Alphanaut Music

Alphanaut, whose futuristic name is loosely based on the cult 70s British sci fi show called Space: 1999, is an electro-acoustic project fronted by singer/songwriter Mark Alan.

An interest in a wide range of expressive forms is a Mark Alan trademark. Growing up in dairy country near Seattle, he absorbed pop and rock from his dad’s collection of ELO, Santana and Neil Diamond, but was also intrigued by jazz and the cryptic trilling of Chinese Opera. First playing with rock groups in his hometown, he relocated to Los Angeles and formed the band November which evolved through constant cast changes, struggling to create music outside the post-grunge mainstream.

The song suite that comprises the latest work Little Sun is a concept driven piece about the life cycle of a beloved canine, transfigured from stardust to flesh, each song a chapter in the story from birth to the ultimate passage back into the realm of the spirit.

Above chasms of detachment, traumatized love and the shattered vacuum of loss, exists the cosmic perspective, finding the strength to let go of a loved one when it is time for them to depart this life, and the certainty of rebirth. Alan says Little Sun is intuitively inspired. “These songs are not intellectualized, they are pure emotion – the cycles of life: births, deaths and the joys and heartaches in between.”