Romanian born newcomer Andrei Arsene is quite impressive. I’m not a huge fan of male singer/songwriter music but Arsene’s talent is undeniable...
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Born in Romania, 1984, Andrei Arsene was obsessed with music since childhood. It wasn't until his family moved to the Netherlands in 1990 that he actually started pursuing that passion - he learned to play the guitar, piano and drums.

In 2004, Andrei applied to the Conservatory of Rotterdam to study music production. At the same time, he started putting his songs down on tape.

Now it is Andrei’s mission to get his music heard. He has dreams of touring in the United States, and has taken several steps toward making that happen, including working with various online and radio outlets to generate some buzz. He has also released the stunning EP, Where We Started, and is getting ready to release his debut album in November.

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Romanian born newcomer Andrei Arsene is quite impressive. I’m not a huge fan of male singer/songwriter music but Arsene’s talent is undeniable. The music is acoustic based, bordering on adult contemporary in style but it definitely has that singer/songwriter heart (you know the thing that keeps it from being relegated to the category of “background music”). The album’s title track is easily one of the highlights; the album is wisely named after it. Arsene’s voice flows through the song perfectly and the music moves effortlessly. “Distress on Main Street” is another highlight here, with its humble and bare beginning and well-written lyrics. This isn’t Arsene’s best vocally but it’s wonderful song regardless. The jazz feel of “New Day”
makes for a nice change of pace on the album and shows Arsene’s versatility off, as does the uptempo, pop country tinged “In Your World” that follows it. Overall this is a solid effort that makes me anxious to hear more.

Press reviews

"Energy, groove and good sense of pop/rock song crafting..." "...Very hooky and has commercial appeal"
TAXI.com

"...genius song structures and well defined production... an impressive young musician that has quite a bit of talent."
Smother.net

"...catchy and memorable melodic"
TAXI.com

"It's fairly obvious that Andrei Arsene loves music and has an appetite for performing, with passion and musicianship going for him... Where We Started is a catchy pop song with a strong chorus!"
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Andrei Arsene Biography

Andrei Arsene was born in Romania in 1984, and has been obsessed with music (especially guitars) ever since he was a kid. “I even had a small plastic toy guitar to play with,” he recalls. “We were inseparable! One time when a local band was playing at some restaurant, I couldn’t control myself, grabbed the guitar, and stormed the stage and jammed along with them.” His family moved to the Netherlands in 1990, and it was around this time that he finally grew into the guitar skills that had been waiting within him. He also learned to play the piano and drums, joining a handful of different bands throughout high school in an effort to perfect his skills. He even admits to being expelled from school on more than one occasion for consistently skipping classes in favor of playing guitar.

In 2004, at the age of twenty, Andrei decided to pursue music more seriously, and he applied to the Conservatory of Rotterdam, where he is currently studying music production. He also decided it was time to do something with the material he had been accumulating over the years, and so he took a job in order to make money to transform his bedroom into a project studio, where he immediately started putting things down on tape.

Now, it is Andrei’s mission to get his music heard. He has dreams of touring in the United States, and has taken several steps toward making that happen, including working with various online and radio outlets to help generate some buzz. He has also released the stunning EP, Where We Started, and is getting ready to release his debut full-length album in September. Along the way, he has started generating interest from various record labels, and is keeping his fingers crossed.

“Basically, I just want to be able to, at some point, make a living out of what I do best,” says Andrei, “which is music. My ultimate goals would be getting my stuff on the shelves and doing a lot of shows. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a major record deal, although
I wouldn’t mind! But whether I’m releasing my music myself or through a big-shot label, as long as people are buying the record because they’re enjoying the music, I’m happy!”

For more information on Andrei Arsene, please visit www.andreiarsene.com.

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ANDREI ARSENE PREPARES TO RELEASE
DEBUT ALBUM THIS SEPTEMBER

“Basically, I just want to be able to, at some point, make a living out of what I do best,” says Andrei Arsene, “which is music. My ultimate goals would be getting my stuff on the shelves and doing a lot of shows. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a major record deal, although I wouldn’t mind! But whether I’m releasing my music myself or through a big-shot label, as long as people are buying the record because they’re enjoying the music, I’m happy!”

This is the sort of attitude you don’t often hear about these days, and it is part of what makes Andrei Arsene such a unique artist. You can easily tell, whether you are talking with him or listening to his music, that there is a genuine passion for music that has been living inside of him since birth, and that he is aching to share that passion with anyone who will listen.

And with his latest EP, Where We started, and his debut full-length album, which is set for release this September, Andrei is taking giant steps toward significantly increasing the number of those people who are indeed listening. The album is a culmination of several years of hard work, learning assorted instruments and studying music production, and every track shows off the unique style of music that Andrei now finds easier to describe than he used to. “I used to find it very hard to describe my style of music,” he says, “and I would give people all kinds of long answers, only confusing them. I guess I learned to keep it simple, because in the end, it’s just pop music, no matter if there are any jazz or country or even ethnic influences in it. Really, it can be whatever people want.”

Andrei takes his inspiration from anything, whether it is friends, people he bumps into on the street, stories he hears, stories he makes up, love, and so on, and he talks of waking up in the middle of the night with new songs just floating there in his head. As far as influences go, he cites everyone from Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits to Santana, and from Wes Montgomery to Sting. In the end, he is just trying to express himself in a way that people will find enjoyable, and in a way that one day might earn him a position in the rankings with these guitar heroes he has been influenced by since childhood.


Andrei Arsene’s latest EP, Where We Started, is currently available, and his debut album is due out this September. For more information, please visit Andrei’s website, www.andreiarsene.com. To request an interview with Andrei, please contact Rainmaker Public Relations.