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Alex Coffey
Relocating to Tokyo two years ago, primarily because everyone else was going to London, Alex has forged a career for herself in publishing and the arts. Singing down a twisted copper line to the gorgeous likes of little Japanese kiddies for Disney while making brief and insignificant appearances in Japanese music video clips and CMs, Alex continued to feel overwhelmed by the stimuli and consumed by the culture. The blonde blue eyed gaijin was not only having a prickly time trying to communicate but to also go unnoticed.
The attraction of adventure is anonymity. To extend ourselves while no one is watching-- there is nothing mysterious about boarding a crowded train and being watched like a television.
Amongst the foreign community in Tokyo we refer to it as our "altitude training" and in this it is established, a sense of duty-- to our own culture, to our new culture, is to create.
Collaborating with local music moniker, Kinlay www.eastpointproduction.net, The Tokyo Sessions were accidentally hatched one Tuesday evening at an open mic night in Shibuya. Her "training," it would seem, had paid off.
Alex is pretty well much on her own genre and gender wise in Japan, so she divides her time between nihon and Australia-- Currently recording an debut album while working on the third draft of a memoir-- I Should Be So 'Rucky, because according to an Amharic proverb, "To lie about a far away country is easy."
Triple J has so generously defined her music as neo-folk with influences ranging from Leonard Cohen, Ani DiFranco to Lou Reed. Alex say's ultimately she is a story teller who picked up a guitar at 15 and started writing about what she could see. Little has changed.
While still being spotted performing random acts on a guitar in public and occasionally looking down camera lenses for thrills and attention. In her spare time Alex's uses her new found anonymity to fight crime and to convince people her words are work.
With a website pending, The Tokyo Sessions can be ordered as gig info can also be acquired via her direct email.
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