Baseball Gregg - Gifts (2018)

How much a band can change in five years? Especially when the band is living 12000 km apart.

Five years is both a short and a long amount of time. Five short years ago in December of 2013, Luca and I (Sam) recorded the first song we ever made together. Even before the concept of Baseball Gregg existed, this first song we recorded had dual citizenship, divided between Italy and America. Since then we have continued each year to make a Christmas song, yet rather than collaborating on the songs together in the same bedroom in Bologna we have worked remotely via the internet.

When I listen to these songs all collected together, each song feels like a journal entry, each song brings back a specific memory, each song is my own little "ghost of christmas past.” I can place these memories in order and really appreciate how much I have changed as an individual, and I hear this personal growth reflected in the growth of our music. When I look at it this way, five years feels like forever. I hope to never stop growing and learning as a human, and I hope to never stop growing as a musician, and in this way, five years feels short. It's just the beginning.

Gifts - six holidays songs by baseball gregg, one written each year from 2013 to 2018, recorded together from two very distant bedrooms. a journey through time following the wandering path the band has followed during these five years.