alaska in winter

Info/ Licensing: info [at] alaskainwinter [dot] com
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• Alaska in Winter (aka Brandon Bethancourt).
• Is originally from New Mexico but spent half a year in Alaska out in a cabin in the woods recording music during the winter of 2004. hence the name.
• Released its 'debut', "Dance Party in the Balkans" which featured a young Zach Condon (Beirut) in the summer of 2007 on US and European labels.
• Relocated to Berlin, Germany and recorded 2nd album "Holiday" summer 2008.
• Toured for 3 years with the "virtual orchestra" around N. America and Europe including festivals such as Iceland Airwaves, SXSW, Fun Fun Fun Fest, Phono Festival (Norway), Nu Music Festival (Norway) and over 100 other shows in Europe.
• In 2009 was robbed into poverty by his European label.
• Came back to the US and was hospitalized. After exiting the mental hospital, Bethancourt started his own record label AIWM Records in 2010.
• Released "Space Eagle" [the motion picture soundtrack] on cassette tape 2010.
• Released "B-sides & Other Missed Opportunities" as a middle finger to his greedy-ex-label beginning of 2011.
• Released " Suicide Prevention Hotline" EP summer 2011
• Was hospitalized again… fun times!
• Released VHS movie "Futurecoder" fall of 2011.
• Released Memorex Floppy Disk 7" Vinyl October 2011
• Released Airwolfe Flexi Disc VInyl November 2011
• Is currently taking a hiatus from touring to finish 5 albums at once for some reason.
Achievements:
• Alaska in Winter was featured on Grey's Anatomy television series (season 4, episode 15)
• Alaska in Winter was song of the day on LA's KCRW (remix of Submarines iphone commercial song "You Me and the Bourgeoisie" )
• Alaska in Winter was featured in MTV's Making of the Band 4 (spring 09)
• Alaska in Winter's 2nd album "Holiday" won the 2009 Independent Music Awards for best Electronic/ Dance album
• Alaska in Winter is also the 9th Independent Music Awards Vox Pop vote winner
• "We Are Blind" remix was used in professional skateboarder Daewon Song's video "New Years Dae" aired 1/1/11 on theberrics.com
• "Your Red Dress" was used in Daweon Song's X-Games video part summer 2011.



Press Quotes:
"These are the kinds of songs that are impossible to sing without your eyes prayerfully closed. The production is elaborate in a streamlined way, the melodies infectious" -Pitchfork
"Even at its most serious, the album's unfaltering replication of a never-ending European dance party fills you up and never lets you down" - Spin
"Sublime Beauty" -Q Mag
"9/10" Vice (DE)
"The complex rhythms and guest chiming by Beirut will be sure to have ears craving for more" - URB
"It's difficult to overemphasize the pervasive chill that hovers, paradoxically, around the album's warm melodies: Even its most luridly romantic moments sound remote and contemplative." - Pitchfork
"[.AIW] manages to expertly traverse the ever-narrowing gap between folk, classical and electronica. If Bjork, Royksopp and a bit of Bach are your thing, Alaska in Winter will be right down your ice chute. -Esquire Magazine UK