about the music here
June 4th, 2008
Included here are a wide variety of projects, experiments, and improvisations, some of which are unpolished or brief.
I’ve decided to go ahead and just put up all sorts of music, even random and experimental pieces, and some very old stuff. Hopefully in amidst the mix will be some good ones, but I was driving myself nuts playing the role of personal censor to decide what’s good enough to post online. If I had my way like that, I’d probably give up having a website altogether.
Those labeled “improvs” were made up on the spot, not rehearsed or written down — just recorded all in one go, sort of stream-of-consciousness-like. Just playing around, I couldn’t repeat them if I tried.
The “sketches” were worked out, quickly, on paper or in mixing software, and are not recorded on the fly.
Cheers, and thanks for listening!
-Andrew
General comments on the music, if desired, may be left below, or you may contact me, or you may leave comments on the individual music postings as they come along.
October 6th, 2006 at 6:28 pm
Wow, I sure wish I could play piano like that…
I wish I could just jam with somebody that could play piano like that.
Very beautiful.
Props, kudos, all of it!
November 17th, 2006 at 10:03 am
You’re one of my favorite people in the whole world.
November 26th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
It has that wiff of honesty it sounds like there is a real connection to what you are playing. What the world does not need is another great piano player, thousands leave jazz schools every year. We need ARTISTS. You could well be the latter!!!
January 3rd, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Very nice piano music - it’s very George Winston-ish and he has been known to calm my soul when it’s been up in the air!!!!!
Thanks!
January 12th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
My housemate and I are fans, already.
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:22 am
Andrew,
Thanks for your lovely CD. I took me this long to get around to listening to it. I’m sorry I didn’t listen to it sooner. It’s absolutely a lovely gift.
Peace,
Magaly
March 13th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Oh, Andrew. It’s always such a pleasure to check in on your work. the improvisation really moved me. I loved the rhythm of it. Thank you for sharing. is really very evocative.
March 14th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Mark Snow?
The opening sequence actually ran shivers through me.
April 14th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Those improvs are amazing! They should be used in a movie. I never thought that simple cheap flute would rise to such heights! You are right, Andrew, I bought the flute in Turkey (Istanbul I believe) in the summer of 1966, while on a car vacation with several fellow English students from Cambridge. I don’t remember the actual purchase - it might have been in Greece instead of Turkey. We drove from England through Austria, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, and Yugoslavia that summer. The scariest part was driving on a one-lane gravel road through Yugoslavia, five miles from Albania, when we found ourselves in the middle of a long convoy of tanks traveling in the same direction. But since Yugoslavia was the only Eastern European country at that time to sell CocaCola, I figured we were OK.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Thank you for taking my breath away with the music you have chosen.
Your photos are nice and dreamy. Merci
Mill Valley, Ca