We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Crusasis a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Crusasis, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

The process of making stuff always changes based on mood and mindset. Sometimes its a focused approach and I work hard and ‘try’. Sometimes I’d rather give up but say ‘f*** it’ and make something just for fun. Either way, no matter the polar opposite mindset, something is created and it is equal. Sometimes the creation is an ‘exercise’ but is actually heard by people and liked. Anything created is rarely what it seems to be. A 3 minute song written in 3 minutes holds the same ground as a 3 minute song that took 3 years to write and release. It’s all a crap shoot and means as much as you want it to mean. And it means as much as an audience wants it to mean, but they also have the power of pursuasion. Fun is meaning, the more fun the project is the more meaningful it is.

Crusasis, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I’ve been a musician since I was a kid, and since highschool have been playing in bands. I’m kind of an ugly duck with music, its a position I sometimes begrudgingly accept. I write and release things that are more like imperfect diary enteries then well produced albums. There is a realness somewhere in it. The recordings are not radio friendly. I see my strengths in music more as a composer then a player. I’m a writer, and I’m ok at the instruments, but the way I put parts together is a bit strange and complex. When the band learns to play the stuff, theres always some head scratcher parts, but its not because its technical music; it’s something weird about the timing or a counter rhythm or various other things.

I used to make money in music as a film scorer, studio session guy, cover band performer, performing for a theater troop. But I’d rather work construction and make music that is true to me, which makes me almost no money.

Have you ever had to pivot?

I left brooklyn in 2018 after 6 years there playing music. I put my stuff in a storage unit and went to Alaska to work for a summer. I traveled all over from 2018-2020, all over the states, all over aisa out of a backpack. I put my passion for music on hold, in order to live out other dreams I couldn’t do while keeping a band together. Mainly living in other places and exploring autonomously backpacking, just living, not as an artist.

In 2020 I settled down and wrote 60 songs or so during the pandemic. I am still releasing them slowly, but this week I released 2 dozen of the songs under the album title Suckers.

2021-2023 I kept traveling. Music has not been a complete focus since 2018, but it was not fun anymore in 2018. Now its a bit more fun, even though I lost a lot of momentum and connections from back then. Oh well.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

I want to make something great one day. I have seeds that could be redwoods, that could be orchids. I have seeds that would create a weird sci-fi psychedelic forest. I don’t know how to bring em from where they’re at to nurture them more, so they stay stunted. Or they’re fine and the only reason I feel that way is just because the stuff isn’t recognized well. I have no idea. I have no objective opinion of myself unfortunately, it’s probably all a bit embarassing, but I wouldn’t know.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2d8Ozg4F4hv5IeRfaG4JP6?si=31XUq8EHSo2-tUKGB7mc-Q
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crusasismusic
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtV9OOxelh4

Image Credits
Susan Hunt