For Your GRAMMY® Consideration:
John Gray
Let’s Get the Fuck Out of Here
Best Instrumental Composition
Let’s Get the Fuck Out of Here aesthetically feels like a fantasy of escape over a desert
highway. Picture guns blazing and dust swirling, a cowboy jumping off the hood of a
1970’s Dodge Charger, doing a flip onto a horse that somehow keeps pace. In reality, it’s
the story of someone who has needed a change for a while, and gets it.
Credits:
Composed, Produced and Performed by John Gray
Mixed and Mastered by John Gray
Album Art Design by Jamie Breiwick
Album Photography by John Gray
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Figure It Out
Best Remixed Recording
Figure it Out is a collaboration/remix between John Gray
and the band Mostacho Xprmnt.
The original song is sung from the perspective of a young woman expressing her
feelings to a boyfriend and trying to get him to engage and commit to her.
John’s interpretation of the remix is from the man’s perspective,
who hears a key phrase “Not while your seed grows inside me”
and believes he has impregnated his
girlfriend. He’s trying to process what this means, and is only hearing certain words as
his girlfriend talks to him and tries to reassure him about commitment. He slowly
warms up to the idea as the song goes on, and the distortion and warping that the song
begins with begins to wane.
Credits:
Composed and Produced by John Gray
Mixed and Mastered by John Gray
Album Art Design by Jamie Breiwick
Album Photography by Andrés Marín
Original Recording Credits:
Music by Shilpa Ananth, Andrés Marín, Dave Lowenthal and Luis
D'Elias
Lyrics by Shilpa Ananth
Recorded live at Flux studios NYC in 2018.
Featuring Leala Cyr on vocals, Evan Waaramaa on keys, Luis D'Elias
on guitar, Dave Lowenthal on bass and Andrés Marín on drums.
Recorded by Daniel Alba and John Müller