HeyJaredZach Sprowls
The music and musings of a book-reading, pipe-smoking, coffee-drinking, film-loving, backpacking, wool-wearing full time music composer. Proudly based in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Spent a few days on a creative retreat (opens the original)
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Life is busy and demanding. For those of us raising young kids and running multiple businesses, even more so. I have to think life has always been this way, but I have a hard time believing that our ancestors felt an existential dread about it like we do today. If it’s not the inability for a family to survive on one income anymore, it’s the societal pressure we feel to always be “productive.”In my own ways, to the degree that I can, I try to live in rebellion to this mentality by force-fitting
My second piano book (opens the original)
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Many of you know that I have a side project called Zach James (my middle name is James). It started around 2020 as recordings of religious music for streaming. I made simple piano solo albums of hymns and worship songs as well as an all-original, fully-produced, word-for-word Scripture song album. It does really well, actually, giving me a small but steady source of revenue every month from streaming royalties.About two years ago, I set up a Shopify online store and started marketing the sheet m
Fire Hydrant Fall (opens the original)
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I was just talking to a friend about creative projects. It seems you make good progress on a project and then it gets shelved for a period of time while you work on something else. You pick it back up only to shelve it again while you wait for feedback or a new piece of gear to arrive. You get buried in something else. By the time you get back to it, a few months have gone by. Now you’re in the weeds of a new project that was originally talked about a year ago. The original project is now on the
I did it. I got the album recorded! (opens the original)
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I’m sitting here, the end of a long week, the start of a new month, feeling a good deal of self-satisfaction. And exhaustion.There were a great many travails getting my new album, The Glass Menagerie, recorded, a few longs days and late nights. I wrote about some of those in my last post. I learned a lot in a short time about myself and about both audio and film production. I’m proud of the process to this point, proud of my perseverance through obstacles that at times felt insurmountable, and p
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