We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Haig Gevorgian. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Haig below.

Haig, appreciate you joining us today. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

I recently Just finished an album to be released April 18 of this year. It began as another tunnel vision fueled compilation of songs that had no relativity to each other and a hope to just create the next thing. I had been writing and playing guitar for 23 years at this point and doing it the same way. Little did I know that ever piece of routine and understanding within me as an artist was about to be disassembled.
Beginning in a storage unit size studio in north hollywood, I met with the man who produced and mixed this record. I would love to tell an epic story of incredible feats, but the truth is, he was just a great guy who wanted to make cool music and at the end of the day, just asked me how I was doing. we spent three years working on this record and it truly was just that ordinary in the interactions and process between the two of us.
The real power and meaning was a subtle undertone of every song, every rewrite, every edit, every cut, every failure to play, and every moment of knowing we got it.
The album is titled, “Heavy Is A Place”. While we proceeded to rewrite and scrap songs, I began to unravel the theme of a child in so much pain due to the weight and heaviness of his upbringing. As time went on, the writing helped me see that while each of us is unique in our own experiences, we are all capable of entering the place in life that feels like a portal into all the most difficult feelings in life. This was the first time in my long career of guitar playing and writing that I genuinely honed in on an honest topic that was so personal and uncomfortable. Once I gave in and accepted what we were doing, the songs began to speak back.
From this point on we did not settle for anything less than honesty and intention. I kept telling myself that I wanted it to feel gross and void of victory.
This album inspired me to create a new artist name (Days In Writing) to go under in hopes of creating an open ended place for my honesty and art to become its own entity.
I feel after all these years, I have finally take the first steps on the road I was meant for.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I knew I wanted to play the guitar at the age of 3 years old. My father asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up and as most 3 year olds do, I said a rock star. He asked me again at 4 and once more just before turning 5. When he received the same answer all three times, he went out and bought an electric guitar that was bigger than me. Once i turned 5, we got a me sized guitar and I began lessons.
There was no doubt ever in my mind from the moment that I picked it up that this was meant for me. I practiced everyday and every moment I could. I played till my fingers bled most days as my calluses hadn’t formed yet.
In the recent years and my maturing as an artist, I have come to understand my intention and my fulfillment in music and songwriting. While we all want to be recognized and have the monetary proof of our success in music, I realized that regardless of any outcome, I was still going to write, record, and release music. I know that I will do this till my time is up in this world. There is no condition to this that speaks to fame and fortune. I want to live life as a human first and be present as I try to experience the relationship of emotions and thoughts. I want to develop processing skills that evolve through out my life to understand this humanity. Once I have lived honestly and reflected brutally as my own man, then and only then do I want to pick up a guitar and unravel the music and messages that channel through me. There is a grit to all of this I have always seen, but it took some time to see that the fortitude required comes from the person so that the artist can be free.
Music is untouchable. Our body physically feels its vibrations before our mind can process it. There is brutal honesty in that experience. I believe that humans struggle because emotions are beyond our ability to confine things into our mind. When we immerse ourselves in a great song, we are unburdened for those few minutes as the music feels with us. Almost like having another set of hands to hold the weight of feeling.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

I think something I had to unlearn was that a great song can only be done one way. At the end of the day, a song can exist in so many different ways and genres and on top of that, it can be recorded and produced in different ways. I used to believe there was a right way to do all of this. In the last three years spent on this record, I think I had to unlearn every aspect of songwriting and recording. I wanted to use pristine martin acoustics, but ended up using a broken guitar that sat in a trunk for ten years. I wanted to be in a special studio with all of the best gear, but I recorded this in a storage unit with just enough equipment to capture what we wanted. Most importantly, I wanted to record all of these songs I wrote, but scrapped all of em and only wrote a handful of new ones in a way I have never approached music.
The point is, there is almost an infinite amount of ways to approach a song but none of them matter or have any weight unless it begins in honesty.

Any resources you can share with us that might be helpful to other creatives?

There are a tremendous amount of resources for musicians in this day and age. I see other musicians and myself doing our best to utilize them in the ways that can help us. If I were to speak on any resource, I would say therapy, counseling, or some sort of structured communal activity earlier in my career and life would have been more helpful than anything. Looking back, I realize that the artist is a small part of us that can only live if the human in us is doing well. Seek the things you need to be a great human and the creative outcomes will be unmatched.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daysinwriting?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@DaysInWriting

Image Credits

Jon Demorest : Photographer

Brad Crownover : Photographer