Grass Nap Released! Download it Now for Free!

After much ado, Grass Nap is finally here.




I had a budget of literally $0 for this album. It was conceived, produced, recorded, mixed, mastered, marketed, and distributed almost entirely from my dorm room (admittedly, I did do some recording in the library). That being said, nothing is made in isolation. I had a lot of support from other excellent artists. Take a moment to look at the liner notes for more information about the people who helped make this happen. I personally put a lot of time and effort into bringing this out for you. I'd greatly appreciate it if you did one or more of the following to help me out:

• Share this music with your friends on your social networks. I've included this handy little button to make it easy to share this page via Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Digg, AIM, good old-fashioned e-mail, or a number of other popular web services. Free music for all!
  
• Declare yourself a fan of Gripp on your favorite social networking site. I currently have pages at Facebook, Myspace, YouTube, Last.FM, and Amie Street.
• Donate to glassEyeballs.com! The album is free, and while it's true that the creation of the album did not cost me anything out of pocket, hosting the album for download definitely does! I am charged based on data transfer, which means that every time someone downloads the album, I must pay. Even a small donation could help tremendously!
  
  
  

Enough chatter. Download Grass Nap now!

Album art designed by Lawrence Forrester.
All beats, recording, and mixing by Gripp except where noted.

1. Cold Open
Beat by The Mad Scientist. Mixed by The Mad Scientist.

2. Grass Nap (Theme)
Beat by Surreal.

3. Walking in the Dark
Beat by Surreal.

4. Speak to Him (feat. Greydon Square)
Beat by Surreal. Additional Production by Gripp. Additional recording and mixing by Greydon Square.

5. Building Walls

6. Brought to You By
Beat by Surreal. Additional vocals by Jack and Kyla Marshell. Additional recording by Jack.

7. Sucks to Be You (feat. Jack)
Additional recording by Jack.

8. Ballad for Jayme Langford
Beat by Surreal.

9. Black Sheep

10. Geek for Hire
Guitar performed by Flora Bernard.

11. Kiss and Tell (Seismic)
Beat by JH3.

12. Dieting

13. Hug Poem
Recorded at Mocha Match Café in Decatur, GA on 03/07/2009.

14. Saturday Goodbye
Beat by Harold "Martamius" Henry, Jr.

15. Photos Rip

Grass Nap by Marshall "Gripp" Gillson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Grass Nap Release Set for April 24—for Free!

I plan on releasing my newest album here on glassEyeballs.com next Friday, April 24, as a completely free download. This album was brought from conception to completion in less than three full months; needless to say, I worked hard on it. I hope you come back to download it when it's available. It should be good. I've uploaded another track from the album to Youtube—no MP3 for this one until the disc comes out. If you've been following glassEyeballs updates, you'll recognize it as the verse from "Video Form, Part I." But now it's got a snazzy new beat from The Mad Scientist. He's dope. Check him out.

Here it is. Enjoy.

Java Monkey and the Grass Nap Cover

On Sunday night, I competed in the team selection finals for a spot on the Atlanta slam poetry team. The night was crazy. The power on the entire street went out. Twice. The first time delayed the slam half an hour. Crazy. I ended up placed fifth, which makes me the team alternate. If all goes according to plan, then, I will get to attend the National Poetry Slam this year as part of the Atlanta entourage. Sweet! Ahead of me in the slam—that is, Atlanta team members for 2009—were (are):

• Gypsee Yo
• Miss Haze
• Mista Funn
• Fit

I can't remember if that's the order they placed. I think so.

On an entirely different note, I am finishing up my next album. Over the weekend, I finished all necessary recording. All that is left is mixing, and perhaps some other minor tweaks. It should be done relatively soon. My newest tidbit is the album cover.



It was designed by a friend of mine, Lawrence. You should look at some of his other art.

New Music and the Album Title Revealed

Okay!

As you may (should) already know, I've been working on a thus-far-untitled new album crafted around my FAWM songs. Today you get to hear the first song from that album, and also find out its title. Read on!

Incidentally, this song was not written in February, but is another that I added to the album. I've also made an irreverent Youtube video to accompany it.

Without further ado, here is the song—Geek for Hire—from my upcoming LP, Grass Nap.



Download Geek for Hire now!