ALPHA released their third song “Not So Bad” to complete their EP (mini album) on October 6^th, with an alternative indie rock style and lyrics written by AHS junior William Kahn.

Lelani Rosenthal, Matthew Ferguson, Ben Belinski, and Will Kahn formed the band around a year-and-a-half ago, and named themselves ALPHA after deciding that their original name Alpha Centuari sounded too much like a heavy metal band name. Since then the four members have preformed only a few times together, some of which were on Friday evenings during this past summer at Victoria’s Café in Aspen. Since its formation, the band has released three songs, “Not So Bad,” “2:34” and “Lost in You”. “Not So Bad,” the most recent release, may be one of ALPHA’s last songs for a while because three of the members are now off at college.

Kahn and the rest of the band had been working on “Not So Bad” for a substantial amount of time before releasing it. The song is two minutes and twenty-one seconds long, and though alternative and mellow, it is also very catchy.

“I came up with the cord progression and we built off that. I actually wrote the lyrics really late at night at the end of last December, as I recall… The lyrics may or may not be about somebody,” Kahn said.

Kahn returned to AHS this year after completing his sophomore year at Cate boarding school in California. So unfortunately for all girls at AHS, “Not So Bad” is probably not about them.

ALPHA recorded the song locally in a house on Homestake Drive before all three AHS graduates left for college.

Though ALPHA was just recently formed, Kahn has been passionate about music for the majority of his life.

“I’ve been playing music for eight years and really I was immediately hooked,” Khan said.

Not only does Kahn love writing and performing music, he also host a show every Friday night on Aspen Public Radio where he choices song to play on the station and talks about how he interprets the different kinds of music. Kahn plans to write and release more songs in the future because he is so passionate about the songwriting process, and music’s power over people.

“The song writing process is really abrupt and the best part is everything just really coming together. There’s really nothing like clicking with people musically,” Kahn said. “I love love love playing guitar. Just messing around inside scales and making weird cord progressions, and I love writing lyrics. It’s like accessible poetry. It is so fun because it’s a deeply personal creative outlet.”

If you’re interested in hearing “Not So Bad” there is a link on Will’s facebook or click here- https://alpha6.bandcamp.com/track/not-so-bad-2