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Alex Somers

American visual artist and musician

Summary

American visual artist and musician

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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, 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, and Pascal Pinon.

Somers has been vegan since 2004, and a raw vegan since 2007.

Sigur Rós

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..., which received Best Album Design at the 2006 Icelandic Music Awards.

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

Parachutes

Parachutes was a band formed in 2003 as a duo consisting of Alex Somers and Scott Alario. The band was named after a common term for dandelion seeds. 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

Studio albums

Siblings (2021)
Siblings 2 (2021)

Collaborative albums

[[Jónsi & Alex]] (with [[Jónsi]])

Riceboy Sleeps (2009)
All Animals (2009)
Lost & Found (2019)

With Parachutes

Parachutes (2003)
Susy (2004)
Tree Roots EP (2008)

As producer

Rökkurró – Í Annan Heim (2010)
Jónsi – Go (2010)
Sigur Rós – Valtari (2012)
Julianna Barwick – Nepenthe (2013)
Sigur Rós – Kveikur (2013)
Pascal Pinon – Twosomeness (2013)
Sin Fang – Flowers (2013)
Hymnalya – Hymns (2013)
Tom Gallo – Continuation Day EP (2013)
Death Vessel – Island Intervals (2014)
Briana Marela – All Around Us (2015)
Veroníque Vaka – Erlendis (2015)
Gordi – Clever Disguise EP (2016)
Sin Fang – Spaceland (2016)
Sound Of Ceres – The Twin (2017)
Gordi – Reservoir (2017)
A. G. Cook – 7G (2020)
Bob Dylan – Shadow Kingdom: The Early Songs of Bob Dylan (2021)
Hyd – Clearing (2022)
William Tyler – Time Indefinite (2025)

As film composer

We Bought a Zoo (2011) (co-produced soundtrack with composer Jónsi)
Manhattan (2014) (TV series, with Jónsi, Zoë Keating & Jeff Russo)
Aloha (2015) (with Jónsi)
Captain Fantastic (2016)
Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)
Black Mirror: Hang the DJ (2017) (TV series, one episode)
Hale Country This Morning, This Evening (2018) (with Scott Alario & Forest Kelley)
Honey Boy (2019)
Miss Americana (2020)
Charm City Kings (2020)
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth (2020) (Animated short film)
Audrey (2020)
Together Together (2021)
Alone Together (2022)
Fresh (2022)
Causeway (2022)
Nickel Boys (2024) (with Scott Alario)
Overcompensating (2025) (TV series)
Rental Family (2025) (with Jónsi)
Holland (2025)

Album artwork

Sigur Rós - Takk
Sigur Rós - Glósoli
Sigur Rós - Hoppípolla
Sigur Rós - Saeglópur
Helgi Hrafn Jónsson - For the Rest of My Childhood
Sismo - Le Magica Exists
Japanese Compilations 1,2 & 3
Jónsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps
Jónsi & Alex - All Animals
Jónsi & Alex - Rain Down My Favorite Songs
Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow
Leif Vollebekk - North Americana

References

Albertson, Jasmine. (October 17, 2019). "Jónsi and Alex Somers on Waking Up Riceboy Sleeps, Trading Glaciers for Sunny Beaches and Working Together Post-Breakup".
"saoing faoing, Two excited young men in the studio. Started". sinfang.tumblr.com.
Josef Lincoln. (February 17, 2017). ""Why I'm Vegan" Podcast with Alex Somers".
Peltonen, Sari. (August 18, 2009). "Raw in Reykjavík". grapevine.is.
"eighteen seconds before sunrise – sigur rós news " 2006" January" 25". sigur-ros.co.uk.
(July 1, 2005). "sigur rós - new t-shirts in the making". sigur rós.
"Parachutes".
"Parachutes, by Parachutes".
"Susy, by Parachutes".
"Tree Roots, by Parachutes".

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