Album Notes

Michael Andrews Me and You and Everyone We Know The most successful art is often unplanned, and for Michael Andrews, composing the score for a film as unique as Me and You and Everyone We Know was just another in a long series of happy accidents. Andrews fell into film score composition by chance when the band he was playing with-cult soul/jazz collective The Greyboy Allstars-was asked to score Jake Kasdan\'s first feature, The Zero Effect. One year later, Andrews got hired to write the music for the highly regarded, though short-lived TV show, Freaks and Geeks (NBC), and soon after, he landed the score for indie film hit, Donnie Darko. Andrews considers himself primarily a guitar player, but Darko\'s director, Richard Kelly, told him he didn\'t want any guitar in the movie. So, he taught himself to play piano by ear. It\'s part of the reason that the score is, as Andrews describes, so simple. \"In a way,\" he says, \"your faults become your trademark.\" Darko\'s original score