Jeremy Mage
About me
Biel-Bienne, Switzerland
Jeremy Mage is a New Yorker living in Switzerland. He is a songwriter/producer with hundreds of sync credits for film/tv, a multi-instrumentalist (focus on piano). His most recent release is "Pretty Songs about Death".
Mage played B-3 in church and broke his nose in a mosh pit, and then years later he broke it again on a Steinway. In between, he studied with Baba Olatunji, Alan Ginsberg, Fred Frith, Yusef Lateef; learned Raga in Varanasi and clave in Havana. He world-toured with Lizz Wright, Wunmi, and the Easy Star All Stars. He currently teaches jazz piano at the HKB in Switzerland. His influences are a hopeless mix.
Highlights:
-played on Grammy winning album in 2012
-Produced #1 hit "Rainbow" on Sirius Radio family charts with Wunmi.
-Music placed in HBO's "The Night Of", NBC's "Parks and Recreation," ABC's "Black-Ish",
Netflix's "Grace and Frankie" and "Too Hot to Handle", Van Damme's "Six Bullets",Cuba Gooding Junior's "Life of a King", and hundreds more.
Cultural background
Values
Project Music
Bottom Line (I.C.E.)
Migration is a fact of life on our warming planet. And it has become a wedge issue for those that would seek to divide us, resist change, and hold on to an imaginary image of the past. This song talks about why people leave their home country, and demands that all people be treated with dignity and respect at the border! And that humanity not be sacrificed to the "Bottom Line" of profit. Recorded with bassist Michael Olatuja, Abou Diarrassouba on drums, Dave Masucci on the horns, and downtown NYC luminary Oren Bloedow on guitar
- African
- Funk
- Indie Pop
- Singer
- Vocal ensemble
- Electric piano
- Synthesizer
- Bass guitar
- Conga
- Percussion
- Flute
- Saxophone
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Nigeria
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
(Beyond) Doomsday Blues
It seems like such a chaotic, fragile time, with the world in the balance. And people are feeling it; rates of depression and suicide are setting records. Could this be our legacy? In the words of the song, Uh Uh! What if the answer to the shared pain is not to run from it separately but to face it together? That is the proposition of this song. That if we let ourselves face the divisions and scars of our shared global history, we may be able to rise above the doomsday blues, towards our incredible collective potential.
- Alternative
- Blues
- Funk
- Singer
- Vocal ensemble
- Electric piano
- Synthesizer
- Bass guitar
- Drum machine
- Percussion
- Shekere
- Bansuri
- India
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Zimbabwe
Hidden Frequency
Play
- Award Winner
- Album Track
We feel overwhelmed by the social issues of our time. We recognize our ignorance in the complexity of wars both real and cultural, and we want to be strong enough to help the world heal. We feel the first step is to lean into kindness and tune into the source; to open to the hidden frequency, the love and faith that will fortify us spiritually, and help us ride out the storm of social disintegration and upheaval. Josh Meck's Shona verse about generational shift gives another perspective to the theme of new and healing energies.
- Neo-Soul
- R&B / Soul
- World
- Singer
- Vocal ensemble
- Electric piano
- Piano
- Synthesizer
- Clapped hands
- Deerskin drum
- Percussion
- India
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Zimbabwe
Gonna Make it Through
My uncle was in hospital for a heart operation. Waiting for news, I played the Wurli e. piano, singing a prayer that he be delivered by the love that surrounds him. I recorded the groove. I met Josh Meck via Beyond Music, and sent him the Wurli track. He sent back a bubbling afropop groove! We brought in pop stylist Patrick Harbor, and zoomed in on one of the key social issues of our time: The intense isolation caused by our separate bubbles on the net, our absorption in our screens. Our proposed cure is in our song's chorus and outro.
- African
- Pop
- Singer
- Electric piano
- Synthesizer
- Acoustic guitar
- Bass guitar
- Guitar
- Conga
- Drum set
- Percussion
- Switzerland
- United States of America
- Zimbabwe
No submissions for Beyond Music Project Volume 3.
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