Alex Paxton (*1990 in Manchester) studied jazz and composition at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music in London. He is present throughout Europe as a composer and performs in various formations as a jazz trombonist and improvisation artist. He has already released three critically acclaimed albums, with two more to follow this year. His honours include the Ivor Novello Composer Award, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Composition Prize, the Hindemith Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Claussen Simon Composition Prize and the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize. Alex’s manifest is »make magic sound stuff«, to make sound that is as sensuous as possible in every moment.

‘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 …’