Tommy Alexander has never quite known where he was going, just to keep moving. 


In 2018 Alexander founded Pilot Light Booking. Pilot Light was a booking agency that initially revolved around Portland’s close knit songwriting community. In June of 2020, bored and sitting on a finished record, Alexander released Waves. A collection of songs that garnered modest attention in the press, including the title track being named the 3rd best song of the year by KEXP Radio DJ, Greg Vandy and Magnet Magazine calling the Waves the 10th best Indie Album of the year. Waves was recorded live in Enterprise, OR by Bart Budwig. 


Alexander moved to Nashville in April of 2021. With touring slowly coming back, Alexander was ready to make a new record and dive back into booking tours. He would go on to book more than 800 shows between April 2021 and April 2022, and was responsible for a roster of 25 artists. The self taught booking agent was putting together thoughtful national and regional tours, as his Pilot Light Booking had grown into a roster of more than 50 artists, gaining regional and even national attention. 


While in Nashville Alexander linked up with producer Andrija Tokic. Tokic put a band together of Nashville session musicians including Chris Scruggs, Jo Schornikow, Megan Coleman, “Little” Jack Lawrence, Billy Contreras, and Dillon Watson. This band would make a record that we now refer to as, Feelings. On Feelings, we find Alexander delving deeper than ever into his own emotional state through a poetic and approachable songwriting lens.


In April of 2022, Alexander was offered a job to book tours at Wasserman Nashville, one of the most respected music booking teams in the world. As hard as it was to let go of Pilot Light Booking and the idea of a dense touring schedule of his own, Alexander knew this was something he needed to pursue. So here we are. A new record and a strange journey continued.  


Over the years, Alexander has shared shows with Big Thief, Michael McDonald, Mac Demarco, Chaka Khan, and People Under the Stairs among many others. 

Feelings was recorded in Nashville at The Bomb Shelter with Engineer Producer Andrija Tokic. The record was primarily tracked live over five sessions and choice over dubs were made. Alexander credits Tokic as a wizard of audio.

Feelings

Tommy Alexander - Something Light

Live dj set at the Crossroad, Lightning in a bottle 22’ 
Dedicated to our recently past love ones!

TRACK ID:
Mystery of Love (Instrumental Mix) • EDUKE
Mafqoud (DJ CHUS Remix) • Ramy Mishriky
Scylla • Jay Neves
Your Paradis (Original mix) • ANGST vor GRETA, Marc Gonen
Ponka • Arturo
Lady Cherry • Whitesquare
Dame Mas (Original Mix) • BadWolf, Soff
The Others (Original Mix) • Stil & Bense, Orbit Aeolian
Sade - Couldnt Love U More (Jam Master Deep Rework)
Liberator • Maximilian De Vos
Awake (Extended Mix) • Aleksey Beloozerov
Legacy (Perc Mix)• MicSoulSA
Stranded Spaceman (Dubspeeka Remix) • Herzog & Aurich
Dancin In the D • Ash Lauryn

HUES in the CROSSROADS (LIB takeover 22')

Gill To Gill By Ned Tobin

Efficient Space is honoured to share the little-heard recordings of three Yolngu songmen from Northeast Arnhem Land - Bobby Bunnungurr, Jimmy Djamunba and Peter Milaynga (d. 2007) - working in collaboration with Victorian musician Peter Mumme. Yolngu are the indigenous peoples of Arnhem Land in Northern Territory, Australia; their clans are the Marangu and Malabirr, the languages Djinang and Gannalbingu. Their songs are of instruction, story and ceremony.

A connection first initiated by Yolngu actor David Gulpilil, Waak Waak Djungi’s mid-90s recordings were preceded by years of respectful sharing of culture. Mumme explains that “the aim was to produce something that is new, not in the sense of a breakthrough, but what emerges from the combining of existing ideas”. What developed was sonically unique - sprawling vocal/electronic soundscapes and field recordings that reimagine the traditional songs of black crows and white cockatoos, sharing, creation spirits and of leaving and returning home to country. Spacious and patiently durational, the songs resound in a big land with a big story to tell.

On the 1997 Waak Waak Djungi album Crow Fire Music, these interpretations were assembled with traditional recordings and additional material from Sebastian Jörgensen and Sally Grice. Falling short of generating public interest, it became well known in the Yolngu homeland. Nearly two decades later, a CD copy filed away in the 3RRR FM library would prompt a three year investigation to meet the people behind the music.

Waak Waak ga Min Min (Black Crow, White Cockatoo) combines the previously unreleased Gandi Bawong with five contemporary versions from the original album, with a new cover painting by Bobby Bunnungurr. Tracing 1997 back to many millennia ago, this is a captivating window into the richness of Aboriginal culture and collaboration.

Waak Waak ga Min Min

05 Waak Waak Djungi - Gandi Bawong 4:17 (ES006)

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Sourakata Koite — Seremende

(I'm not ok.)

I'm a dreamer, so let me go.
secret keeper, just let me know.
have faith in me, know that I can be strong.
just give me your heart, and I can belong
give me your heart, and I'll belong.

Lady bird, hold me tight
stay with me, all through the night.
this empty nest can't take more.
so hold your breath, the darkness and light.

Meet me in the forest, splash me with water from the river below.
tell me it's okay, tell me I'm pretty and that nobody knows.

I want it, I want it, I want to be me
I want it, I want it, I want to be free
I want it, I want it, I want to be me
just let me be.

The depth of despair doesn't scare me at all
sometimes no one's there, sometimes I hate it all
but knowing you're with me it feels like a breeze
knowing you're with me I'm finally free
I know that you're scared and that nothing compares
to that hurt that you feel of knowing it's real
of knowing that the world may not give you a chance
but darling here I am, give me this dance.

Gill To Gill By Ned Tobin

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