"Andrew's songs are like a cracked-mirror reflection of the world we know - a parallel reality told through ghost stories, underground travel tales and weird historical fiction." - Amplify Music Magazine
On his new album Blood Moon, veteran fiddler, singer-songwriter and guitarist Jeff Andrew explores a dream-like narrative landscape through an electrified patchwork of folk, rock and post-punk, with echoes of old-time Americana and 80s horror movie soundtracks.
Blood Moon mixes keyboard synths, orchestral instruments and tight vocal arrangements with a full-band rock sound, and features cameos from longtime friends and collaborators Leo D.E. Johnson, Jack Garton, Martin Reisle, Clara Rose, Ryan Boeur and Wretched Erin.
Jeff’s music career dates back to 2007, with the release of Truck Stop Wall, a 7-song EP he recorded by himself in an attic in Victoria. Prior to this, he'd spent years traveling around North America, learning his craft while he supported himself by busking and tree planting.
In 2008 he hitchhiked across Canada with poet shayne avec i grec as the folk/spoken word duo Ghosts Of The Highway, playing over 50 shows between coastal BC and Newfoundland. He also joined Vancouver’s country punk outfit the Joey Only Outlaw Band on fiddle.
The cover is a commissioned painting by visionary Mexican-Canadian artist Miccaotli. It reflects the album’s themes of fantasy, survival, our connection to Earth and mythological worlds overlapping with dreams of home.
Jeff’s songs have always been rich in imagery and stories. This album is their most fully realized rendering yet, inspired by the sonic landscapes of bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and genre-crossing artists like Neko Case, Tom Waits, Bjork and Nick Cave.
Recording sessions began in Cumberland, BC in March 2020, with engineer Corwin Fox, keyboardist Adam Farnsworth, bassist/percussionist Kenan Zeigler-Sungur and drummer Denver Venoit. Work slowed to a crawl during the pandemic, but the album was eventually completed, and was released digitally and on vinyl in spring 2023. B-Sides And Badlands called it "Andrew's magnum opus."
Between 2009 and 2013, Jeff released 3 self-produced, full-length albums of original songs to airplay and critical acclaim in North America and western Europe, and toured extensively. In 2012/13, he spent the winter in Halifax studying classical violin, playing with the Halifax Music Co-op (a community orchestra), and learning East Coast fiddle tunes at pub sessions.
In 2014 he collaborated with Vancouver punk band The Rebel Spell on their album Last Run, and took a break from the road to study music full-time at Vancouver Community College. After graduating in 2017, he started work on the songs and arrangements for Blood Moon.
Jeff has been a featured performer at over a dozen festivals (most recently at the new Ignite The Arts festival in Penticton, BC) and has toured Canada multiple times, playing hundreds of shows between Vancouver Island, Newfoundland and the Yukon. Onstage, his sound ranges from solo acoustic performances to loud, effects-driven electric guitar and foot-stomping fiddle tunes, all spun together with his folksinger’s baritone voice.
He currently lives in Penticton with his partner, the multi-disciplinary composer Danielle Savage (Loon Town, Migration Parade) and teaches guitar and fiddle at the Penticton Academy of Music.
