INVISIBLE DAYS (15th Anniversary Edition)

Release Date: Nov. 22, 2019
Label: Airbox Music, Brooklyn, NY (Catalog #AB30)

After his hugely influential internship with Philip Glass, Andrew Shapiro began his recording career with music having its antecedents in Glass's vocal song albums Songs From Liquid Days (1986) and Hydrogen Jukebox (1990). 

While living in a San Francisco art gallery in 2000, Shapiro began working on his first album, the EP Invisible Days (2004), on a Yamaha EX5 Synthesizer. Invisible Days introduced Shapiro to the world as a very cool sound designer of vocal music. Aided by the airy vocals of Keisha Hutchins and Peter Hess’s flute, the results are four pieces of sonic precision effortlessly marrying American Minimalism with a neo-‘80s New Wave synth sensibility. Even Richard Serra gets a tribute in song and sound.

In this 15th Anniversary Reissue, all of the tracks have been polished and remixed by Shapiro’s mentor (and the album’s original dedicatee) Michael Riesman.

The addition of two new tracks —rearrangements for string quartet— help to demonstrate Shapiro's evolution as an artist since 2004, when the EP was first released.  It also serves to show that no matter what instruments they are set to, Andrew's compositions contain the same evocative power.

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