Ghost in The Machine Double LP
Ghost in The Machine Double LP
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A vinyl double LP of Ghost in The Machine, the latest album from Jackie Venson. Some words from the artist:
"Prior to the pandemic, I had racked up opportunities that most musicians would kill for– appearances on network tv spots, high profile tours, highly coveted gigs at festivals like ACL, and on and on. But it was the crash of the pandemic that woke me up to how none of that defines us as artists and it isn't what we should be focusing on with our art. My new album Ghost in the Machine is all about tackling the chaos and confusion of the music industry head on with one simple message: almost everything artists have been told they have to do to “make it” is no longer true and the industry as we know it is dead, but just doesn’t realize it yet, and it’s up to us to release the ghost of creativity lingering inside the machine.
"Prior to the pandemic, I had racked up opportunities that most musicians would kill for– appearances on network tv spots, high profile tours, highly coveted gigs at festivals like ACL, and on and on. But it was the crash of the pandemic that woke me up to how none of that defines us as artists and it isn't what we should be focusing on with our art. My new album Ghost in the Machine is all about tackling the chaos and confusion of the music industry head on with one simple message: almost everything artists have been told they have to do to “make it” is no longer true and the industry as we know it is dead, but just doesn’t realize it yet, and it’s up to us to release the ghost of creativity lingering inside the machine.
From my standpoint, the music industry as we have known it is a corpse held together by evil machinery, and it’s only by relearning how to directly connect with one another that we can free the ghost of art. I want us to be relearning how to be a community, and I want us to release our art from the chains the industry and society have put it in. Let’s get back to letting our art tell us what it wants to be rather than what "tastemakers" or “algorithms” or “gatekeepers” say it should be."
