June 2008. More than 52 episodes of Zoomix have now been recorded at International Sound Studios with Alex Narrating.
Have now completed narrating half the series Zoomix for Neptuno films. It's a beautifully made production about animals for pre school children and I've have really enjoyed the recordings at International Sound Studios in Barcelona. Neptuno films have come to an agreement with Disney Latin America for the series there.

May/ June Cromasoma begins production of Asha series
The production company Cromasoma well known for their 'Triplets' series have begun dubbing the new 52 episode series 'Asha'. Based on the life of Asha Miró who came to Barcelona as a small girl from India, the story follows the adventures of Asha and her pals in the Mediteranean City. Sarah Davison is directing the dubbing and I'm playing the part Asha's father. Coordinating the production is Dani Zacarias.

June 2008. Acoustic Music/ Rough Trade release Green To Blue on Friday the 13th with a radio, press and retail campaign.
'Green to Blue', my new album is officially released in Germany on June 13th (Friday hopefully not unlucky!!) with a campaign that includes Radio, Press and retail promotion. We are currently organizing some concerts for later in the year. Many thanks to Peter Finger and everyone at Acoustic Music Records/Rough Trade for the work you have put in and your faith in the album!!

June 2008. Alex and Emilio Alquezar to produce songs for the soundtrack to the 'Flying Heroes' animated feature.
Have been commissioned by Manel Gil the composer of the Soundtrack to produce four songs including the title track to the animated feature co produced by Accio/TVE and TV3 and directed by Miquel Pujol. The film has been 5 years in production (I think the budget is around 7 million euros) and the Soundtrack is being recorded with the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra in July. Great to work again with Emilio Alquézar, my mentor from the Duy Sonido days. The songs are taking shape and we're looking for a great singer for the title track.

May 2008. Warner Tales produce and record 4 childrens songs for recording studio Takemaker.
Got together with Carles Mateu and Pito Costa my partners at Warner Tales to record four songs for Takemaker studios including a piano ballad version that I sang of the song 'I can see a rainbow' song. I'd never realized what a beautiful melody it had! As usual it was great working together and lunch at Cayo Largo in Badalona was fantastic!!

May 2008. New track 'Change the World' is put on hold by Sony/ATV publishing in North America while Casanova sung by Gisela falters at Eurovision.
Good news from the US is that a song 'Change the world' that I co-wrote with Jordi Cubino for Sony/ATV has been put on hold in the States by Sony. It was originally aimed as an Olympic pitch for China 2008. More news as and when the artist performing the song is confirmed. Back to Europe, and Gisela did a great job of performing Casanova at the Eurovision contest in Belgrade. She didn't make it through to the final but the BBC presenter during the semi final said the song was her favourite. Casanova which I adapted into English is now being released on a number of compilations including the official Eurovision album.

May/June 2008. Voice work includes a TV ad for San Miguel beer and corporate work for Adidas, Pioneer, Honda and Danone
Other recent spoken voice recordings include Vodafone, Torres wines, several audio museum guides and megaphone anouncements for the F1 race at the Montmelo track which I went to with my son. In May also sang the title track to Christmas Animated film Santa vs Claus for a production company in Madrid.

29 March 2008. Alex interviewed by David Escamilla for Catalunya Radio's Saturday magazine 'El Suplement'.
Thank you to David Escamilla for our interview and his subsequent piece for Catalunya Radio's Saturday magazine 'El Suplement'. Apparently it's the audience leader with 300,000 listeners to the programme and thanks to David's sensitive post -production it sounded much better than I could have hoped for! My spoken Catalan was (and is)still pretty dodgy-so apologies for that!

1 March 2008. Alex narrates brand new series Zoomix produced by Neptuno films at International Sound Studios.
Really pleased as I've been asked to narrate the new 104 x 3 minute episode animated pre school series about animals Zoomix for Neptuno films. We've done around 15 episodes so far and on the 2 April we record the next batch of 10 episodes at top dubbing studio -International Sound Studio, Barcelona. The series is beautifully made and in each episode we discover a diferent animal. It is Directed by Josep Viciana.

March 2008. Cromasoma Films contact Alex to direct the dubbing for new series 'Lila' and 'Asha'.
We've just dubbed the first episode of 'Lila' produced by Cromosoma Films and with a screen play by top London writer Rachel Murrell whose work includes 'The little Princess' and 'Bob the Builder'. Rachel came to the sessions last week and along side Dani Zacarias and Jordi from Cromasoma we had a fun marathon one day recording session. Looking forward to the challenge of directing!! Asha goes into production from May. With Mipcom coming up in Cannes have also been involved in several other pilots for Cavin Cooper Productions among others.

28 March 2008. Alex puts his voice to TV campaigns for Smint, Polti and Polaris World.
Recent voice work includes TV ads for Polaris World (UK), Polti(Italy) and Smint(Spain) with corporate pieces for Seat, Volkswagen, The Egyptian Tourist Board, Teka (ovens) Torres (wine) and a series of audioguides for six major European cities. Other guides included the Toy Museum and Jewish Museum of Gerona with Sarah Davison.

February 2008. Alex puts his voice to the documentary 'The Man who Unfolded a Thousand Hearts' for Media Pro
In February I voiced the thoughts of renowned Doctor, Paco Torrent Guasp in the documentary about his life for Media Pro. Molly Malcolm narrated the documentary. Paco Torrent Guasp, a family doctor in a coastal village in Spain, toiled alone during 20 years until he found the answer to one of medicines biggest questions: the heart is a single muscular band folded over itself in a helical pattern. His discovery is a medical revolution: doctors have now a map that allows them to understand what goes on when a heart fails. However, Paco had to fight for another 20 years to see his work recognized.

15 Jan. 2008. Acoustic Music Records and Rough Trade to release 'Green To Blue' in Germany.
Great News....Just got an email from Peter Finger MD of Acoustic Music Records in Germany to say they'd like to take on the album for Germany/ N. Europe with distribution via Rough Trade. I'm really pleased!!

January 10 2008. Alex voices new UK television campaign featuring Bob Dylan for the ExpoZaragoza 2008
I've just recorded the UK voice over for the Expo 2008 in Zaragoza. The campaign features Bob Dylan with a his specially recorded version of 'A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall' which links in to the Expo's main theme of 'Water and sustainable development.

January 2008. Green To Blue is available Now.
My new album Green To Blue has been pressed. It's three years since 'Uncut Diamond' and great to have finally finished things. I think it's my most personal CD to date and I really hope you like it too. Many thanks to all of you who have been involved and/or have bought the CD. Green To Blue is currently available at Cdbaby.com, itunes and various stores in Spain and the UK. I'll keep you informed about live dates etc.

Jan 14 2008. Casanova sung by Gisela is confirmed as Andorra's Eurovision bid
The song 'Casanova' composed by Jordi Cubino with a lyric I adapted into English, has been chosen as the Eurovision entry for Andorra. It was fun working with Jordi in the studio with Gisela and the song is very very catchy - so fingers crossed!!The English version of the song has been chosen for the competition.

28 December 2007. Two reviews from the November concert in the UK
Here are a couple of reviews for the Gig Joan, Cristo and myself played at 'the Space' in my hometown of Stroud. It was a sell out and wonderful to see so many friends and familiar faces- wouldn't have missed it for the world. Having just been to the UK for Christmas I also dug up my very first review from the very same paper 'The Stroud News and Journal' which was probably around 1976/77!!!

Jan 2008. Donkey Xote soundtrack is out on Filmax Music with three songs sung by Alex
The Donkey Xote soundtrack is now available. I sung three covers for the feature. The Clash's 'I fought the Law', John Barry's 'Born Free' and 'Games People Play' by James South. I had the opportunity to work with two wonderful singers on the Soundtrack. Firstly, Marta Sanchez who sung Jordi Cubino's theme tune 'One and Only' (I adapted the song into English for Sony/ATV Music)and also Elizabeth Gray a great American singer based in Madrid.

December 2008. Recent voice work including documentaries, international ads and audioguides.
Recent recordings include voice overs ads for the company Polti for Italian and Spanish TV. Narrating the TV3 documentary 'Colors' with Ellen Gould. Audio guides for the Museum of Exhile in La Jonquera Spain, the Miró Foundation and the museum of Lugo, Galicia and corporate work including Honda, Seat, Matutano etc.

January 3 2008 . Two TV ads for Planeta go out with music composed and produced by Warner Tales.
Pito Costa, Carles Mateu and myself have just got together to record two Planeta ads for our client the production company El Film Del Mundo. As always it was great to work together.

20 November 2007. Alex sings a cover of 'Every Breath You Take' for a La Caixa campaign
Have just sung a version of the Police's 'Every Breath You Take' for a TV and radio campaign for Spanish bank La Caixa. It was a BSO production by Chupi and Dani and as always it was great to work together. Chupi has also played Hammond, a great Hohner Funky Clav and Fender Rhodes on quite a few tracks of my new Album.

25 October. UK concert next Saturday. Mixing the New CD 'Green To Blue' the following week at Auhra Studios, and Mastering at Sterling Sound New York.
Joan Vinyals, Cris fontecilla and myself are getting set for a gig in my home town of Stroud. The concert starts at 8pm at The Space landsdown road, Stroud and tickets are still (I think)available at kanes Records and the Stroud Subscription Rooms. Can't wait to see everyone!!Really looking forward to it!Thank you to Steve Wilce and Andy Bateman for your help setting things up!!!

October 10. Spanish singing star Marta Sanchez records 'One and Only' for the Soundtrack to Filmax's 'Donkey Xote'. Alex also sings two further tracks for the feature.
Spent a day in the studio with Spanish Singing Star Marta Sanchez as she sang the English version of 'One and Only' which I co-wrote with songwriter/producer Jordi Cubino. I subsequently recorded two further lead vocal tracks for the Soundtrack including a cover of the Clash's 'I fought the Law' at Auhra Studios with Jordi producing. Marta has a fantastic voice and works very very hard.

October. Recent Voice work includes UK Radio and TV ads for ClickAir, Dareway and Polaris World. Corporate work for Novartis, Nissan and BMW.

October 2007.Alex puts his voice to the opening presentation and inaugeration of the Sitges Film festival
I put some narrative voices for a really nicely made AV presentation for the inaugeration ceremony at the Sitges Film Festival.

July2007. Alex narrates the documentaries 'Wings Over Antarctica and 'Who Killed Walter Benjamin' for Mediapro and Mediaanimacion.
Enjoyed working on these two documentaries. One on the tragic death of the Jewish Philosopher Walter Benjamin as he fled from Nazis. The film was co-produced by the Goethe Institut and the European Association for Jewish Culture. 'Wings Over The Antarctic'- a Media Pro production follows the adventures of parachutists who have developed 'wings' and their world record breaking jump/flight.

20 October. New Audio guides for the Miró foundation and the Venecian art exhibition at Barcelona´s La Pedrera voiced by Alex and Sarah Davison.

October 25. Good News as 'Hey You' composed and written by Alex, Carles Mateu and Pito Costa is chosen for a TV campaign for Catalonia's Generalitat.
It's great when a song written a while back gets a new lease of life(8 years back in this case!) . We've licensed the song for use in a TV campaign for the Generalitat of Catalonia. Originally recorded for WestOne a group we were working with in 1999. They scored a hit with another of our songs 'let Me Into Your Heart' Blanco y Negro records -subsequently remixed by Toni & Xasci Ten it went into the Spanish Chart.

POOL OF ARTISTS now booking Alex Warner Trio for Germany.Tel: 00 49 (0351) 848 70 85
Dunja Averdung is booking dates for the trio In Germany(Joan Vinyals, Cristo Fontecilla and myself)We look forward to returning again soon. Dunja.Averdung@gmx.de For further contact details click on info

June 2007. Recent Singing work includes TV commercials for Blanc pescador wine
Recent singing work has included the lead voice on TV ads for Blanc Pescador white wine (from Northern Spain) and Vino Barbadillo from Andalucia in the South and backing vocals for a Nescafe campaign.

June 2007. Voice Overs for International TV commercials include Granini Fruit Juice, Durex and Polaris World.
International ads I've voiced recently include : Granini for Finnish TV, Durex for some Arab countries and Polaris world for UK television.

June 2007. Work continues on New Album and live dates for UK confirmed for November
Things are going well with the album. It's a slow process but I think the results will be good. Currently tracking vocals /percussion. And recording the final touches from Joan Vinyals, Cris Fontecilla, Gaby, Joe and Roger. Cece Giannotti will hopefully be recording some Dobro too.

June. Recording and mixing Guateque Town live show.
Along with Jim Phillips have just recorded Sarah and Mary Davison's live show 'Guateque Town' at the live venue El Monasterio- great fun to do and the recording has captured the spirit of the performance.

June 2007.Recent corporate voice overs include Volkswagen, Ambipur, Siemens, Revlon, Seat, Danone and Nescafe

20/3/ 2007. Recent TV ads sung by Alex include a cover of 'Sunny ' for Sunbites and Joe Cocker's'You're so Beautiful' for the 'Comunidad de Madrid'
Recent TV ads include singing a cover of 70's hit 'Sunny (one so true)' for BSO studios for a 'Sunbites'campaign and a cover of Joe Cocker's 'You're so beautiful' recorded via ISDN connection with Madrid for the Madrid department of health. A couple of weeks ago sung a new station ID jingle for Radio Marca composed and produced by old Gringos mate Josep Sanou.

26 March 2007. Good Luck to the Barcelona bid for the World Athletics Championships 2013.
Last week I narrated three DVDs for Barcelona's pitch for the World Athletics Championships 2013. Yesterday a 27 person team including BCN's Mayor Jordi Hereu and Judith Mascó arrived in Mombassa, Kenya for presentation of the 55 Million Euro bid. They are up against Moscow and Brisbane. 40 minutes to present their case including the three videos and 20 minutes question and answer afterwards. The results will be known tomorrow so fingers crossed!!Good Luck....

Feb & March 2007. Voice overs include TV commercials for Megablocs in the UK and Ireland and corporate pieces for Alfa Romeo, Movistar, Nestle and Danone.
In addition to the recordings above have just completed narrating an hour long documentary co produced by TV3 and AVVIDEO Spain titled 'L'altre Barcelona. (The other Barcelona) and a piece for the Miró Foundation in Barcelona.

February/ March 2007. Recording begins on new album at Auhra Studios Barcelona. Songs produced by Joan Vinyals, Cris Fontecilla and Alex.
We've been tracking guitars and vocals after a week recording at Auhra studios with Mauri Tonelli engineering. The studio band includes Joan Vinyals, Cris Fontecilla, Gaby Katz, with a rythm section comprising Roger Blavia and Joe Lewis. Really pleased with the results so far so thank you to all of you.

25 February 2007. Singing, co-writing and recordings for Sony Music with hit producer Jordi Cubino.
Have been working with Jordi Cubino at Auhra studios, Barcelona on some new songs for Sony Music that include singing the main vocals on a track for Filmax's 'Donkey Hote' and backup vocals on several other Sony songs.

Febuary 2007. Warner Tales produce music for Freixenet Cava DVDs and 'Flic N Lic' TV Commercials.
Over the last couple of months we've been busy with a number of music to picture commissions. Have just completed the music for two videos for Freixenet, an International ad for 'Flic N Lic' candy and a series of traditional Spanish childrens songs for a DVD project.

February 15 2007. Dubbing work continues on French cartoon series 'Phantom Spirit' & Little King Macius and animated features 'Ratoncito Perez' and 'Christopher Tremendous'
Dubbing seems to have hotted up over the last few months. Have been working with Nick Chapman and Josh Zamrycki at Sonilab on the two TV series and dubbed a Rat character and sung two songs including the closing theme to Filmax's'Ratoncito Perez' directed by Jim Philips. Also enjoyed dubbing the king in 'Cristopher Tremendous' animated feature at Audioprojects studios.

28 December. The Warner Tales team produce the soundtracks for two Planeta Agostini TV commercials.
In late December, Pito Costa, Carles Mateu and myself got together to compose and produce two TV ads for Planeta Agostini's 'Superheroes' collection for our client the production company El Film Del Mundo . We had fun recording as always and the aprés session/ Christmas Paella at Cayo Largo in Badalona was spectacular!!

23 December 2006. Dubbing begins on animated series 'little King Macius' with Joshua Zamrycki directing.
Just before Christmas we dubbed the first 4 episodes of cartoon series 'Little King Macius' directed by Josh Zamrycki at Sonilab Studios and produced by French Animation company Ellipsanime (part of the Universal group) - The series follows the adventures of the little king and his pals who try to foil the plans of the evil General (my character). Had a great time in the studio and really looking forward to the next 22 episodes....Here are a couple of stills from the series including my character.

22 December 2006. Recent recording sessions for Sony Music release featuring hit producer/writer Jordi Cubino and Spanish recording star Gisela.
Have just adapted a new track for Sony Music featuring Spanish Singer Gisela and written by hit producer Jordi Cubino. The recording went really well at Auhra studios in Barcelona with Mauri Tonelli engineering. A very very catchy song sung by a great Singer- I think it's going to do well!!Jordi's recent compositions include the Worldcup theme sung by Toni Braxton and IL Divo and David Bisbal's 'Corazon Latino'.

December 2006. Recent dubbing credits include animated feature 'Scruff' for D'Ocon and a TV movie for Filmax 'A Xmas Tale'
Enjoyed dubbing a little cameo as the mad professor in 'A Xmas Tale' for Filmax's directed by Jim Phillips and a few of the supporting characters in a new 'Scruff' (Rovello) animated feature for D'Ocon films directed by Nick Chapman.

10 December 2006 .New recordings with Operacion Triomfo's Tessa for Filmax Music
Have begun recording with producer Jordi Cubino for the soundtrack to the animated movie 'Donkey Hote' due for release at Christmas 2007. The first track was a Pat Benatar cover 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot' for the movie's trailer sung by Tessa from Spain´s Operacion Triumfo (Spain's version of the X factor)and there are more songs on the way. I'm doing some singing/ lyric adaptation and assisting Jordi in the studio too.

24 October 2006 Dunja Averdung and German agency 'Pool of artists' to handle bookings and live performances in Germany.
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. She can be reached on Tel: (0351) 848 70 85 or (0351) 206 39 32 Fax: (0351) 848 70 85 or Email. dunja.averdung@gmx.de

12 October 2006 Thank you to everyone who came to the concerts in Barcelona and Osnabrück, Germany.
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.

1 October 2006. Recent voice overs for TV Ad campaigns for Seat, Port Aventura and Polaris World.
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.

25 July 2006. New World Games campaigns voiced by Alex
Following a series of promotional recordings over the last few years, I've been asked by World Games Vice- President Roland Hilfiker to be further involved voicing the World Games audiovisual/TV productions both in the run up to, and during the actual games themselves in Kaohsiung City in Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)in 2009. Under the umbrella of the International Olymic committee, the games feature 30 + plus sports including Karate, Squash and Rugby and over 3000 athletes. Over 500,000 people attended last years games in Duisburg Germany. I'm looking forward to the challenge!

Alex sings on the new Playstation 3 TV campaign featuring Fernando Alonso
Have just sung the solo voice on the new Playstation 3 ad 'Formula 1' featuring Fernando Alonso. The title of the Ad is 'Shadow' and it'll be on air soon. Had a great time recording it with Xupi and Dani from BSO studios.When I get a copy will post it online.

July 20 2006 .Feature Article in Akustik Gitarre Magazine
Uncut Diamond and other recordings are featured in this months's Akustik Gitarre Magazine. Check out more info for the full article.

25 July 2006 Gigs in Germany and Spain for September
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.

5 April 2006. TV campaign featuring Jack Nicklaus for Polaris World among recent UK commercials voiced by Alex.
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.

18 April 2006 . Wonderland / Rough Trade Records release Uncut Diamond in Germany
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!

9 February 2006. Uncut Diamond tonight on BBC Radio Scotland
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. Here's a link to the play list that includes tracks by Neil Young, Damien Rice, Bonnie Raitt and James Taylor. http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/radioscotland/view/playlist.shtml?prog=iain&extra=thu&popup=yes

15 December 2005. Telefonica ad MP3
Here's an MP3 file for the chirpy Telefonica TV Ad I sung a few weeks back. The music is by Ramon Martinez and Mai. We had great fun recording it.

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14 December 2005. Paco Larrañaga documentary narration.
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.

3 December 2005. International World Games DVD narration
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

30 November. Match For Peace follow-up
Last night we went to the match and were surprised to see Former James Bond star Sean Connery at the Nou Camp seen here along side Luis Bassat and the BCN President Joan Laporta. Shimon Peres was also present at the game. They showed the Ad I'd voiced on the big screen and Sam and his mate Emilio enjoyed seeing Ronaldinho and E'to in real life!!!2-1 to Barça and a win for peace!

28 November 2005 Match For Peace
Tomorrow evening, FC Barcelona will play a team comprising Israeli and Palestinian players in a fund-raising game aimed at supporting efforts at peace between the countries. The "Match for Peace" will be held at Camp Nou stadium on Nov. 29, a day after the end of the summit in Barcelona between European Union heads of state and leaders of Mediterranean countries. I voiced the English version of the TV Ad for the the agency Bassat, Ogilvy and the production company Errecerre. It's a really nice ad so I'll try to see if I can get a downloadable copy online soon -Tomorrow is also my son Sam's Birthday and he'll be coming with me to Nou Camp. His first time at a football match.

21 November 2005. Uncut Diamond to be released in Germany
Thanks to Acoustic Music Records founder and label boss Peter Finger, Uncut Diamond is going to be released in Germany on his brand new Wonderland Records label with distribution via Rough Trade (Zomba) from January/Feb 2006. I'm really excited about seeing the response from Radio to the album and also the possibility of doing some dates in Germany in the new year. In addition to running the record company Peter is an outstanding international Composer,Producer and Guitarist and has been a key figure in promoting quality acoustic music in Germany. www.acoustic-music.de

20 November, new TV ads for Christmas
Recent voice-overs range from a commercial for US television featuring Antonio Banderas and his new fragrance (glamorous!) A South African toilet duck commercial (not quite so glamourous) and a Christmas ad for Scalextric (SCX) for the UK TV (somewhere in between!) On the TV music side I've just sung an commercial for Telefonica for Spain and there's a Crazy Bones sweet ad on British TV.

16 October: Gisaku premiers at Sitges Film Festival
Tonight Filmax's new animated feature Gisaku opens at the Melia Auditorium, Sitges. The Film directed by Baltasar Pedrosa, produced by Julio Fernandez and with a soundtrack by Oscar Araujo is a leading contender for the European Animation award. I was lucky to have been involved in the English language version directed by Jim Phillips in which I dubbed one of the main characters Yohei. It was a pleasure to work with Baltasar and Jim and fingers crossed the feature does really well. Also at the festival are Jodie Foster to collect a lifetime achievement award, Quentin Tarantino promoting his new film 'Hostel', and Speilberg's 'Jaws' special effects team to pick up the Special effects prize.

Pi-2 Gigs supporting Fish in Tiana
Over the summer I did a couple of gigs singing with PI-2. The first presenting their new album 'The endless journey'in Badalona and the second along side Fish and German band RPWL in Tiana to over 500 people. It was great to get back on the stage again! Here are a couple of photos from the gigs.

August 2005. New Ventura Pons film soundtrack with a song by Carles Cases and Alex Warner
Alex and Carles Cases have co written a song for the new Ventura Pons film, 'Wounded Animals'. Recording took place at Classic and New studios Barcelona and was sung by Miquel Planas. The screenplay, written by the catalan director is based in three stories from the book Sad Animals by Jordi Puntí. The leading actors include Jose Coronado, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Cecilia Rossetto, Marc Cartes, Cristina Plazas, Patricia Arredondo and Gerardo Zamora and Carles Cases composed the Soundtrack.

July 2005. Alex narrates a series of public service announcements for the United Nations featuring celebrities Richard Gere and Michael Douglas.
A year ago I was contacted by the Target production Company to voice an International TV and Radio campaign for the United Nations Millenium Goals 'Six Billion Voices' initiative. In July this year I narrated a new UN video 'Only With Your Voice' featuring the contributions of among others Richard Gere, Youssou N'Dour, Michael Douglas, Carlinhos Brown, Lenny Kravitz , Jane Goodall, Shakira, Paz Vega, VJ Armritaj and the Nobel Laureate Dr Elie Wiesel. If you'd like to download the 'Six Billion Voices' ad and find out more about this important United Nations campaign you can go to the United Nations website. http://www.millenniumcampaign.org/site/pp.asp?c=grKVL2NLE&b=138312

Flying Heroes wins top prize at World Animation Festival Houston
I had a new experience over the Summer when asked to direct the dubbing for a new animated feature film 'Flying Heroes'written and directed by Accio Films founder Miquel Pujol. The Spanish-Irish co-production has the top prize for 'Work In Progress' at the Houston Festival and will be in the Cinemas in around a year from now. Work is now beginning on the musical soundtrack with a score by the Quadrophenia production team.

September 14, 2005 Japan. La Fura dels Baus Metamorphosis opens with Uncut Diamond in the soundtrack
Uncut Diamond has been chosen to accompany the final scenes and credits of Fura dels Baus new production of Kafka's Metamorphosis directed by Javier Daulte. It opens in Japan this week for the Expo 2005 going on to the UK, Italy and Austria and returns for Barcelona's Grec Festival in Summer 2006. The electronic soundtrack was composed by Josep Sanou.

12 September 2005 Uncut Diamond sales in more than 10 countries
I'm pleased and surprised to say that the album has now sold in more than 10 countries, with the majority of sales coming from the US. While the numbers concerned are pretty small and I'm not giving up the day job yet!! , bearing in mind there's been almost no promotion, it's been really heartening. So thanks for your support. We're currently negotiating with a great German label for a November release. Watch this space.