Nick Jaina – Credo
Musicians are perhaps the only artists who have to live with their old work night after night. No matter how much they want to move on, they have old songs that do the job better than anything new. Better then to make every song a credo, something that you can stand behind every night, something you truly believe, regardless of how many times you sing it.
Nick Jaina started recording CREDO in November of 2019 at Fluff and Gravy Studios in Portland. Nick had been living mostly in his car, and then hit a cow with his car in Utah, and was without any possessions. He used the instruments in the studio to piece together these songs, one by one, testing mics, trying guitar pedals. Then a flood hit the studio and a pandemic hit the world, and Nick was in his home with no one else around the finish the job. “Take the guitar solo myself? Well, okay, if I must!”
He arrived at CREDO, an album and a statement of belief. None of the instruments are vying for attention because they are all nodes of the same beast. As are we all, fighting and laughing in separateness until we remember we’re all one. This we believe. This is our credo.
CREDO will be available on 5/21 via Fluff and Gravy Records on vinyl and as a digital download. The record will be released in streaming formats later in the Fall.
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Nick Jaina learned “Smells Like Teen Spirit” at his first guitar lesson. A few days later, before the second guitar lesson, Kurt Cobain killed himself. The rest of Nick’s life he has wondered if you can hold that much power in a song and not be burnt by it. Nick is interested in merging the depth of philosophical yearnings with pleasant melodies and sonic textures. Nick has released several albums on Fluff & Gravy Records and Hush Records over the last decade. He is also a writer of prose, nominated for an Oregon Book Award for his memoir Get It While You Can. He has composed music for dances with New York City Ballet, written music for feature films and documentaries, and traveled the world to support his vision.