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

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