Artist: Jayme Stone
Hometown: Longmont, Colorado
Song: “Wreckage of the Fall”
Release Date: November 10, 2023
In Their Words: “‘Wreckage of the Fall’ is a fever dream about transformation, mystical experience and emotional healing. I wrote it during a weeklong retreat at the Banff Center of the Arts. It emerged alongside a lot of tears, wild dreams, old wounds and a brief experience of clairvoyance. For a few days, I could see voices coming out my phone. I could feel the exact distance between me and other people in faraway cities like some kind of telepathic Google Earth. The song is full of witchy magic β runes, talismans, pentacles, and crystals. They started appearing and I just followed them.
“‘Wreckage’ is the first in a song cycle Iβm currently calling ‘Anima,’ one the archetypes in Carl Jungβs map of the collective unconscious. I spent three years producing it β the longest Iβve ever worked on a track. There are many layers of guitar, my trusty Juno 106 from the late ’80s, an OB-6 synth and a lot of backup vocals care of Daniela Gesundheit. I programmed the drums in Abelton and then had John Hadfield play a real kit, which I then blended with the programming. The song feels like an MRI of my emotional state at the time. It’s some kind of magic to have a sonic postcard I can share now.” β Jayme Stone
Track Credits: Written by Jayme Stone.
Recorded and produced by Jayme Stone.
Mixed and mastered by David Travers-Smith.
Jayme Stone β voice, guitar, synth, drum programming
Emanuel Alexander β guitar, bass
Daniela Gesundheit β voice
John Hadfield β drums
Greg Harris β synth
Photo Credit: Shervin Lainez
