Norwegian songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Alexander von Mehren was born in 1984 and grew up studying classical piano. By his teenage years he was already writing songs and learning how to play various instruments. While enrolled at the University of Bergen in a second-language linguistics program, von Mehren began work on what would eventually become his debut album, Aéropop. Though some songs for the record were written as early as 2001 (when he was still just 16), the intricate and meticulous recording process stretched from 2005 to 2012 and would include con...