::alexwise : bio::

Guitarist/singer/songwriter and Tower Records recording artist Alex Wise has developed a variety of musical projects. Front Porch marks his first solo release of all original material. With compositions that accommodate instrumentation as diverse as didgeridoo, mandolin, organ, and blues harp, Alex's acoustic swamp sound is a gumbo of folk, blues and jazz.

Formerly a media executive with stints at Warner Bros. and News Corp., Alex moved to San Francisco from Tokyo in 1998 to work in the internet industry and play music. Fluent in Japanese and a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts and Harvard, he later started his own consulting company that focused on interactive TV in Asia. Disenchanted with the rat race of the traditional business world, Alex gave it up to follow his passion for music.

Some pre-release reaction to Front Porch:
           "Alex Wise's Front Porch is the best album I've heard in a long time. I found each
           track to be better than the next. It's not easy to categorize his sound - all I know
           is that I currently have over 200 CDs piled up on my desk that I'm supposed to
           listen to and I haven't taken Front Porch out of my CD player for a week." 
                                                                                   - Gwen Riley 
                                                                                     SVP Music, Artisan Entertainment 
           "Wise’s admirable effort features blues-based acoustic folk with swampy overtones. 
           Many nice touches mark this carefully crafted collection." 
                                                                                     - Minor 7th Magazine
           "Wise's music taps into something suffused with soul and lyricism."                     
                                                                                      - Jeremy Hay
                                                                                       Santa Rosa Press-Democrat

           "The melange of dobros, bass, drums, didgeridoos, harmonica, and god-knows-what-else
            sounds like a slow moving swamp boogie by the Dead circa 1969. The music gestates at 
            a languid rate, sounding remarkably relaxed (and) spacious...""                     
                                                                                      - Jambands.com