Grind Soundtrack CD

Andrews fell into film score composition by chance when the band he was playing with-cult soul/jazz collective The Greyboy Allstars-was asked to score Jake Kasdan\'s first feature, The Zero Effect. One year later, Andrews got hired to write the music for the highly regarded, though short-lived TV show, Freaks and Geeks (NBC), and soon after, he landed the score for indie film hit, Donnie Darko. Andrews considers himself primarily a guitar player, but Darko\'s director, Richard Kelly, told him he didn\'t want any guitar in the movie. So, he taught himself to play piano by ear. It\'s part of the reason that the score is, as Andrews describes, so simple. \"In a way,\" he says, \"your faults become your trademark.

\" Darko\'s original score album went on to sell over 100,000 copies (in part because of Andrews\' remake of Tears for Fears\' Mad World, featuring Gary Jules), and Andrews became a composer to watch. Andrews, who talks at warp speed with an infectious, nervous enthusiasm, is really part composer, part producer (recent albums include Inara George\'s critically acclaimed album All Rise, and Metric\'s Old World Underground), and part performer. He heard about Miranda July\'s Me and You and Everyone We Know when he ran into the husband of producer Gina Kwan (with whom he went to college) at a party. Kwan\'s husband praised July\'s exceptional script, and so Andrews asked for a copy. It blew him away.