LIES-017.5 Torn Hawk/Black Deer split 12 inch
Born to Win (Life after Ghostbusters)
from two song split 12 inch with Black Deer
to be released August 2013

Torn Hawk- Born to Win (Life after Ghostbusters) LIES-017.5

The music industry today, and with it the art industry in general, focuses on the finished product. This focus is unfounded. Art is not an object, either sound, image, or thing. Art is a process, a happening. When we focus on the finished product we miss the 'happening' itself. Releasing an album is akin to giving it its funeral; a farewell. The music happens in the process, and if we're lucky the fruits of that process are captured within the music and are there for the listener to experience; like a memorial at a funeral.

With my next E.P 'A Man on His Tornado Learns the Importance of Space' scheduled for release over the next few months through iH! Audio﻿, I have decided to show you some of the 'becoming' of that release, not with songs from the E.P. itself, but with music I both worked and collaborated on in the interim that developed, changed, and evolved my approach to creating music allowing for the becoming within the E.P, and with it furthering the becoming of Gregory the Asshole.

The first of which I will share is a collaboration project with Jeshua. Where as my approach to music was always adding as much sound in as I could, Jeshua functions in the reverse. If I were a gangster from Brooklyn spitting fierce rhymes down the mic, Jeshua would be a poet, sensitively shaping each words. Both forms have their merits, but working with him thought me the value of subtraction rather then addition. 

Finally, this song is not a finished piece of music. Alas our different approaches rendered our collaboration impossible to finish, but the process itself was truly beautiful. Here's one of the songs we worked on; 'Now I Know How to Care'.

Vocals: Gregory and Jeshua
Guitar: Jeshua
Synths: Gregory 
Produced, mixed and mastered by Gregory and Jeshua
Artwork by Cristina Stoica

Now I Know How to Care (with Jeshua)

Performed by John O'Duffy (clarinet) and the Pro Artie Big Band, Cork School of Music, 06/06/13. Recorded by Darragh Kearns-Hayes.

Concerto for Clarinet

Pieces

A mashup of 'Lawman' by Gilla Band and 'Maneater' by Nelly Furtado.

LawManEater [Gilla Band Vs. Nelly Furtado]

Vocals and samples Emma Garnett
Backing vocals Emma Garnett and Sallay Garnett
Guitar Patrick Groenland
Keys and synth Johnny Taylor
Bass Niall Hughes and Ken McCabe
Drum kit Dennis Cassidy
Percussion Emma Garnett, Patrick Groenland and Paul Kenny
Mixed by Ken McCabe
Mastered by Fergal Davis
Artwork Louise Gaffney and Emma Garnett

Like No Other

"baybay"

written and performed by deem spencer
produced by leaping tiger

baybay (prod. by leaping tiger)

 Old Apparatus member LTO and (oc)cult rapper Mowgli combine forces to create an EP that exists in an interzone between abstract sound poetry, dense wordplay and electronic hip-hop.

www.sullentone.com

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/674111-khing-kang-king-iao

http://www.juno.co.uk/artists/Khing+Kang+King/

Khing Kang King - Metal on Oxtongue (Out now on Sullen Tone)

Music, for me, and anyone else who cares to listen.

Pieces

Stoopchow