Tropicali Records and acclaimed Kaua’i/Los Angeles-based songwriter Courtney Jaye are pleased to announce Hymns and Hallelucinations, the highly anticipated and ambitious new album with accompanying full-length album visual that Jaye calls “an introspective, meditative, psychedelic exploration into the soul of a woman: her rage, her confusion, her sadness, her sexuality, her defiance, her darkness, her strength and her light.” Like the album, the Joshua Shoemaker-directed film is the story of a woman “discovering the deepest parts of herself as she faces her fears head-on, evolving along the way and becoming illuminated to the Ultimate Power behind it all,” as Jaye states.  

Jaye found the courage to make Hymns and Hallelucinations from her old friend, the late “Ikey” Owens, a Grammy-winning keyboardist for The Mars Volta. When she had doubts about making a “gospel” record, Owens encouraged her to take the risk and even offered to produce. He passed away unexpectedly shortly thereafter, and she knew she had to finish this record in his honor. Producing the album herself, Jaye is accompanied by the support and guidance of the album’s musical director William Tyler (Merge Records), Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs), Loney John Hutchins, Luke Schneider (Third Man Records), Mikaela Davis (Rounder Records), and mixed by the genius of Tucker Martine.

Hymns and Hallelucinations, a body of work dedicated to the memory of Randolph Isaiah “Ikey” Owens, available via Tropicali Records on Friday, May 20.

April 20, 2022: Release of “The Death”, part three of the four-part Hymns and Hallelucinations companion short film, Video Trip

March 29, 2022: Release of “The Journey”, part two of the four-part Hymns and Hallelucinations companion short film, Video Trip