I WISH YOU JOY: MXTX (2022)
The first track Jane Claire has ever single-handedly composed, written and produced, “I Wish You Joy,” was recorded in collaboration with a symphony for MXTX—a compilation album featuring tracks by 13 other producers and DJs from Austin and Mexico City.
The global premiere and cross-national collaboration debuted live with a mixed chamber ensemble at Moody Amphitheater during Fusebox Festival in Austin, Texas.
“I wrote I Wish You Joy like one of my South Texas grandmother’s lucid, nighttime prayers. Delivered with lipsticked whispers and the sweet smells of potpourri on a nightstand. It’s a practice in self-soothing, mundane whimsy and finding the hope to sing lullabies—to ourselves and to each other.”
MXTX: A Cross Border Exchange (out on Six Degrees Records) embraces a hybrid musical approach that empowers artists to collaborate across artistic, cultural, geographic, and political lines. This dynamic album is a collaboration of numerous Texas- and Mexico-based artists, including:
Golden Hornet, an Austin-based non-profit led by Graham Reynolds
Orión García, founder of the Latinx DJ/producer/artist collective, Peligrosa
Coka Treviño, art entrepreneur from Monterrey, Mexico and founder of the The Projecto
Felipe Pérez Santiago, highly-acclaimed Mexico City composer, sound artist and current artist in residence at California’s SETI Institute
Ramón Amezcua “Bostich” of the groundbreaking Nortec Collective, based in Tijuana
Rubén Albarrán, renowned vocalist and activist from Mexico City, lead singer of the legendary Cafe Tacvba
Gabriela Ortiz, Latin Grammy nominated composer and recipient of Mexico’s National Prize for Arts & Literature
13 cross-border composers, sound artists & producers: Alex E. Chávez, Alina Hernandez Maldonado, Bragglights, Dario Valderrama, Felipe Pérez Santiago, Gabriela Ortiz, Graham Reynolds, Jane Claire, Microhm, Orión García, Ramón Amezcua "Bostich", Rubén Albarrán, Susie Ibarra, and Yvonne Goodwyne
GULF COAST SUN MEDITATION (2021)
Soft sounds emanate from the southernmost shores of a Texas pandemic hellscape.
Five minutes long, this single track features original beats and mixes by Jane Claire, sourcing found sounds from Golden Hornet’s MXTX Sample Library.
Featured Texas- and Mexico-based sound composers include harpist Henna Chou, sound artist Natalia Rocafuerte, world-renowned composer and pianist Graham Reynolds and electronic Afro-Latin artist Paulina Sotomayor.
SOUR GRAPEFRUIT EP (2019)
Jane Claire’s first EP, sour grapefruit, was released on the label Insect Records in February 2019, comprising both music and the written word.
The EP’s four tracks are an electronic, lo-fi ode to gently outliving one’s exes, produced in collaboration with Texas-based electronic musicians and beat-makers from the iconic Exploded Drawing series: Butcher Bear (co-creator of Exploded Drawing and owner of Insect Records), Kinder, Reaganometry and Out Of Place.
sour grapefruit’s accompanying poetry book is a collection of mostly mean poems about ex-lovers, ex-friends and ex-selves.