For Your GRAMMY® Consideration:
John Gray
Imperfect Oasis
Best Instrumental Composition
Imperfect Oasis is an ode to the temporary and somewhat incomplete relief a phone call can bring from loneliness.
Written during a summer when John’s wife and daughter were visiting family in Japan, John wrote this to soothe his own isolation, necessitated by the need to remain Covid free in order to enter a locked-down Japan later in the summer.
Imperfect Oasis calls on an “a session band from the 60’s plus a modern synth” to paint the joy and longing of phone calls to his daughter and wife in a luscious technicolor dreamscape.
Credits:
Composed, Produced and Performed by John Gray
Mixed and Mastered by John Gray
Album Art by Jamie Breiwick
Album Photography by Mari Gray
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Dance Everyday
Best Dance/Electronic Recording
Featuring the vocals of then 2 year old Mia Gray, Dance Everyday expresses the unfiltered joy of a young child, filtered through the somewhat world-weary and well-adventured point of view of her father, John Gray.
In Dance Everyday, John evokes nostalgia for his own 80’s and 90’s childhood with the tactileness of lo-fi grooves, gritty synths, and melodies that evoke a beautiful sadness.
Credits:
Composed, Produced and Performed by John Gray
Additional Vocals by Mia Gray
Mixed and Mastered by John Gray
Album Art by Jamie Breiwick
Album Photography by Mari Gray