ME and the people that inspire me, are willing to help me, allow me to share with them, and take part in life to help others. Those who are willing to be patient with the impatient, humble to the proud, loving to the hateful, share with the poor, give a home to the refugees, be peaceful with the violent, and teach those who don't yet know that they are loved and cared for and that the world can be both a bigger place and yet small...
Influences
Some influences...
my dad...
Jesus Christ, King David, King Solomon, and the Old Testament prophets, Australia, Avail, Bonobo, The Beatles, Ben Harper, Blackalicious, Brian Setzer, Danielle Andre, Diane Andre, Four Tet, Fugazi, Good Riddance, Hepcat, Infectious Organisms, Iron & Wine, Jada Andre, Jeromie Woolard, Jon Swift, Josh Garrels, Keith Andre, Lemon Jelly, the Lions, Matthew Scheier, Mike Ness and Social Distortion, Johnny Cash, M. Ward, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Peatbog Faeries, The Psalters, Ryan Dobson, Rob Bell, Russell Brownley, PM Andrew Simpson and the Port City Pipes and Drums, Sacred Intent, Stretch Armstrong, Sufjan Stevens, Tom Curren, Tommy Emmanuel, Trace Bundy, Turkey (the country), Shane Claiborne, Cheick Sissoko, Aboriginal Australians...
Sounds Like
Me a guitar and maybe a didj or two...
Record Label
Port City Pipes & Drums @ www.portcitypipeband.com
So I decided to give this competition a try. If you're stoked and would like to help share and spread the music and the love, grab this widget and vote here....
~~~New album out now!!~~~the Phoenix & the Fish~~~
Featured Music:
PSA 1 for Documentary on Plastics in the Ocean
featuring "Whale Song"
A Tale of Entanglement from Plastic Ocean on Vimeo.
JC Underground presents Global Warning featuring the song "Eloi"
Congocast (featuring "Raised") *Due to graphic nature of the content of this documentary, viewer discretion is advised*
Didjing w/ Aravis for Congocast
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JASON ANDRE: Winter Dreams EP
If a young surfer learned to play a guitar from his father, became an Aboriginal man sometime during adolescence, put on a kilt, traveled to Turkey, met the resurrected Christ, then sat down to sing about it...this is what it would sound like!
Pulling from more influences than I can name on a page, music in my life has been a whirlwind of ideas and sounds since I first touched the keys of a piano back in Chicago when I was 7 years old. From punk rock to rocksteady, and Beatles to bagpipes my inspirations and interests are as vast as the ocean I live in. Living on a little island can be very isolating, but also very exposed. In some ironic way as we are exposed to wind, waves, and tides here, so have I been exposed to so many blessed musicians, techniques, sounds, and musical artforms. The eagerness to get off the island and travel may have something to do with it, but God's creation of sound, music, instruments to weave together notes, vibrations, and rhythms is infinite and ever changing. So in an attempt to bring together just a fraction of the experiences of my life in a pallete of words, notes and beats I've composed and recorded an album of sorts. My hope is that the album conveys a feeling of inspiration, hope and love, while maintaining a sense of reality and dealing with the struggles and spiritual demons that we all face and have the strength through Christ to conquer. I played in a punk band a long time ago, but at a coming of age I stepped away from that and explored more territory both physically and spiritually. What has given way is what you hear now. I've been both blessed and honored to have played with my brother Josh Garrels, the Lions, the Psalters, Flatfoot 56, and "brothas" in Sacred Intent at the Cornerstone festival the past two summers. I also was blessed with an opportunity to play a set on Glen Clark's Jesus Village Stage and several more under the shade and fellowship of the Alliance World Coffees tent, where I volunteered serving coffee as well. Only one person knows the future and His plans have been better than any of mine so I'm stoked to continue working and refining my skills to hopefully glorify the creator and bless and encourage others, while being blessed by them. Your most likely to find me leading worship at Christian Surfers somewhere on the East Coast, or if you're in the Wilmington area, working with kids around town, volunteering with Dreams Center for Art Education, playing bagpipes with Port City Pipes and Drums, or playing Djembe and Didgeridoo with West African master drummer and dancer, Cheick Sissoko and Soko African Drum and Dance Ensemble...
Visit http://www.facebook.com/video/?of=518151424 for acoustic performances of Jason Andre
2006 Surf Promo featuring music by Josh Garrels "SISU"
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This years festival is headlined by Billy Bragg (Friday), Seth Lakeman (Sunday) and Peatbog Faeries (Saturday) with many more top artists also performing incl the award winning The Demon Barbers.
Just letting you know that our EP “Or Am I A Nightmare?” is up and available for purchase online at CDbaby, Amazon, iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, and many of your other favorite internet music stores! Check it out and let us know what you think!
nice bro, so cool! i jsut did it today too in china, right at the border with orth korea in this cofee house, amazing stuff man! all for him indeed! aloha
~~~New album out now!!~~~the Phoenix & the Fish~~~
Featured Music:
PSA 1 for Documentary on Plastics in the Ocean
featuring "Whale Song"
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