[a quiet interlude during the investigation]

1pm on Sunday. I'm not back in work until Tuesday. We've just had a delicious roast dinner that I cooked, and the glass of wine we had with it is helping it go down. As a crisp February sun twinkles through the window I realise that for the first…

Songcrafters.org did a "Live in the living room "festival recently... The only music I can play in my living room these days is the odd lot of contemplative classical guitar, as anything else would wake up the family at night... :) Here is…

Product of noodling around. Lead guitars are a combo of UAD's Nigel plugin and the Fractal Axe Fx. Clean guitars are the Fractal. The outro guitars are my Princeton Recording amp. I played the piano's through my midi guitar and Axon. You can…

I heard Fort Bigwater by Wildgeas Music this afternoon and it struck a chord and some lyrics came to mind...so here they are...Thanks Wildgeas for letting play.........

Hi Kids, I've been messing around with loops and samples trying out some new sounds. This one is pretty cool. Enjoy!!

An art piano piece inspired by poem Kontrapunkti (Counterpoint) by the Finnish poet and author Eeva-Liisa Manner who was a frontline figure in the Finnish post-WWII modernism. You can find an English translation of the poem here: http://nordicvoicesinprint…

A tale of keeping your head above the water, or not... Recorded Jan-Feb 2011. I wrote it many years ago, never thought I'd ever do anything with it. I intended to record this with just an acoustic and my new EDB (electric upright bass…

Lyrics: Skip ahead to her in pants, watch her dance in the living room in front of all the other dinner guests. She thumbs her nose at simulacra, but someone must play Cleopatra in the PTA's yearly drama fest. Her husband broke his body…

Written & Recorded: Feb 6, 2011 DADGAD, Capo III

Yo, I didn’t mean that I’m just messing with you girl like a copycat But what you’ve said, there’s no taking back See those listening; they don’t know the half of it You were the most miserable thing I had to go though When all…

somehow i wandered in this very different direction

The chorus is adapted from "O Death Rock Me Asleep", by Anne Boleyn, while imprisoned in the Tower of London, waiting for her execution. (Tolar & Savigear 2010)

J.V. Andres - guitar, vocals Veejay Andres - piano, vocals Played as an offertory during a church Advent service. A cover of a Sufjan Stevens song.

J.V. Andres - guitar, vocals Veejay Andres - piano, vocals An arrangement of a French carol translated by James Chadwick with music by Edwin S. Barnes.

J.V. Andres - guitar, vocals Veejay Andres - piano, vocals An arrangement of various medieval antiphons possibly combined in the 12th century, translated from Latin by John M. Neale.

Another ol' Irish song about drinkin' and smokin'. Who knew?

A cover of a song by Chris Quilala.

A cover of a song by Chris Lizotte.

A cover of a song by Jon Foreman.