Official music video for 'The Pioneer'.

You can now watch the official music video for 'The Pioneer' by Ash Verjee below.

Wheatsheaf Gig

Ash will be playing at The Wheatsheaf in Oxford on the 25th July at 8.30pm.

Oxford Arts Festival

Ash will be appearing at The Jam Factory on Sunday 30th September in Oxford as part of the Oxford Arts Festival. More details to follow!

Handshake - World Won't Wait EP

Hello there - thought you might like to check out a sublime band known as Handshake; they came round my house and we recorded their new EP World Won't Wait which you can buy here!

The Kamikaze Eyes EP...

is now on iTunes!

Lavinia Lives EP coming soon...

The brand new 3 track EP Lavinia Lives will be available shortly... featuring Lavinia Lives, Signs and I Believe In You.

As it's almost Summer...

...kind of, I thought I'd dig out this track to help disperse the inevitable gloom that follows snow turning to slush... Those of you who managed to hear A Scholar and A Physician's Uplifting Album a few years back may remember the track Very Yellow I recorded with Harriet "Ash has gone to Oxford/And Harriet to France..." Plewis; back when we were going out in our student days, she came over one hot July morning and we wrote this in about 45 minutes... we dangled an SM58 from my bedroom window to capture the Summer sounds... it's funny how sound takes you you right back to a particular time and place... I sometimes wonder what the people in the aeroplane you hear flying past are doing now...

Rich Whitelock took this photo in my studio during the Kamikaze Eyes EP photo shoot and I thought it should see the light of day. I know it looks all staged and faux, but I was actually playing some Eno-esque long sustained pad chords at the time...

Signs...

...is a song about signs and stuff. Having faith that eventually, perspective will out and everything will be ok because it always is. Inspired by waking up on New Year's Eve and chocolate fondue.

Fall (Orchestral Version)

A few weeks ago I performed my first gig and debuted a brand new version of Fall from I'm Sorry, I'm Lost. The album was all done in Cool Edit 2 see, and now I have Logic Pro... well. who's gonna spend days on end lining up .wavs to their correct tempo and spacings? And with the recent aquisition of the Garritan Personal Orchestra I felt I could now orchestrate Fall the way I heard it in my head all along... And now you can too!

Fall (Orchestral Version)

Another review of ISIL...

is here.

Upcoming gig!

This November, I shall be playing the Port Mahon, Oxford, with The Reverse, La Frange, and Ape Has Killed Ape. Tickets are £4 advance and may be purchased here! This is my first gig since the glory days of Mecca, but with a little practice and implementation of my trusty Shure E2c In Ear Monitors, it'll be a jocund evening...

The Kamikaze Eyes EP

has a review!

I'm Sorry, I'm Lost hits iTunes!

You can now buy your favourite song from I'm Sorry, I'm Lost on iTunes!

Those nice folks at Vanity Project...

...have been rather nice to I'm Sorry, I'm Lost. You can read their lovely words here

New reviews...

... are here, here, and here (go to the Record Reviews link on the left...)

Kamikaze Eyes EP ready at last...

Just a quickie (ooo matron) to say that the Kamikaze Eyes EP is finally all mastered and completed. Rich Whitelock's beautiful artwork for the cover is being printed today and 'cos this limited edition cd is being funded and produced by little old me, I'm quite literally sitting here, putting a new blank cd into my drive every 4 minutes... I'm printing 100, so it's like 15 every hour... I feel like John Locke having to reset the Dharma button every 108 minutes... Anyway, the tracks (most of them anyway) should be here for download very soon!

Kamikaze Eyes and Alien mp3 download...

... is here. Kamikaze Eyes feautures vocals from Oli Horton (Trademark), Violin by Helen Sartory and vocal production by Steve (A Physician). Alien is here too (Steve reckons it sounds like Jesus Jones...) Get a lovingly designed hard copy at Truck Festival for free!

Elegy for M

...the third track from The Kamikaze Eyes EP is now online over at www.myspace.com/ashverjee. The EP will be limited to 100 copies and pressed into the hands of random people I meet at this year's Truck Festival where I shall be appearing with ASAP.

Ok, so Kamikaze Eyes is virtually finished. A Scholar recently added his sonic mastery to the track which will feature Oli Horton (Trademark) on Vocals...

After much stripping and rebuilding, Alien is now complete with much of the gumpf that was over-egging the pudding ejected.

A fourth (and final) EP track is currently in production as I type...

All the tracks will be up on my myspace site and right here for download very soon... I hope.

New review by Freedom Road Records' Russell Barker

Russell Barker has reviewed I'm Sorry, I'm Lost. You can read it here. Russell Barker runs Freedom Road Records currently employing the sonic talents of Nervous Testpilot and Under The Igloo.

Ash Verjee at MySpace.com!

You can now visit me and my music at http://www.myspace.com/ashverjee

Nightshift review...

"I'm Sorry, I'm Lost" was reviewed in Nightshift magazine recently. You can read the review here.

Get "I'm Sorry, I'm Lost" delivered to your door...

If you would like a FREE copy of "I'm Sorry, I'm Lost", please send a self-addressed, 3x 1st class stamped jiffy bag to:

Ash Verjee
26 Neave Mews
Abingdon
Oxon
OX14 5FP

Welcome!

Hello to all! Welcome to ashverjee.com!

News

21 August 2005

Well the lovely Steve just spent ages round my house helping me with this website. We watched a bit of Lost and i stuffed him with Jaffa Cakes and Orangina. Anyway, here it is and I hope you like it. There are no exciting buttons to push, or crazy flash animations to play with, but there's a bit of stuff you can read and there's some music you can download.

I'm playing the Bestival as part of Piney Gir's band on the 9th-11th August. We shall be joining Roksopp, The Magic Numbers, The Super Furry Animals and the divine Emiliana Torrini so it should be a blast.

I'm Sorry, I'm Lost

"I'm Sorry, I'm Lost" is ash's self-released debut album. Spanning 8 years of songwriting, this tender and beguiling album is full symphonic melancholy, cinematic minimalism and features the odd UEA Drama clerk on vocal duties...

You can listen to some tracks below.

Fall

Theme from Rapture

Spark
(featuring Ms. Lucy Evans)

I'm Sorry, I'm Lost Artwork

The wonderful Katie Nairne has designed all the lovely artwork for my album and you can email her at caitlinnairne@hotmail.com