Boay, Andy

Boay, Andy

So So So We See & Trenches In The Sun

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Recorded in 2005 - 2006 and shared in limited fits and starts over the last 20 years, this is the music of a teenage Andy White, one year before he started the group Tonstartssbandht. Originally two separate albums, reissued now as a 2xLP, on vinyl for the first time."A lot of nice fans got pissed at me a couple years ago for taking this off my bandcamp page so I realized that I should probably reissue it.""A 16 year old in Florida with an interest in New Weird America, learning how to use Garageband, doing his best to mix, never even heard of 'mastering'. Listen close for Beach Boys, Faust, Animal Collective, Comus, Blue Gene Tyranny, Sunburned Hand of the Man. For fans of the youthful spark. Stay honest, don’t be ashamed."

Boay, Andy

You Took That Walk For The Two Of Us

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This is the first new Andy Boay album since 2013’s In The Light. I recorded it in January 2024 to a Yamaha MT8X 8-track cassette recorder in my room at the New York Center for Creativity & Dance in the East Village of Manhattan. I mixed it in June 2024 with Joe Santarpia and Roberto Pagano at the Idiot Room in San Francisco.The three songs on Side A (“HBM,” “If I Ever Come Off,” and “You’re In The Air Now”) were initially arranged over several live performances using a multi-track looper. When I then sat down to track them to my tape machine, I meticulously sang and played out all repeating parts, layering and ping-pong-bouncing each doubled take to another tape-track. In this way I hoped to maintain the hypnotic quality of the looped parts while keeping them organic, singular, and fleeting.Side B is a triptych of more carefully arranged pop songs: a tremolo & mod-delay elegy to youth called “Careless,” bookended by two variations on the same theme — the stark, mellotron prayer of “One & One” and the lonesome after-hours funk of “I Want More”.The line “You took that walk for the two of us” has a dual meaning. In 2011, my friend Spencer Gilley took a long walk through Montreal while listening to demos I’d recorded. He described the experience to me as magical, ecstatic, inspiring. His encouragement from that moment still echoes every time I sit down to write or record. Less than a year later,...