Featuring numbers with titles like “A light dry table wine”, “Gooseflesh”, “Bed and Desk”, and together with the overall title of the collection, you would be right in assuming that the pieces are lighthearterd duets, possibly inspired by student days together.
Twelve Silly Songs For Twelve Silly Strings is a collection of up-tempo, light-hearted jazz/swing tunes written by Randall Avers and Rami Vamos.
“lively, infectious… a good-time vibe”
FANFARE: Robert Schulslaper
“fun, clever and novel pieces–we love to play them!”
Laura Oltmann & Michael Newman
“irresistible and delightful duets”
Stephen Aron, Oberlin Conservatory and Akron University
“laugh-out-loud funny…. This collection is a treasure”
Matthew Hinsley, President of Austin Classical Guitar Society
“Silly Songs is guitar music which has the rare quality of sounding wonderfully familiar,whimsical and totally unique simultaneously”
Ben Verdery, Yale School of Music
Here is Bed and Desk
and Cricket from the collection, which shows the essentially off beat humour and lightly worn musicality inherent in these pieces.