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ANDY SHAUF

My new album is… The Neon Skyline

The sessions… started in a room that I rented from Lido Pimienta. It was below a music store and I could hear people learning piano and violin until the evening, when I would start to work. Violin lessons were particularly painful. I eventually got my own little garage studio space in Toronto and became nocturnal while I worked on the album.

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