Alex Statan

A few years back when Alex Statan was a theatre major at UC Berkeley, the singer and guitarist brought his irresistibly witty, high energy game to The Gilman, the college town’s legendary punk club as part of a popular comedic punk band. Now, fully focused on his solo career but self admittedly “the antithesis of taking myself too seriously,” Statan’s poses a key question to his fans in the Bay Area and beyond on his explosive five song debut EP Go Big Or Go Home: “What if I happen to be your future lover?” Actually, for quirky reasons known only to the singer, he spells it “Luver”—and refers to the film Rush Hour 2 as a means of seduction for good measure.Statan’s been getting an amazingly positive response to that question ever since August 2007, when he first brought his powerful musicianship, cool persona and funk-punk pop attitude to San Francisco’s Hotel Utah Open Mic, considered the city’s best open mic by many local musical tastemakers. The venue’s MC J.J. Schultz set the tone when he said of Statan: “Alex has got some sort of energy when he plays - and I'd like to say it's infectious, but I won't, because that would be cliche, but let's just say it's communicable. Either way, I dig it and the crowd really gets into it, and Alex, generous performer that he is, feeds off that and returns it back to the audience and it turns into a feedback loop of sorts, and before you know it, it's bedlam, craziness, drinks are spilled and people are screaming! He's a pop craftsman and one heck of a singer.”-------------------------------------------------- -------------------Here's what some other cool people have to say about Alex's music:“Go Big or Go Home” is a watershed EP, and the tracks on the disc provide listeners with different pieces that, when put together, show Statan as a talent that is comparable to the likes of a Peter Gabriel. While there are only a few songs on this EP, I know that this CD will be in my car for months to come. Statan shows that there should be no limits to what an individual can do when they create music, and the impressive nature of the tracks on “Go Big or Go Home” should represent some mark that future artists should strive to achieve.-James from Neufutur Magazine