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| I wrote my first song when I was sixteen and have
continued making melancholy music every since... I'm only half-joking. From humble beginnings when I recorded my first songs
(and some covers) onto a cassette using Mary Ellen
MacDonald's beat box (which had a click bu The last release (2002) is a CD called Clean and features 12 songs - it's just voice and piano. A friend described my music as cabaret-folk. I kind of like that so I'll use it for now. The release before this one was a tape called Take-off and Landings (1999) featuring 10 songs. I've also done a lot of singing with gay and lesbian choirs, and my song "Big City" has been performed by London's Pink Singers and recorded on their CD "Hand in Hand". "Big City" has also been performed by the New Mexico Gay Men's Chorus. You can hear some of these songs on my myspace music page: www.myspace.com/andyquanmusic If you're interested in my music, write to me and we can figure out how to get some to you. |
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| CLEAN Press Release: Get Clean Singer-songwriter Andy Quan's new CD "Clean" features twelve new original songs in his own unique brand of "cabaret-folk". These intimate vocal and piano tracks speak of love and loss, travelling the world, and getting one step further down that road to knowing who we are. His lyrics, full of image and poetry, hint at his other vocation as a published poet and short fiction writer. He's sung on stages with gay and lesbian choirs in London, Vancouver and Sydney as well as at Gay and Lesbian Pride celebrations in Brussels, during the Mardi Gras Festival in Sydney and at the open stage of the Sydney 2002 Gay Games. He's performed solo and with actor Anthony Wong in cabaret shows in Sydney and his song "Big City" has been recorded by London's Pink Singers on their CD "Hand in Hand" and performed by the New Mexico Gay Men's Chorus. Born in Vancouver, Canada, he's lived in Toronto, Brussels and London and currently works as the international policy officer for the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations in Sydney, Australia.  Clean (2002) features 12 original songs. Robin Gist at Electric Avenue Studios helped me record it, David Malone again did a stunning cover using photos by Clive Aspin and David Ellingsen. A whole host of my friends helped me choose which of my songs they thought were the best. Focus-testing is a good idea. If you'd like a copy, drop me a line. I don't charge to make money, simply to try to cover the costs of production. It's a labour of love and I don't expect to either get rich or famous doing it, but I love sharing my music with friends and the world. The twelve songs on the CD are:
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| TAKE-OFFS AND LANDINGS Take-off and Landings (1999) features 10 songs. I produced it on cassette, since at the time, doing a CD seemed a bit too expensive for me. In fact, with CD burners these days, I can burn from the master if anyone is interested in a copy - though the cover is for a tape!
The ten songs on the cassette are:
Yes, my hair is really that white on the cover. It was my first experiment with blondness. The fantastic tape cover is by David Malone who showed me exactly what I was imagining when I described to him what I wanted to do! | |||||
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things pretty well) and Belinda Schmolke made a cover for
me, I've made about eight tapes and 2 CDs with dozens of
my songs on them.
