Album Notes

Phil Gadges (vocals, guitar) met up with Andrei Sebastian (bass, vocals) during a brawl at Flannery's in NYC, a bar known for its spontaneous fistfights and devotion to promoting local music. They decided to rock. Add Marko Djordjevic (drums, vocals) and "alien life" began. The band recently completed their first full length cd, "hope" with producer Tom McConnell of Brooklyn's own Culture Sound. The first single from the cd, "anybody jane?" was featured on New York's WXRK 92.3 FM, program "the buzz." The members of alien life understand that they are creating music in a bleak time for popular music. Despite prodding from record company insiders to move towards the current pop bonanza, they continue to play a music that reflects life, alternately harsh and foreboding and then miraculous and embracing, a formula not easily made "catchy." The band knows that this is an era of media saturation where it's difficult to be heard. They think of their recent cd as a message in a bottle, trying to reach other castaways in the sea of pop garbage. Since their formation in 1998, the trio have written songs which have appeared on a WB television show "Seventeen: Faces of Fall." Their music has also been used in the independent film "Six Months of Light, Six Months of Darkness." They composed the music for an Off-Broadway musical entitled "Snapshots." Music from their first independently released EP "devotion" was featured on numerous programs on the Oxygen Network.