Like most music projects, the idea behind Spark Alaska began late at night while sitting on the edge of a bed with a guitar in hand. Originally a side project to Throw Television, a band whose members have now gone on work in projects such as Kjurr and Mannequins on 7th Street, Lorenzo Gillis Cook began writing music under the moniker Spark Alaska as a freshman in high school. Growing up in Brussels, Belgium as an expatriate from the United States