Andy Chase


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An Interview with Andy Chase and Unfilitered Records

    by Carol Pittman

"If you believe in something strongly most likely that means you're right, but it also means most of the time you're in the minority as far as people "getting" it. Eventually the rest of the world will come around to it, but it can take years of flying under the radar...and those years are very tough on your confidence"

New York's Andy Chase of Brookville, a musician and producer best known as member of the band Ivy, is joining today's top tier of progressive artists who are taking complete control of their craft. With a highly anticipated new project, a freshly launched label, and a fully stocked NYC recording studio, Andy Chase's revered music career has just begun.


Flaunting a sleek and slender Euro-romantic sound, Brookville is a beautifully rendered project that allows Chase to balance his talent for songcraft with his love for rich sonic landscapes and textures. It is in some senses a "solo record," on which Chase was free to explore the type of languid, atmospheric music that was only hinted at within the tight pop framework of Ivy's records. But the many contributing musicians on the album - including James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins), Eric Matthews (Cardinal), Jean-Pierre Ensuque (Autour de Lucie), Jon Skibic (Gigolo Aunts), Danny Wienkauf (They Might Be Giants), producer-programmer Michael Hampton, and many others - suggest that the making of Brookville's Wonderfully Nothing was also a collaborative effort that left ample room for experimentation and exploration ...

CP   You are involved in a multitude of projects, bands and productions such as Unfiltered Records, The Band Ivy, Brookville, Paco, The Postmarks and Tahiti 80.  What is your current project and are you working on any new projects?


Andy   I produced and mixed the new Juliana Hatfield album this past year (2007), which is coming out this summer (2008). I am also almost finished producing/mixing the new Trashcan Sinatras record. I just finished the new Brookville album, which has Pedro from Tahiti 80 co producing with me. Pedro and Raphael from the band are Brookville's rhythm section, and along with me and Bruce Drsicoll we're recording as a 4-piece band. I have also been overseeing the releases of both The Postmarks and The Grey Race debut albums (both of which I mixed) on my label Unfiltered Records.


CP  You have established a faithful and loyal fan following that seem to be deeply touched and inspired by your music.  What do you feel this strong connection between you and your fan base?


Andy  I think there's always a small segment of music fans who appreciate mellow, melodic, atmospheric music and the ones who have discovered my stuff (as well as the things I've either signed or siimply produced) seem to really connect. Many have emailed me how they really love putting on headphones and hearing a whole three dimensional world come alive - and that's exactly what I used to flip over before I was making my own music, so I love when people acknowledge this to me. Most pop music today isn't about that kind of detail and experience, so the few who discover this in my stuff seem to stick around for a while and remain loyal.