Since 2016 Grand Drifter is Italy-based Andrea Calvo’s musical project (voice, guitar,
instruments). Sometimes as a band, sometimes him alone.
In 2018 the electroacoustic debut Lost Spring Songs (Sciopero Records): Here a gentle, delicate and introspective songwriting, ranges between emotional coordinates linked to a sort of unquiet Simon & Garfunkel, to the Beatles’ White Album and some glances over pop-rock. In 2021 the more electric Only Child (Subjangle) still follows that wistful and intimate path, adding strong reminds of some Sarah Records albums, Belle and Sebastian popness, Grant McLennan’s melody.
The new album Paradise Window will be released on CD and digital on September 8th, 2023 via Subjangle (UK).

Beautiful Praise (Video Premiere)

What Andrea Says: “I have often found inspiration by imagining that my songs were taken from an unreleased album,forgotten and then rediscovered.”

Lyrics:
“The screenplay I sent you may end with this very tune.
Somehow intertwined
with smiles and cries.
The garden is growing
over the memories.
Something,
something holds me
when the afternoon shines.
Be happy to go on through that way:
it’s a beautiful praise
Be happy to go on through that way:
it’s your beautiful praise.

Something,
something holds me
when the afternoon shines.
Be happy to go on through that way:
it’s a beautiful praise
Be happy to go on through that way:
it’s your beautiful praise.“

“A road trip, maybe along the coast.
Real or imaginary it doesn’t matter, as it’s a glowing, breezy summer morning. With High Llamas, Simon & Garfunkel, some Louis Philippe albums, or a Siesta compilation playing gently in the air.
Like a soundtrack for bright days to come, where simple snippets of life and moods merge to
compose the lyrics of the song.
The proud claim of individual kindness and sensitivity is the core of the poetic imaginary, in which the desire to escape from the present is always strong, to get lost in a world made up of certain beloved albums (from the pop of Sarah Records to Belle and Sebastian, through the high admiration for Paul Simon, Brian Wilson or Burt Bacharach) starting an ideal and secret conversation with all of them.“

Beautiful Praise is out now on Subjangle. Look HERE for more information on Grand Drifter.