Grey Mcmurray is a co-leader of Tongues in Trees with Samita Sinha and Sunny Jain. He’s worked as a musician with the likes of Gil-Scott Heron, Tyondai Braxton, Beth Orton, Colin Stetson and John Cale. To name a few. His new solo album Stay Up as represented by the single “Wanting Ways” begins as a kind of alien pop song with his almost spoken tenor spinning a reflective tale of mental and chronic illness and the struggle to keep from going completely over the edge. Throughout Mcmurray exerts an inspired control over where the guitar, nearly unrecognizable as such, to accent and keep pace as synths wash and elevate the mood. The song balances perfectly an enigmatic quality, playfulness and an emotional openness. If the song is the sound of falling apart it is also that of pulling oneself back together through the aforementioned creative capacities and turning turmoil into art. Listen on Soundcloud and follow Mcmurray’s eclectic and distinguished career at the links below.
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facebook.com/figureightrecords
instagram.com/muchgrey
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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