Just about to be released is a very funny commercial for the New Seat Altea XL (family car). It’s too riské for terrestrial TV but the agency will use the as in Blue tooth and ‘viral campaigns’. I put a miltary character voice on and enjoyed the recording. Last week I voiced the new UK TV campaigns for Port Aventura and I’m continuing to work with Polaris world as well.
Joan Vinyals, Cristo Fontecilla and myself have just played a couple of gigs. The first at the Harlem Jazz club, Barcelona and the second at Osnabruck’s city hall as part of the Open Strings Festival. On Sunday I gave a songwriting seminar/ workshop as part of the Festival. There were musicians from the USA, Japan, Germany, Italy, France and Belgium. The audience were great in BCN and Germany- Thank you so much… and we’re really fired up about doing more live work. A very special thank you also to Peter Finger, Ingo and everyone at Wonderland Records/ Acoustic Music for being such great hosts. We had a great time.
I’m really pleased to announce that Dunja Averdung who runs German Booking Agency ‘Pool of Artists’ will be handling live performances in Germany from November 2006. Dunja an established artist in her own right also manages several other acts including the well known guitar virtuoso Jörg Nassler.
The open strings festival at the Osnabruck Townhall Germany has been confirmed for the 30 September with a songwriting work shop the following day. There’s also a concert at Barcelona’s Harlem Jazz club on the 27th September. Joan Vinyals and Cristo Fontecilla will be accompanying me for the gigs. Gaby Katz will also be doing live work in dates to be announced soon.
Uncut Diamond and other recordings are featured in this months’s Akustik Gitarre Magazine. Check out more info for the full article.
The news from Germany is that the album is now in the major stores and the press and radio campaign has started too. There’s also a big gig at the ‘Open Strings’ festival lined up for September and further promotion to be confirmed. Fingers crossed!
Recent Voice-Overs for British TV include a series of commercials and videos for Polaris World featuring golfing legend Jack Nicklaus, Port Aventura, Ultralase, and for the second year, Estoril tourist board, Portugal. On Spanish TV there’s a Movistar campaign with a cover of the song ‘Walking On Sunshine’sung by Alex.
Uncut Diamond gets another airing on BBC Radio Scotland tonight. So many thanks to all at the Iain Anderson show. A very big thank you also to Paul Finch who is getting things moving so well in the UK.
I’ve just finished a couple of days voicing a excellently produced new DVD covering the events at the World Games held in Duisburg, Germany this year. Over 5000 athletes and officials from over 100 nations took part and there were more than 500,000 visitors. Under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee the World Games comprises 32 International sports federations including Rugby, Squash and Karate. It was great to work with World Games Vice-President Roland Hilfiker once again. We’d previously met at a recording for an International Air show audio- visual. Check out the games at www.worldgames-iwga.org
Last week Spain’s Channel ‘Cuatro’ premiered a special documentary about the Paco Larrañaga murder case. The documentary is a Spanish/US co-production between Media Pro and Thoughtful Robot Inc. New York. Michael Collins is the documentary’s Producer. I narrated the English version to be broadcast in the Philippines and the US. The piece highlights the role of justice, religion and politics in the Philippines and presents Paco Larrañaga’s personal plea for justice from his prison cell where he has spent the last 8 years.
If you have a voiceover project that needs experience, quality and clarity, contact Alex today for a free, no-obligation project sample.
Alex will deliver an audio file of your script together with a quote so that you can decide if he is the right voice for your project.
Alex has a wide range of client work samples available for download.