movement organising events and local charities.
Highlights - what sets us apart
- No experience necessary! No auditions! No sheet music!
- Learn songs by ear, with clear recordings of each part
- High level singing, rich arrangements for all vocal ranges
- Easier arrangements for community settings & encouraging others to join in
- Challenging arrangements with jazzy harmonies develop musicianship & resonance
- Members welcomed to outreach to frontline communities to offer song in solidarity
- Regular socials, DIY singing circles & outings to uplifting cultural events together
- Opportunities to extend your musical skills & nurture song leading skills at additional workshops
There are recovering opera singers, consummate folkies and complete newbies year round. You can expect around 50 to 70 choir members in each session.
Channel your joy and love for your neighbour, worldgrief and political rage, through powerful resonant community that feeds the fire in your belly!
Mondays
7-9pm
King's Cross
