Andrew X's Biography

When Andrew X was a child the house hummed to the sounds of recording artists such as Van Morrison and Cat Stevens. Filling the rooms with sounds of patient melodies. For Andrew's father, the one who instilled music and guitar in Andrew, this music was the background to his paperwork while he worked in his study, but for Andrew this was were music began, and in 2008 Andrew had to return to this place of serene sounds.

At the time Andrew's full rock band was thriving, but Andrew needed a break; he needed to get away from everything that was loud, so he went back to the music where it all started for him in the first place. In this quiet place he found peace, some air to breathe, and a handful of unexpected stripped down folk songs seemingly penned from the hidden lines of his own journal on relationships broken, relationships mended, and the lives that surround him. An idea came coupled with the songs to record in different places, to have two separate takes on the same songs.

The Language of Love - Earth disc came first with Chris Stamey (Whiskytown, Ryan Adams) and Jeremy Snyder lending in the production of the organic natural sounds found on this disc. At times the music of this disc is somewhat reminiscent of some of the great singer songwriters from the 1970's, but overall it's a mixture of sounds from many different styles ranging from folk to alternative country.

Next Andrew headed to Atlanta, GA to work on the second disc at friend Matt Goldman's Glow in The Dark Studios. Under the guise of producer Jeremy Griffith (Cartel, Cool Hand Luke) the two worked together to give the songs a second take creating a landscape of modulating electronic sounds that gave the originally stripped raw songs an ethereal elegance Andrew never imagined would happen from the simple ideas penned in his journal. These songs make up the Language of Love - Heaven disc.

The Language of Love is not a concept album; these are simply songs with two stories to tell, two paths to wander down, but the conclusion of both is the same comforting peace worth finding yourself in.