Sea Wolf

Alex Church was raised in Columbia, U.S., travelled around with his music-loving peripatetic mother and attended film school at New York University. After which in 1998 he was a founding member of the indie rock outfit Irving. Many of the songs Church wrote at the time didn’t fit with Irving’s ’60’s psychedelia style or output, which led Church to begin performing songs under the moniker Sea Wolf (named after the 1904 Jack London novel). Church from 2003-2005 would invite friends and musicians to play with him locally, and made a number of home recordings in Seattle, U.S., in a similar ilk to Iron & Wine; having a lead sole singer/songwriter and drafting in others when need be.

In 2007 Sea Wolf signed to Dangerbird Records and in the same year released the EP “Get To The River Before It Runs Too Low” and the full-length debut “Leaves In The River”. On the back of the releases Church enlisted the help of Aaron Robinson on guitar, Lisa Fendelander on keyboard, Theodore Liscinski on bass, Aniela Perry on cello, and Byron Reynolds on drums to go on a small tour.

Sea Wolf’s second album titled “White Water, White Bloom” was released September 22, 2009 and recorded by producer Mike Mogis at his studio in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. Sea Wolf contributed the song “Song of the Magpie” to Augusten Burroughs’ audio book “A Wolf at the Table” as well as a song titled “The Violet Hour” for the second Twilight film “New Moon” in 2009. The band’s third album named “Old World Romance” was released in 2012 and was followed by an extensive tour. After which Church returned to the studio and recorded an experimental minimalist album, not intended as a label-backed studio album later titled “Song Spells, No. 1: Cedarsmoke”, which was entirely funded through his Kickstarter campaign.