ZRU VOGUE plays avant-pop surrealist rock for postmoderns.
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Zru Vogue is Andrew L. Jackson (singer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist), Rick Cuevas (bass, guitar, keyboards, etc.), and Patrick Coyne (electronic drums and percussion).
We started Zru Vogue back in 1980 and we’re still based in the San Francisco Bay Area—writing, recording and performing modern experimental music.
Zru Music
Zru Vogue sings about life, love, beauty, decay, loss, transition, and transformation. Many Zru songs are atmospheric and open to interpretation by the listener.
Arrangements tend to be imaginative and unusual, from the arty pop minimalism of “Japanese Schoolgirl Mapping Device” to the moody mysteriousness of “This Will Make You Beautiful Again” and the electronic experimentation of songs on “Galerie Zru.”
Most Zru Vogue songs begin as words scrawled in the book that Andrew Jackson always carries around with him. Typically Jackson will then put some music to the words and then Cuevas and Jackson flesh out the arrangements in the recording studio. But just as often, they’ll start experimenting with sounds in the recording studio and get inspired to take a song in a new and unexpected direction.
To capture a fresh, authentic quality in their recordings, Jackson, Cuevas, and drummer/percussionist Coyne prefer to record most tracks in a single take, and whenever possible, use the first takes from their overdubs as well. Any resulting imperfections or serendipitous “mistakes” help to give the recorded music more life and depth of emotion.
New CD: Zero
New Zru Vogue CD released October 15, 2011.
A follow-up to The Exile (2006), Zero: Exile II delves deeper into the mind of our hero, Zero, as he struggles with issues of identity and existence, fantasy and reality. Available now from CD Baby!
