Alex Paxton, born in Manchester in 1990, is a composer
and improvising-trombonist. He studied jazz and
composition in London at the Royal Academy of Music
and the Royal College of Music. Awards include an
Ivor Novello Composer Award and the Royal Philharmonic
Society Composition Prize. His music has been
released on labels including Listenpony and Everest
Records, and, most recently, “Music for Bosch People”
on Birmingham Record Company/NMC Recordings.
Alex describes his music “like
minimal but loads
more
notes like
video-games but with more song like
jazz
but much more
gay like old music but more current
like
yummy sweet but more
stick like
paint but more
scratch like
tapestry but
filthily like
prayer but more
loud like
loud groove and more
rude like
fingers
and
faces too but somehow more
smelly like
smelly
things cooking with more
chew and change like
louder prayers that
groove with like
stinking-hotpink
in poo-brown but even more
desperate-like than
that like
drums and
Dream Musics …”
Upcoming projects include new commissions for
Explore Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, Riot Ensemble,
and two portrait albums: “ilolli-pop” on nonclassical
in October 2022 and “Happy Music for Orchestra” on
Delphian in 2023.
alexpaxtonmusic.com
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