25 years ago in 1998, Zru Vogue released our 2nd full-length album (which was 16 years after our first album in 1982). The album was a long-distance collaboration between Palo Alto and Los Angeles called "Unlimited Enjoyment/Instant Gratification." This is a rare unreleased bonus track, the instrumental mix of "The Beautiful People/Birth of an Imitation" — ("The Beautiful People" was the working title of what would later be called "Atomic Robot Man vs. The Beautiful People" after the vocals were added).

Unlimited Enjoyment Instant Gratification

The Beautiful People/Birth of an Imitation (instrumental) [Zru Vogue bonus track]

"Consenting Adults" began as an extended funk jam one Saturday night with Rick playing bass and Andy playing rhythm guitar over a drum loop that Andy had composed earlier that week. Then over the next week Andy overdubbed synths and altered chants, and chopped and processed the bass and guitar parts until they were ultra funkified. The following Saturday night, Rick improvised a Parliament-worthy keyboard as Andy sang the words (chosen more-or-less at random from his writing journal). It was a bit of a joke but with a seriously fun endpoint. -ALJ

Zru Vogue - Consenting Adults

New indie pop rock from Zru Vogue founder Andrew Lawrence Jackson.

I'd Like To Paint You

Panic State

From the Zru Vogue album Exile 3. http://zruvogue.com/album/exile-3

Zru Vogue - Cheshire Cat Grin

This is music that does not want to be described, only heard and felt.

Electronic Music From Memory

Soundtrack To An Unfolding Situation

"Rain Cloud Smoke" by Andrew Lawrence Jackson — recorded December 9, 2022 (uploaded to SoundCloud April 13, 2024). Cover photo by Andrew Lawrence Jackson.

Rain Cloud Smoke

"Making the Cut" demo by Andrew Lawrence Jackson recorded September 20, 2022 (uploaded to SoundCloud April 13, 2024). Words and music by Andrew Lawrence Jackson. Cover art by Andrew Lawrence Jackson.

Lyrics:
You make me rethink
Everything I think
I know about you

Girl you make me rethink
I think I’m on the brink
Now that I found you

On the brink of what
I don’t know
I can’t keep my mouth shut
That I know

Am I making the cut?
I don’t know
I can’t keep my mouth shut
That I know

You make me rethink
Everything I think
I know about you

Girl you make me rethink
And I’m on the brink
Now that I found you

Jazz hands in foreign lands
Stage hands for mariachi bands

Am I making the cut?
I don’t know
I can’t keep my mouth shut
That I know

Am I making the cut?
I don’t know
But I can’t keep my mouth shut
That I know
That I know

Making The Cut

An out-take from the album that might have been, recorded and mixed in December 2010. Composed and performed by Andrew Lawrence Jackson. (photo by Javier Pedreira used under a creative commons license)

Emerging Octopus

"I’m in the middle of a life / Testing my fate against will / Change my head, change my mind / Don’t need your little yellow pills" -ALJ

From the album "Modernism" by Andrew Lawrence Jackson. Available at www.cdbaby.com/cd/andrewlawrencejackson2 and iTunes Store.

Little Yellow Pills

Zippy's Theme (Single)

Zru Vogue - Zippy's Theme (circa 1980)

I created this 2018 remix using elements from the Zru Vogue // Zrubotics recording sessions, notably the reverse reverb vocals from "Zombie Robots" and Rick's slide e-bow guitars recorded for "There's Something There." - Andrew L. Jackson 9/15/2018

Zru Vogue - Zombie Zrubots (2018 Ambient Remix)

"Lost World" is the opening track from the new 2020 Zru Vogue album "Zru Rendezvous." #SCxiamOTHER

Download the album from the Zru Vogue website here...  https://zruvogue.com/album/zru-rendezvous

Copyright 2020 Zru Vogue.

Zru Vogue - Lost World (from Zru Rendezvous)

Composed, performed, and recorded by Andrew Lawrence Jackson - March 24, 2020.

Before It's Too Late

Composed, performed, and recorded by Andrew Lawrence Jackson. This track is based on a sample from my own unreleased track first recorded in 1989. The  added instruments (keyboards and e-bow guitar) were recorded last night. ALJ 3/25/2020

Barely audible lyrics:
They never understood you
Scared
They never understood you
They never understood you

OK SO THAT'S IT

The new single from Zru Vogue. Because now more than ever, we can't even.

Can't Even - Zru Vogue

Andrew Lawrence Jackson: independent alternative singer-songwriter, composer and producer in the San Francisco Bay Area; ZRU VOGUE co-founder and multi-instrumentalist. Here you will find tracks attributed to both Andrew Lawrence Jackson and Zru Vogue.

Website: www.zruvogue.com

Andrew Lawrence Jackson

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