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Body Memory (Peach Fuzz Version)

by Jess Cornelius

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This is a re-imagining of my 2020 album track Body Memory. I’d started playing the song for myself in a totally different way – on echoey guitar instead of keys, with a dreamy, melancholic mood, and wanted to record it as a sort of ‘part two’. It’s like a new cover of my own song, I guess. When I started recording the demo I ended up capturing all these distant sounds that got all distorted in the process: a nail gun, a baby, police sirens, which I kept in for the final recording. I added harpsichord, synth and drums, and Jarvis Taveniere added bass during the mixing. The rolling toms and shaker in the outro added this new little groove and moved the mood again. To me this almost feels like a new song; 'I was my own woman once' is now less defiant and more reflective, maybe even yearning.

My partner and I filmed the video in the Sequoia National Forest in northern Californian. I had the idea for the visual for a while – this hyper-artificial neon outfit against a lush forest backdrop. I made the dress the night before the shoot, using some high-visibility fabric I’d been given years ago. But when we got out to the forest, about half of the trees were dead – killed off by drought and bark beetles exacerbated by rising temperatures. The video inadvertently became a sort of environmental lament – about a different kind of loss and love.

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released April 29, 2021
Single released April 29, 2021 via Republic of Music (UK/EU) and Crystal Chain.
Recorded by Aaron Stern with additional recording by Jess Cornelius and Jarvis Taveniere. Mixed by Jarvis Taveniere, mastered by Phillip Shaw Bova.
Written and performed by Jess Cornelius, except for bass and mellotron by JT.

Video directed and edited by Jess Cornelius, cinematography by Joseph Hale. Costume design by JC

Full video at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrTg44pZAls

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Jess Cornelius Los Angeles, California

Jess Cornelius writes arresting songs that capture the disorientation and endless possibilities of being in flux. On her sophomore album CARE/TAKING, the New Zealand-raised, Los Angeles-based artist sings of personal upheaval with striking lucidity and emotional nimbleness. ... more

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