Listen: Alexander’s Festival Hall Gets Remixed By Simon Bookish

Alexander’s Festival Hall premiered his new single ‘Upturned’ on DIY last week, and now has returned, complete with a handful of remixes.

Leading the pack on the mixing front is Simon Bookish, who has collaborated with everyone from Patrick Wolf to Franz Ferdinand, alongside the likes of Zachary Gray, Paris Motel and Vatican Cellars

To hear the remixes, head over to Snipe, where it premiered today. Alternatively, listen below.

Behind the scenes the man behind Alexander’s Festival Hall, Alexander Mayor, has been well known among London’s electronic circles - previously appearing in Kompakt band Baxendale and working as a producer working with the likes of Piney Gir.

But here he appears in a new guise and right under the limelight for the very first time. Alexander’s Festival Hall’s sound is, in the artist’s own words, ‘romantronica’. A sub-genre with the population of one, it appears.

This, his first single entitled ‘Upturned’, is due out 9th April. The song follows the trend of classically-trained electronic musician emerging right now, with it’s cleverly understated progression and mix of the traditional and the new.

Meanwhile his debut release, the wonderfully named ‘Not A Dry Eye In London’, is out soon. It’s comprised of, again in Alexander’s words, ‘13 songs that chart the complexities of love in cities to the sound of broken nightclub-tinged balladry.

‘Upturned’ is available digitally via State51/MelodicalTrax on 9th April.