the tunnel + the light



an album about finding your freedom and all of the distractions along the way.

it's ok to be messy. the point is to learn and love and care and accept yourself through it. the point is to grow. to find your freedom. to create. to be. 

listen when you feel alone. when you're moving through something big and in need comfort. when you feel yourself start to self destruct. when you're too far gone. when you're ready to lift yourself up and break old patterns. when motivation and inspiration feel like medicine.

Most of all, listen when you wanna vibe out to the human experience. Thanks for being here. 

Written by: Jordan Corey
Produced by: Ryan Aicklen, Jordan Corey 
Feature Producer (try me, feel me, canadian rockies): Danny Thrasher
Keys: Jason Goldstein 
Mix/Master: Rich "Daktyl" Lonbay
Vocal Mix (feel me): Harry Burr
Mix/Master (feel me): Ryan Aicklen, Danny Thrasher 
Album artwork: Robert Tulchin
Album Photography: Amina El Kabbany

the tunnel + the light

All I got is time
And bad news
I lose
Fuck you
All I got is time
But I’m blue
Hit snooze
Diffuse

All I ever wanted was a friend like me
But how can I make nice 
A measured sacrifice
When I’m faulting everybody

I’m too hard
Too tough
I like it rough
Thats not enough
I’m too hard
Hot stuff
Handcuffs
Call your bluff    

I’m trying to set myself free
Turns out, the job is harder than it seems
I’m trying to set some boundaries
But I live in a prison of my own making
Freedom is a mentality
They say heaven, exists for those seeking
Truth above the mundanity 
But damn, is it hard succeeding 

All I got is time
And concrete
Palm trees
Bitch please
All I got is time
My beliefs
The seabreeze
Sunscreen

All I ever wanted was my cup of tea
Loose leaf from the kitchen
Everybody bitchin
And I love to disagree

I’m too much
I’m upset
But don’t sweat
Reset
I’m too much
A threat
Game set
Match, bet

I’m trying to set myself free
Turns out, the job is harder than it seems
I’m trying to set some boundaries
But I live in a prison of my own making
Freedom is a mentality
They say heaven, exists for those seeking
Truth above the mundanity 
But damn, is it hard succeeding 

Written by: Jordan Corey
Produced by: Ryan Aicklen + Jordan Corey
Keys: Jason Goldstein 
Artwork: Robert Tulchin

friend like me

Track written for Dr Pepper One of A Kind Studios x Complex Mag. 

Written By: Jordan Corey & Matthew Ebrahimoon
Produced By: Jordan Corey
Piano: Matthew Ebrahimoon
Drum: Andrew "Smitty" Smith 
Bass: Vincenzo Marranca
In Studio Production: Griffin Rodriguez & Jordan Corey 

The Power (DrPepper x Complex)

You’re like sugar
Sweet, but you’re bad for me
Wanna pour it all over
Don’t care that its so sticky 
I like to be stuck in your mess
Wish I could give it a rest
But I digress
I wanna keep eating even if it makes me depressed

You got that fire
Sweet desire
Whatever you’re selling
I’m the buyer 
You’re addictive 
A live wire 
Dopamine surgin’ 
Amplifier 

O
You got that something close to truth
I’ll do whatever you want to
Damn I should probably get a clue 
But the sugar highs to good to lose

This sugar high
You got me
This sugar high
This sugar high
You got me
You got me
  
In denial
I justify how you’re good to me
Won’t break the cycle
My reward system agrees
I like to be stuck in this mess
Wish I could give it a rest
But I digress
I wanna keep eating even if it makes me depressed

You got that fire
Sweet desire
Whatever you’re selling
I’m the buyer 
You’re addictive 
A live wire 
Dopamine surgin’ 
Amplifier 

O
You got that something close to truth
I’ll do whatever you want to
Damn I should probably get a clue 
But the sugar highs to good to lose
O
You got that something close to truth
I’ll do whatever you want to
Damn I should probably get a clue 
But the sugar highs to good to lose

This sugar high
You got me
This sugar high
This sugar high
You got me
You got me
This sugar high
You got me
This sugar high
This sugar high
You got me
You got me

Hi 


CREDITS: 

Written + Produced by - Jordan Corey
Produced by - Ryan Aicklen + Jordan Corey 
Mix/Master by - Rich Lonbay
Piano/Keys - Jason Goldstein 
Album artwork - Rob Tulchin
Photography - Ethan Gulley

Dopamine - Jordan Corey

RIP Amy Winehouse - what an incredible gift you were.

Production by @IanSloane


Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (Jordan Corey Cover)

Over the past few years Andre has risen to the top of my  "producers-to-work-with" list. ***UPDATE*** Andre and I have a track together, you can listen to "Be" off his latest album EGO. Truth is, it all started with this cover. 

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Production : Jordan Corey
Mixing: Andrew Riddle

Follow @RAC

RAC  ft. Penguin Prison - Hollywood (Jordan Corey Cover)

Do you even like me?
Does it even matter?
I love myself, but
Boy you really try me
With all of your masculine identity crises

I know that I got problems
Sometimes I feed the drama
But lets be real
Can we work on getting better?
Not harping on all the shit we could have done differently 

Take it down
Take it all the way down
It’s clear this doesn’t matter

Take it down
Take it all the way down
It’s a waste of time this pattern

My intentions to be
My best self living free
Erase the split between
Potential and reality

My intentions to be
My best self living free
Erase the split between
Potential and reality

I wanna get out
I wanna grow
Let’s reroute
Won’t do it again
Baby lets grow not fall out

I wanna get out
I wanna grow
Let’s reroute
Won’t do it again
Baby lets grow not fall out

I wanna get out
I wanna grow
Let’s reroute
Won’t do it again
Baby lets grow not fall out

I wanna get out
I wanna grow
Let’s reroute
Won’t do it again
Baby lets grow not fall out

I wanna get out
I wanna grow
Let’s reroute
Won’t do it again
Baby lets grow not fall out

I wanna get out
I wanna grow
Let’s reroute
Won’t do it again
Baby lets grow not fall out

My intentions to be
My best self living free
Erase the split between
Potential and reality


Written by: Jordan Corey
Produced By: Ryan Aicklen, Danny Thrasher, Jordan Corey
Mix and Master: Rich Lonbay
Artwork: Robert Tulchin
Photography: Amina Yasmin

Try Me

This song became my favorite as a kid after someone gave me an Alvin and the Chipmunks CD for my bday. It wasn't until a few years later that I realized this song wasn't about chipmunks in space, but by the legend Sir Elton John. 

Produced by: Jordan Corey with a little help from my friends @ROYLbeats and @CampusPoint
Mixed by: Andrew Riddle 

Rocket Man

How much wine to forget about you?
How much space to scrub myself anew?
If it’s desire you want, desire you get
I’m practically begging, I know I’ll regret it

How much flower to cloud you out?
How many hits, I’m not fooling around 
If it’s desire you want, desire you get
I’m practically begging, I know I’ll regret it

I should go to bed (I should go to bed)
Or write this shit down (or write it down)
Either way, I won’t call (no, I will not call)
Unless you’re around (unless you’re around)

(unless you’re around)

Open enrollment, first three months free
You said you’d show up, but you couldn’t, timing
Here I am now buzzed and alone
With the same boring story I have failed to dethrone 

It’s kinda dumb, obsessing like this
What’s the point? Inspiration I guess
Here I am now buzzed and alone
With the same boring story I have failed to dethrone 

I should go to bed (I should go to bed)
Or write this shit down (or write it down)
Either way, I won’t call (no, I will not call)
Unless you’re around (unless you’re around)

(unless you’re around)

I got this darker side to me
You symbolize release
I got this darker side to me
You symbolize release

I should go to bed (I should go to bed)
Or write this shit down (or write it down)
Either way, I won’t call (no, I will not call)
Unless you’re around (unless you’re around)

(unless you’re around)

How much wine to forget about you?
How much space to scrub myself anew?
If it’s desire you want, desire you get
I’m practically begging, I know I’ll regret it


Written by: Jordan Corey
Produced by: Ryan Aicklen + Jordan Corey
Keys: Jason Goldstein 
Mix and Master by: Rich Lonbay 
Artwork: Robert Tulchin
Photography: Ethan Gulley 

Go To Bed

Third times a charm,
That why you disappeared?
Couldn’t touch the warmth,
Maybe that’s why it’s been years
Maybe that’s why it’s been years
Maybe that’s why 

I been waiting 
Wanna come
Staying up late feeling numb
Check my phone a million times
I can taste the sweet divide

It’s the worst in the morning
I need a hit by the afternoon
Almost forget in the evening
But in the late night you come through

It’s the worst in the morning
I need a hit by the afternoon
Almost forget in the evening
But in the late night you come through
Through
Through

What’s longing
But piles of unsaid thoughts
Stored in memory
Say you up baby hit that spot
Say you up baby hit that spot
Say you up baby hit that

I been waiting 
Wanna come
Staying up late feeling numb
Check my phone a million times
I can taste the sweet divide

It’s the worst in the morning
I need a hit by the afternoon
Almost forget in the evening
But in the late night you come through

It’s the worst in the morning
I need a hit by the afternoon
Almost forget in the evening
But in the late night you come through
Through
Through

It’s the worst in the morning
I need a hit by the afternoon
Almost forget in the evening
But in the late night you come through

It’s the worst in the morning
I need a hit by the afternoon
Almost forget in the evening
But in the late night you come through
Through
Through

Written by: Jordan Corey
Produced by: Jordan Corey + Ryan Aicklen 
Mix + Master: Rich Lonbay
Keys: Jason Goldstein
Artwork: Robert Tulchin


647AM

I been getting up early
Tryna to make plans, make plans
(Tryna make plans)
Focusing all my attention on me, yeah
Focus on me, uh
(Focus on me) 
Normally I talk too much
Normally, normally
(I talk too much)
This time Imma drop that crutch
Imma drop, Imma drop
(Drop that crutch)

Takin’ action, it’s the tip that I been on
Like do the thing before the fear distracts you, gone
It might be bad, but its the baddest of the bad that you can be
Cause you’re tryin’ (you try)

Ooo
Sunset sippin’
Water drippin’ 
Ooo
Big cliff jumpin’
Speed boat bumpin’ 

I been getting up early
Tryna to make plans, make plans
(Tryna make plans)
Focusing all my attention on me, yeah
Focus on me, uh
(Focus on me) 
Normally I talk too much
Normally, normally
(I talk too much)
This time Imma drop that crutch
Imma drop, Imma drop
(Drop that crutch)

Don’t need no favors, got my highest self to lean on
She’s really focused, but can hang ’til the break of dawn
I used to worry, but now I don’t need to worry about a thing
Cause I’m tryin’ (you try)

Ooo
Sunset sippin’
Water drippin’ 
Ooo
Big cliff jumpin’
Speed boat bumpin’ 

I been getting up early
Tryna to make plans, make plans
(Tryna make plans)
Focusing all my attention on me, yeah
Focus on me, uh
(Focus on me) 
Normally I talk too much
Normally, normally
(I talk too much)
This time Imma drop that crutch
Imma drop, Imma drop
(Drop that crutch)
I been getting up early
Tryna to make plans, make plans
(Tryna make plans)
Focusing all my attention on me, yeah
Focus on me, uh
(Focus on me) 
Normally I talk too much
Normally, normally
(I talk too much)
This time Imma drop that crutch
Imma drop, Imma drop
(Drop that crutch)

CREDITS:

Written by: Jordan Corey
Produced by: Ryan Aicklen + Jordan Corey
Mix // Master: Rich Lonbay
Keys: Jason Goldstein 

Do The Thing

Focus 

Every moment, focus on it
On the breathe thats fillin’ up your lungs
Fill your lungs
Now you know it, can you taste it?
Taste the life thats dripping on your tongue 
Is your life unsung?

Focus on the past and you’ll forget the life you have
Don’t get lost in it
Are you lost in it?
Focus on the future you will never get there sooner
Don’t get lost in it
Are you lost in it?

Be here in this moment put your mind at bay
Peace will be attained if you stay
Be here in this moment let your thoughts fray 
Peace will be attained if you stay

Do you want it? Do you need it?
Time’s nonsense worrying your brain
Do you gain?
So you lived it, now lets shift it
Can you feel your mind grow strangely sane?
Are you sane?


Focus on the past and you’ll forget the life you have
Don’t get lost in it
Are you lost in it?
Focus on the future you will never get there sooner
Don’t get lost in it
Are you lost in it?

Be here in this moment put your mind at bay
Peace will be attained if you stay
Be here in this moment let your thoughts fray 
Peace will be attained if you stay

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Written by: Jordan Corey
Produced by: Ian Sloane, Jordan Corey 
Mixing Engineer: Twin Peaks Studios

Art Direction: Jordan Corey and Robert Tulchin
Single Artwork: Carrillo + Decoux

***also available on Bandcamp: https://jordancorey.bandcamp.com/

Official Music Video:
https://vimeo.com/136585279

Premiere on AXS: http://www.axs.com/news/first-look-jordan-corey-s-focus-official-music-video-premiere-63981

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the tunnel + the light

an album about finding your freedom and all of the distractions along the way. it's ok to be messy. the point is to learn and love and care and accept yourself through it. the point is to grow. to find your freedom. to create. to be. 

listen when you feel alone. when you're moving through something big and in need comfort. when you feel yourself start to self destruct. when you're too far gone. when you're ready to lift yourself up and break old patterns. when motivation and inspiration feel like medicine.

Most of all, listen when you wanna vibe out to the human experience. Thanks for being here. 

Written by: Jordan Corey
Produced by: Ryan Aicklen, Jordan Corey 
Feature Producer (try me, feel me, canadian rockies): Danny Thrasher
Keys: Jason Goldstein 
Mix/Master: Rich "Daktyl" Lonbay
Vocal Mix (feel me): Harry Burris
Mix/Master (feel me): Ryan Aicklen, Danny Thrasher 
Album artwork: Robert Tulchin
Album Photography: Amina El Kabbany 

canadian rockies

dopamine

earthbound

feel me

go to bed

somethin somethin

do the thing

try me

the story

Your Shore 

So when I’m listening in the car on my way home I’m happy… 

If I wrote to you, I would write a song 
I would bounce it like a wave and ride along 
To your shore (to your shore) 
To your shore (to your shore) 

Darling you’re the one for me 
I want everything you need 
This is not just momentary 
We are space its planetary 
You are one and I am all 
Take my hand so you won’t fall 
Remember this is the truth 
Love is light and let it rule 

If I thought of you, I would think in verse 
I’d recite it like a poem, always rehearse 
To your prose (to your prose) 
To your prose (to your prose) 

You are in all of my dreams 
Makin up my fantasies 
This is not just momentary, 
We are one, not binary 
I am smooth and you are brawn 
Balancing so we grow strong 
Remember this is the truth 
Love is light and let it rule 

If I wrote to you, I would write a song 
I would bounce it like a wave and ride along 
To your shore (to your shore) 
If I thought of you, I would think in verse 
I’d recite it like a poem, always rehearse 
To your prose (to your prose) 

Darling you’re the one for me 
I want everything you need 
This is not just momentary 
We are space its planetary 
You are in all of my dreams 
Makin up my fantasies 
This is not just momentary, 
We are one, not binary 

You are one and I am all 
Take my hand so you won’t fall 
Remember this is the truth 
Love is light and let it rule

Written by: Jordan Corey 
Produced by: Ian Sloane, Jordan Corey 
Saxophone: Mike Eyia
Guitar: Travis Raab
Mix/Master: Twin Peaks Studio 



Your Shore

All That 

Mmmm fresh out the box 
Stop, look and watch 
Ready yet? Get Set 
It’s All That 

O, This is All That 
All That 
O, This is All That 
All That 

Everything we do (its all that) 
We’re entertaining you (its all that) 
My posse and my crew (its all that) 
So sit still cause we’re comin’ right back 
Mmm Mmmm 

O, This is All That 
All That 
O, This is All That 
All That

Preformed by: Jordan Corey 
Produced by: Ian Sloane, Jordan Corey 
Mix/Master: Twin Peaks Studio 


All That

From the short film "Imagination" by PermaGrin Films. Watch here: https://youtu.be/qB8Aqpt93O4

Preformed by: Jordan Corey
Produced by: @IanSloane and Jordan Corey
Mix/Master: Twin Peaks Studios

Photography by: Carrillo + Decoux

Imagination

Produced & Performed by: Jordan Corey 
Mixed by: Andrew Riddle 

Originally performed by: La Bouche, 1995 

Lover

“Seen” is about personal power, learning to self validate and breaking the fuck free.
-
Sometimes I wonder how I ever fell in love with you
My identity became all of the things you do
And whats a girl gotta do out here to be seen?
Is this a partnership if I'm not me?

Lets go deeper now
Can we love ourselves?
Lets go deeper now
Can we love ourselves?

You are the
The best thing
That I've ever known 
(C'mon sing it)
I am the
The best thing
That I've ever known
(Mhm)

Now I know that men aren't inherently mean
They don't understand centuries of insecurity
And is it up to them to tell us our worth?
We know our power, its proven in birth

Lets go deeper now
Can we love ourselves?
Lets go deeper now
Can we love ourselves?

You are the
The best thing
That I've ever known 
(C'mon sing it)
I am the
The best thing
That I've ever known
(Now to somebody else)
You are the
The best thing
That I've ever known
(One more time for you)
I am the
The best thing
That I've ever known

Lets go deeper now
(Mhm)
-

Written by: me
Produced by: me + Scully
Mix + Master by: Andrew Maury
Trumpet: Gabe Steiner
Sax: Alekos Syropolous
Trombone: Erik Hughs

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