Jessica Dye ~ guitar, vocals
Rachel Miller~ strings/harmonies
Harold and Kermit~ Banjo
Maude~ freedom
Influences
life. the universe. the unknown. spirituality. embodiment. love. Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley,
billy corgan. jeremy enigk. bjork. Radiohead,depeche mode, dead can dance, Paul Simon, tori amos. mia doi todd.jose gonzalez. mazzy.trespassers william. tool. the cure. brian eno. lots..........................................................." her music was incredible...reminds me of long hot summer days when everything makes sense and one is filled with peace.........the sky is deep blue,animal ones and beauty near............when life is so easy to breathe..................."
Sounds Like
me/her/she
a rainy day. souls colliding, leaves turning gold, morning, an afternoon kiss, warm hands holding eachother, thunder in the mountains, a rainbow forming, clouds dispersing, love being felt, eyes shutting into dreams, an owl, the moon, oceans at midnight, a desire to change, floating,dancing by yourself, breathing in, sighing out, a missed note, a found story, eyes that smile, courage, mist on pastures, hearts melting, children laughing, transformation, meditation, beyond coming and going, a whisper, a lull, a fever, a crash, nocturnal flowers, sunshine on your pillow, a lover at dawn. being awake. dreaming. alive.
a nice Review:by Brad Burkley
Those of us who make music might wish to be in the place where someone is enjoying our songs somehow, as the "it's great, it's great" is great, but gets old, and tells us nothing really about how our music is going out into the world.
By odd chance I came by this album. I picked up an old friend at the Orlando airport and then we stayed the night in O-town together. I took her home to Gainesville, but first we drove through Deland on a nostalgia tour. There, after lunch, in a little store on Woodland Blvd., near where I used to play my first songs at a place called Cafe Da Vinci, we walked into a record store. Among the things we bought was Sacred Code by Jessica Dye. On the way home we listened to the new Cure album, Future Bible Heroes, Stereolab, Isidore, and the Lost In Translation soundtrack.
We also played Sacred Code. My friend was a little aggravated. She bought this CD by mistake, thinking it was something else. A name and memory mishap. We realized this as the first song played, after we were far up the road, a distance too far to think of going back, way out in the countryside, on a holiday weekend with summer heat building storm cloud mountains and with bikers and fishing boats passing like fire trucks.
By the time Dark Rhythms came on we had become silent. All the chatter we enjoyed had stopped. We were enjoying something else, Dye’s music for the first time. Storms can be like magic, and it came down in a trick of buckets like rabbits, cats, and dogs, right out of the big hat upstairs. The music was perfect for this as we had to pull over for a short while. We had little words to say at this point, as feelings spoke without them, but our conversation drifted to times gone, to intimacies lost and found, and of a future in love, with or without. Sacred Code was there for this.
I love this music. I love music, but I really love this music. For those who need comparisons, think Shoegazing but all grown up, and with the distortion pedal removed. Think Hex, only years later and moving forward. Think Mazzy Starr but with promise instead of dread. There’s something a little Celtic here too, but warmer and easier to consume without becoming liquid. My friend on this day, who has impeccable taste in music I would say, loved the Code too. Odd how the little mistake of a name mix-up led to a charm in the highway strip and a serendipity unexpected as it is by nature, The Sacred Code
Thank you for listening..Mantle is now available for download at itunes. A blend of songs recorded over the last 2 years by myself and Monica Rabino. To purchase a hard copy please feel free to contact me. I will be performing these songs live with a new project that is in the works so please check back for details. I am now beginning the process of my next album. Look for upcoming shows here....
"Oh, music is the meat of all who love. Music uplifts the soul to realms above. The ashes
glow, the latent fires increase. We listen and are fed with joy and peace."
Mawlawi Rumi-
"I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious
harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty."
-Pablo Neruda
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And like a dying star is every work of your virtue: its light is always still on its
way and it wanders- and when will it no longer be on its way? and thus the light of your virtue is still on its way even when the work has been done. Though it be forgotten and dead, the ray of its light still lives and wanders. that your virtue is your self and not something foreign, a skin, a cloak, that is the truth from the foundation of your souls, you who are virtuous.
Friedrich Nietzsche~
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'If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of
the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to
break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold
ever-more wonders."
Andrew Harvey
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a review:
Jessica Dye's music extends beyond this planet. It is the first music ever to be transmitted into outer space. It would take the mystics a million more years to figure out the melodic wave patterns you need to achieve in order to blast your message far beyond the celestial bodies and into the outer reaches where sonic clarity is an actual place.
You only have to listen once to believe. I can remember this. I was driving in my car, listening to Jessica's latest CD entitled, "Sacred Code." I came to a railroad track just as the song, "Dark Rhythms," began to play. The bells started to ring and the gates came down as if there was a train coming, but there was no train. Instead, the sonic textures, swells, acoustic guitars playing succulent chords behind a crystalline voice, made it seem as though there was a space craft with blinking lights desceneding upon me, and i was transported into some strange land where there are no such things as loud, obnoxious trains.
Songs like, "Something Beautiful," and "Undone," are instant souveniers that you will want to share with your alien friends. Make sure to sample some of the songs.... and as you do, make sure your schedule is clear.
Maybe I'll see ya out there.
-joshua
Thank you for the kind words, Jessica! I'm very glad you have enjoyed it and I would love it if you sent out a copy of your album to me. I just listened to clips of it on Itunes and it sounds great!
She still over there, huh. I loved that little house. Maybe the next time you come down, you can invite me over, and we could have that for dinner. Stay beautiful. Love you too...
So out of the blue I was thinking of your mothers beef stroganoff. YUM! I came across some old photos of you, me and Melissa from the night we went down to your mothers at the beach and had that for dinner. lol. How are you? I am so proud of you!
Hello cousin! I love that song Mantle. It's so beautiful! Keep up the good work. Hopefully I will see you one day in Miami when you come down to visit for the holidays. Love ya.
your number 1 fan love your music good job on the Nuggets theme song and as a judge at the talent show love to hang out with you more your pal Turbo...
jessica, beautiful performance the other night. it was a treasure listening to you sing your truth, your poetry, your passion. you made the blizzard such a wonder for all of us who were lucky enough to be there. thank you, beauty. you sounded stellar : )
SIMPLY AMAZING! I CAN REMEMBER SITTING ON YOUR PORCH TEACHING YOU SOME BASIC CHORDS, I THINK IT WAS FOR WILD HORSES, SUNDAYS VERSION OF COURSE. YOU BLOW ME AWAY! HOPE EVERYTHING IS GOOD. I SAW TYLER THE OTHER DAY AND THOUGHT ABOUT YOU... WANTED TO SAY HELLO.
