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Alex James Muscat... was born and raised in San Francisco, CA is a recording artist. is a songwriter. is a musician. is a performer. is a music producer. is an audio engineeer. is the founder of Last Stop Records. is the owner/operator of Muscat Sound. performs, writes and records with TALL SHADOWS. plays guitar, sings, writes and records with SLEEPS WITH FISHES. plays bass and sings in the JAMES COLLEY SHOW. plays keyboards with FLEETING TRANCE. released - 'Sad Songs and Dedications' in 2003. released - 'BLUEPRINT' in 1999. played guitar, sang and wrote songs for SHRUG. sang, wrote songs for TEN TO SIX. recieved a bachelor's degree from Berklee College of Music in 1994. played guitar, sang and wrote songs for PSYCHOACOUSTIC UNDERGROUND. began recording songs with his Tascam 4-track recorder in 1987. started playing the electric bass in Tom Hargarten's basment, 1986.

Over the last 18 years AJM has written and recorded over 100 original songs and has been involved (as a musician, engineer or producer ) with about half as many independent and commercially released recordings.

AJM was or is in the following list of bands Classic Formula, Merit, Entourage (SPOKANE), The Idea (BOSTON), Psychoacoustic Underground, Bobby Peru (BOSTON), Ten To Six (BOSTON), SHRUG, James Colley Band, Lee Mallory Band, Scotty RocknRoll Band, Fleeting Trance and Tall Shadows.

Born and rasied in San Francisco CA, AJM grew up taking piano lessons and went to high school in the Sunset district during the late 80's. Most of his youth involved starting up bands with friends, playing his Fender Jazz Bass and making analog recordings in his parents basement on the now long worn out Tascam porta two 4-track recorder. After graduating with a bachelor's degree from Berklee College of Music in 1994, AJM started working towards producing and engineering professionally. San Francisco, Marin County and Hollywood were home to various recording set-ups and projects. Check out some of the archives of songs on the music page.