For Your Consideration

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For Your Consideration ⚹

The Art of Travel

By Dave Tweedie
For Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

Art of Travel is a cinematic, genre-fluid journey through memory, movement, loss, and discovery. Blending elements of jazz, indie, instrumental pop, and electronic music, Dave Tweedie’s debut solo album moves effortlessly between intimate reflection and forward motion, creating a deeply personal soundscape that feels both adventurous and nostalgic. Entirely written, performed, produced, engineered, and mixed by Tweedie, the album is a deeply personal musical journey that invites listeners to find their own stories within it.

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FEatured Tracks

“Baldwin Moon”

Live from the Art of Travel release party

“Baby let’s Go”

Live from the Art of Travel release party

  • “What a feat. Persuasive rhythms and new dimensions in jazz”

    Van Dyke Parks

  • “Man, your record is slamming….damn, great stuff!”

    Duane Betts

  • “Very vibey. Sounds alive and human.”

    Alex Skolnick

  • “F***ing awesome! Great timbres, very interesting choices. Just a compelling listen”

    Joey Fabian

  • "A refreshingly original instrumental album, full of unexpected twists and turns, coupled with original grooves and melodic invention.”

    John Altman

About the Artist

Dave has composed music for multiple movies and television shows including ABC/Hulu’s Dear Santa (TV series, 2022/2024), IFC’s Dear Santa (Film, 2020), Pick Of The Litter (TV series, 2019), Point of No Return (Film, 2018), NOVA’s The Impossible Flight(Film, 2018), Warner Bros Batkid Begins (Film, 2015), So You Think You Can Dance (TV Series Seasons 3-6), American Idol, Orange Is the New Black, Nashville, Bernie Mac Show, Make it or Break It, Superstars of Dance, MTV’s Celebrity Rap Superstar, Bad Girls Club, Paris Hilton's New BFF, Wake Bros Downtown Girl’s, Keeping up With the Kardashians, and The Devils Ride. Dave’s music has also been featured in several commercials, including Direct T.V., Express and JC Penny’s.

As a drummer Dave has played or recorded with Angelo Moore & Norwood Fisher (FishBone), David Immergluck (Counting Crows), Earl Slick (David Bowie), Les Claypool, Michael Manring (Book of Flames), Eric Martin, Alex Skolnick, Karl Perazzo, and DJ Jay-J Hernandez. Dave has produced tracks for NoDoubt, Flipsyde and Akon. Other Music film credits include The Brass Tea Pot (2013), Velocity (Score Composer 1999), The Final Show (composer and winner best score in a short NYC Independent Film Festival 2018) and Hook Up 2.0 (2019).

His band, EnSPirits, is an Alternative Jazz /R&B project with Victoria Theodore.

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