Andrew Parker-Renga (APR)’s music is a blend of 90s alternative, Counting Crows/Pearl Jam/Dave Matthews Band and contemporary singer/songwriters like Damien Rice and Ryan Adams. He has been on two national tours and performs over 50 shows a year primarily in the New England area.
Accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, his performances are interactive, recording grooves he beat-boxes on the fly and layering parts on top of it. Listeners are always surprised to see one man on stage and hear a wall of sound. He can, also, command an audience with his just his voice and guitar.
Andrew currently lives in Medford, Massachusetts where he is working on his next album Issue 5 to be released in 2012.
About Issue 4: Portraits
With the release of his latest record, Issue 4: Portraits, Andrew Parker-Renga (APR) has created a “finely honed, artistically savvy collection,” -Dan Bolles, Seven Days. The record is a huge step both artistically and creatively from his last, Issue 3: Emily, focusing on his vocal delivery and melody.
Each track is a snapshot of Andrew’s “considerable talents” as a singer ranging from lush quiet tones, on Portrait, to heavenly falsetto, Sun, to gut wrenching growl, Drawing Dead, to touching, Twenty-Five. As Dan Bolles writes in his review of Portraits: “(Portraits) should propel the singer into the upper echelon of local songwriting talent.”
