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Alex Somers

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Alex Somers
Somers at the Riceboy Sleeps launch, 2009
Born (1984-03-07) March 7, 1984 (age 40)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Education
Occupations
  • Visual artist
  • musician
Websitealexsomers.com

Alex Somers (born March 7, 1984) is an American visual artist and musician from Baltimore, Maryland, who attended Berklee College of Music and Listaháskóli Íslands. Somers lives and works in Los Angeles. Previously he ran a recording studio in downtown Reykjavík where he produced, engineered, and mixed since 2010.

He and his former partner Jónsi, with whom he split in 2019,[1] produce music and visual art under the name Jónsi & Alex. The pair have released an album and a picture book, both titled Riceboy Sleeps. Jónsi and Somers have also collaborated on Jónsi's solo project. Somers co-produced and played instruments on Jónsi's album Go. He then joined Jónsi in his five-piece live band, playing guitar and keyboards for the world tour in support of Go. Somers has produced and mixed a large number of records, including those of Sigur Rós, Jónsi, Julianna Barwick, Briana Marela, Death Vessel, Sin Fang,[2] and Pascal Pinon.

Somers has been vegan since 2004,[3] and a raw vegan since 2007.[4]

Sigur Rós

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Alex Somers has worked as co-producer/mixer/engineer on several Sigur Rós releases, including Valtari, Kveikur, iTunes Festival: London 2013 and Brennisteinn EP. Somers has also worked with the band on their artwork/designs. Most notably on their album Takk...,[5] which received Best Album Design at the 2006 Icelandic Music Awards.

In 2005–2006, Somers and Lukka Sigurðardóttir collaborated forming the design team "Toothfaeries", who made all of the official hand-made merchandise for Sigur Rós sold at the Takk... tour.[6]

Parachutes

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Parachutes was a band formed in 2003 as a duo consisting of Alex Somers and Scott Alario.[7] The band was named after a common term for dandelion seeds[broken anchor]. They recorded in Alex's kitchen and living room, and commonly experimented using household objects and toys as instruments. After two albums and an EP, Parachutes stopped making music in 2008.

Discography

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Studio albums

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  • Siblings (2021)
  • Siblings 2 (2021)

Collaborative albums

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Jónsi & Alex (with Jónsi)

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With Parachutes

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  • Parachutes (2003)[8]
  • Susy (2004)[9]
  • Tree Roots EP (2008)[10]

As producer

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As film composer

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Album artwork

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References

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  1. ^ Albertson, Jasmine (October 17, 2019). "Jónsi and Alex Somers on Waking Up Riceboy Sleeps, Trading Glaciers for Sunny Beaches and Working Together Post-Breakup". www.kexp.org. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
  2. ^ "saoing faoing, Two excited young men in the studio. Started". sinfang.tumblr.com. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
  3. ^ Josef Lincoln (February 17, 2017), "Why I'm Vegan" Podcast with Alex Somers, retrieved February 18, 2017
  4. ^ Peltonen, Sari (August 18, 2009). "Raw in Reykjavík". The Reykjavík Grapevine. grapevine.is. Archived from the original on October 19, 2013. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  5. ^ "eighteen seconds before sunrise – sigur rós news " 2006" January" 25". sigur-ros.co.uk. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved January 13, 2009.
  6. ^ "sigur rós - new t-shirts in the making". sigur rós. July 1, 2005. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
  7. ^ "Parachutes". Parachutes. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
  8. ^ "Parachutes, by Parachutes". Parachutes. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
  9. ^ "Susy, by Parachutes". Parachutes. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
  10. ^ "Tree Roots, by Parachutes". Parachutes. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
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