With the video for his song “Keep Your Mind,” Grey Mcmurray gives us a timelapsed view into a windy morning. Is it a harp or dulcimer creating the delicate, ethereal string melody? Is part of it guitar? It matters less than how the music draws us into a dream-like sonic realm punctuated by sharp ululations like a rooster crowing with the dawn. A harmonium drone and organ drift in with a kind of complimentary counter melody for a song about trying to keep it together despite great internal and external pressures making keeping any kind of equilibrium challenging. And as the song comes to its conclusion the elements fall apart and piano breaks off into a kind of anti-melody and the rhythm comes off the rails ever so gently yet abruptly. It is an unsettling moment yet Mcmurray’s treatments in the song give an often abstract and mysterious process a form that is explicable that he was able to articulate in an accessible format thus giving voice to struggles many people face daily but in which they often feel alone. Mcmurray shows how it’s possible to pull back from the ledge through living in the moment and honoring your feelings. Listen to “Keep Your Mind” on YouTube and watch the attendant video and keep a lookout for Mcmurray’s first solo album Stay Up due out September 19, 2019 through Shahzad Ismaily’s figureight records. You can follow Mcmurray and figureight records at the links below.
twitter.com/figureight8
facebook.com/figureightrecords
instagram.com/muchgrey
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