About Alexander

"The real creator knows that he has not created anything. Existence has worked through him. It has possessed him, his hands, his being and it has created something through him. He has been instrumental. This is real art, where the artist disappears. Then there is no question of ego. And then art becomes religiousness. Then the artist is a mystic-not only technically right but existentially authentic" 

Like these gentle and profound words of wisdom spoken by iconoclastic philosopher Osho.  Alexander's own music speaks in the same deeply spiritual way, which is why I have loved Alexander's music from the first time I heard it. Brooklyn-born independent singer-songwriter and producer Alexander Schelin has released his long-awaited debut CD, Sex No Longer In A Form, with songs to draw from his inner visions and colorful experiences from having been born into a family of Circus Trapeze Artists to having honed his performance skills on countless stages across Atlantic City, Las Vegas and New York City. With groovy, stylish, both musically and lyrically driven songs like "Typical Girl", title track "Sex No Longer In A Form", "Suffocation" and "Let's Make It Clear", the album pulsates from start to finish and back to the start with sophisticated urban sensibility, pumping, organic beats that literally move and shake. It's an album that showcases the culmination of Alexander's dedication to the ideal, the transcendental beauty more readily understood through music, the realm of the unseen. The earthy, in-your-pocket funk is where his searching soul finds limitless expression, drawing vivid contrast to the other world he makes us see: the high gloss, sexualized and superficially idealized world that in comparison to his agape love-focused reality is a rhythmless, chaotic void. All in all, his music is so enviably beautiful, it would fit right in on the trendy catwalk from New York to Milan.

Sex No Longer In A Form, an inspired work in the great tradition of holistic album-making, is a welcome new voice on the independent music scene. On one hand, it's bringing to light the shackles of doubt brought upon us through self-image, a necessary calling to awareness in a growingly more materialistic time. On another, it's a more abstract statement about what it is to have labels, such as the gendered, at all, and how our sense of morality and self worth are intertwined with such labels. He simultaneously makes us dance to the music and to listen to the part of us that cries out from under the facade of unattainable physical and moral perfection. He makes us question the validity of such ideals and pinpoint what really matters. His music expresses all that it is to be human, and in the end, we can find sanctuary in the timeless, tried and true message of hope, that through love, mercy and compassion, we can move beyond mere existence and find love and acceptance for ourselves and those around us, setting us free. "You'll be the judge of you...if God is love, it's true". Throughout this authentic gem of an album, the "All is One" message of love is clear, and it speaks to everyone who has ears to hear.
written by Sali Oguri