Latest writings
Here you’ll find links to my latest musings, media posts, musical adventures and so on. Recent pieces have been for EM Guide, Kaput Magazine and the Monheim Triennale festival.
All hail the musical bohemians
Link to my full round-up of 2025’s Monheim Triennale – just published on Kaput-Mag.com
Radio show: what went down at Monheim Triennale 2025
Self and Vivian Host co-helmed a Radio Rakete show at Monheim Triennale 2025…
Perhaps you’d like to stay at The Delavey?
Introducing ‘Storied’ - by The Delavey. Twelve stories set to music. Summer 2025.
Behind, around and somehow before the notes
Germany’s eclectic and inspiring Monheim Triennale 2025 is underway, bringing together a wide range of contemporary musicians to a little bend in the river Rhine…
YouMeBumBumTrain: six months in the world’s biggest doll’s house
What exactly is it like to be part of a show that everyone wants to experience but no one can talk about? 🧐
Library music: soundtracks to a strange if familiar world
What it’s like to make music whose exact purposes remain to be determined… yes, library music! 🎶
Too slow to disco… the tempo of seduction?*
Latest volume in the Too Slow to Disco series - Sunset Manifesto Vol 2 – drops summer 2025! I’ve been writing the sleeve notes for the series for the last decade…
Darius Jones - interview for Monheim Triennale ’25
I interviewed US composer and saxophonist Darius Jones for Monheim Triennale’s ‘Papers’ publication. A fascinating insight into his development as a musician and both his process and inspiration.
Christmas heartbreak on a garage forecourt mes chères…
A little seasonal ditty from Astrid & Alexander… inspired by a not-Christmas film.
Number goes up, meaning goes down…
Podcast advertising accidentally reveals the inane and hazardous madness of crypto.
Meet generation ‘generative’
Are the robots really coming for your job? Is the economy really becoming a push-button affair? An investigation of the state of generative AI hype and hope, summer 2024.
It (was) your hot girl summer
A little promo for a summery cut from our album… Well? What are you like, boy? ;-)
Surprise, then a sense of liberation - Monheim Festival 2024
Reflections on Monheim Festival 2024 - The Prequel. A wild week of musical experimentation and collaboration in a kink in the Rhine…
Everything is, as it turns out, romantic
In a world where pop stars increasingly seem to want safety, aristocracy or status, here comes BRAT.
Now…. where were we?
What happens when a cowboy wakes up in Paris? Another cut from the new Astrid & Alexander album… It’s ‘Now, where were we?’.
Album review in StadtRevue Cologne
A nice little review of our album [Romantic Music Plays Loudly] in Cologne’s city paper. Dec 2023.
The debut Astrid & Alexander LP is here
On the release of the debut album by nous, Astrid & Alexander! We present … [romantic music plays loudly].
A mad cinematic labour of love! Interview in Kaput
An interview around the release of Astrid & Alexander’s “Romantic Music Plays Loudly”… in Kaput magazine.
If the champagne could speak
Back in 2022, I had to endure the unfathomable horror of writing a poem about champagne for the Savoy’s Christmas campaign…
Magdalena Bay – Fully-Featured, Total Entertainment Scenario
Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin, aka Magdalena Bay, hail from Florida and LA somehow filtered through Tokyo’s Shibuya-kei hey day…