As some of you might know - earlier this summer i recorded 5 songs for a new E.P.
these songs include:
Goodnight
Fort Bragg
Don't Forget
Love to see you Smile
and Summer Roof
the song Fort Bragg will probably start the album. this track is about a roadtrip taken with bass player kellen garcia where we met up with some new friends on the northern california coast.
Don't Forget is a new song about dealing the insecurity of relationships and how calming and reassuring close physical distance can be.
goodnight is a song about my own personal health problems. i live with something called behcets disease and though i pretty much have it under control sometimes it gets the best of me. many people are unaware that i deal with this and the song sheds some light on the subject i guess you could say. the music for this song was written with my good friend max haymer who does a beautiful version of the song with his jazz trio.
love to see you smile is about picking someone up when they are down. and knowing that they will be there for you when you are down as well. this is the oldest track on the album - written a good 4 years ago.
you may recognize summer roof from the album & we hope - i choose to rerecord this song because it had really gone thru some changes and had a completely different sound with the full band that i wanted to capture.
i'm really excited about this album. during pre-production i talked with the producer andrew capra (check out his band Hopefield) about getting a sound that captured the rawness of & we hope as well as the full band feel of Unfold - i really wanted to find this happy medium. with this new E.P. we cut out the horns and violins from the last record - though there is one saxophone solo on the album - and we grounded it in guitars and vocals. there is more electric guitar work on this album then the last two records but it still has a folk-rock feel. this year - my ipod has been dominated with artists like rocky votolato, ryan adams and the counting crows and i believe that they all have a strong influenece on this album. the E.P. has a bit of a twang but still stays true to the indie-folk-rock genre. i hate genres - i want to be an artist and not be stuck having to write in a certain style or sound - and i think it has been that ability to not classify my sound so specifically that has allowed me to experiment so much over the last 3 albums.
thank you for your continued support while also allowing me to find myself, my identity, my fingerprint as a musician and songwriter.
-Andrew
p.s. - at this time there is no set release date - and the best a can say is that it will be done in the next couple months. my good friend eric frank is mixing the album - and im really not going push the mixing process too fast - i want to really play with the sound of the album. it is in the mixing and editing where the rawness will be achieved.
