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Born Alexander Gordon de Menthon in December 1981, Cambridge, UK. He moved with his parents to South East London at the age of 2 where he spent his formative years growing up in Woolwich, South East London. His mother, Anne de Menthon, was the lovechild of a French Count and a Canadian cabaret singer. Alexander's family got word from the French side of the family that Count de Menthon had passed away, and unexpectedly in his last will and testament acknowledged that Anne was, in fact, his daughter and left her gifts of extravagant French artefacts, antique furniture and money. To her son, Alexander he left an original Rembrandt print. Alexander had been experimenting with music, bands and writing songs for a few years and was becoming more and more serious. He was falling in love with music & soaked up as much as possible. Inspired by everyone from Captain Beefheart to Joni Mitchell, Velvet Underground to Curtis Mayfield. Around this time his beloved Nan passed away leaving Alexander devastated. From that moment on, he took on her maiden name, 'Wolfe' and spent the next years writing, and sculpting his sound and future as an artist. Alexander decided to record an album. He sold the only thing of value that he owned, the Rembrandt print, to fund buying a home studio set up, a mic, a laptop etc... He managed to beg, steal & borrow some studio time to put down the drums with a friend called Steve Pilgrim, formally of Liverpool band The Stands, now playing with Paul Weller & ex-La John Power. All the other instruments (except the strings) were played & recorded by Alexander in various places, from attics in New Cross, to basements in Brick Lane. Everybody who worked on the record did it for the love of the music or a bottle of rum, from the string players to the engineers. The songs are an eclectic mix, and from the twisted waltz opener 'Prague Song', through the white knuckle epic punk of 'Movement' to the hushed heartbreaking track 'Stuck Under September'. It's clear that this is something special, with more in common with Nick Drake, Tom Waits and Neil Young than any of today's current crop of singer songwriters.

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2. spazzypaddy

   okish potential

3. lordgokal

   should have put up Stuck in September, silly man.

4. Tom A

   Now this is real music. The first thing that really struck me was the vocals and I was instantly reminded of Coldplay, no bad feat at all. As the song progresses it builds nicely with electric guitar shadowing the acoustic nicely and then it breaks into the chorus which just gets you swaying your head before it takes you straight back down with some realy nice strings and then back into the lovely harmonica intro. The song progresses much along the same lines for the next verse and chorus untill a screaming (but not over the top) guitar solo comes in, bringing even more passion to the music and which just nicely takes the song along to the fade out ending. All in all this is a verry good song and one which I wish there could be more of the same out there in the music business. Its a song which finishes leaving you wanting to listen again and just keep on listening. Well worth the five stars I have given it...I just wish I could vote more than once.

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