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Jürgen Wolther (born 19 July 1968) is a German electronic music composer, musician graphics- and video artist. He is most known for his works as a Reggae and Dub Reggae musician under the name of alionsonny since 2004. After working as a live musician in various bands, in 2004 he started the Reggae and Dub Reggae project alionsonny in 2004 and later various other projects for different musical genres.

Early years 1974 - 2004
In 1982, Jürgen Wolther joined his first band, a Punkrock band called "The X-Rays" as singer and lead guitarist. Over the years, he played and sang in various bands of various genres, mostly Punkrock and different flavors of Metal. Recordings of that period are extremely rare. In 1998 Wolther began a career as a professional software developer and stopped making music. In 2004 he discovered the possibilities of digital music production and created the Reggae and Dub Reggae project alionsonny.

2004 - 2006 alionsonny
In 2004 Wolther, due to his activities in the growing online Dub Reggae community, discovered the possibilities of digital music creation using computers. At this time his main source of inspiration was the Dutch digital dub producer Messian Dread and his works. His main musical influences included Zion Train, Jacob Miller, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Linton Kwesi Johnson and music of a variety of different genres from Irish Folk to Techno. During summer 2004 he released his first tracks on the (no longer existing) online reggae artist community Versionist. In November 2004 the first album of the alionsonny project, "XperiMental Reggae WorX" was released as a CD album. In 2005 Wolther released the (discontinued) album "Early Xperiments in Dub" in October 2005, which featured previously unreleased early recordings.

2006 - 2009 Willma Poppen
During 2004 to 2006, Wolther discovered his love for mixes between several musical genres and released the album "Excursions in Time & Space" in October 2006, which featured a colorfull mix of non-reggae crossover experiments. "Excursions in Time & Space" received a mixed response from the audience. Especially the online Reggae music community understood the album as a total break with Reggae music. In November 2006 the Willma Poppen project was born as a community project, which was inspired by a online chat session about the music industry. The goal of the project was "to create the most mass compatible Pop music to get rich quickly" (Jürgen Wolther). In July 2007 the (discontinued) album "This is not really Reggae" was released as a cheeky gesture to the Reggae music audience. The album title is a quote from a forum posting a listener wrote about one of the more experimental tracks on "XperiMental Reggae WorX". The album featured a more "danceable" and structured sound than it's predecessors.

2009 "Alion - The Original Soundtrack" and "Alion Meditations"
In June 2009 Wolther started to work at "Alion - The Original Soundtrack", his first concept album. As a fan of role-playing video games he allways dreamed about creating the sountrack for such a game. He started to develop a plot for a fictional game named "Alion" and composed songs for it. The concept also included, that the album should only contain orchestral tracks as they are commonly used in role-playing video games. In November of the same year, Wolther launched another project for a concept album titled "Alion Meditations", which should feature meditative and ambient style music. In December a Reggae music album, named "Reggae?" was released, which featured a refined version of the typical alionsonny Reggae style.

2010
Over a year after the work at the first tracks for the "Alion - The Original Soundtrack" started, the album was released in September 2010. In November a album titled "Electronic Spacerock" was released. It featured 13 non-reggae tracks recorded during 2007 to 2010. "Electronic Spacerock" received much positive attention from the audience.

2011 Cimelium
After confusing the audience for years, by releasing different styles of music under the artist name alionsonny, Jürgen Wolther decided in September 2011 to "split his artist identity into several". The project "Alion Meditations", started in 2009 became a separate music project named "Cimelium". The concept of the project was extended from Meditative and Ambient to Ambient, Chillout and Ethnotronic and the album Title "Mesopotamia" was chosen. The idea was to create 13 themed tracks named after gods, cities and countries in ancient Mesopotamia.

2012
During six years, the song releases by the Willma Poppen project were getting fewer, so Wolther decided to change the project from a community project to a one man project. He produced the, up to then, missing 7 tracks and released the album in September 2012. In October the debut album of the Cimelium project "Mesopotamia" was released.

2013
In January 2013 the album "Excursions in Time & Space" was re-released as a free download under a Creative Commons license. In the course of using digital music distribution services to sell his music, Wolther discontinued the albums "Early Xperiments in Dub" and "This is not really Reggae". The tracks on these albums were rearranged into two new albums titled "FREE!" and "Dub Antiquities". "Dub Antiquities" was released in January and "FREE!" was released as a free download under a Creative Commons license in February. Anew alionsonny album is announced for summer 2013 and also a Cimelium album titled "Madeira".