Maejor made a name for himself in the music industry by working with artists such as J. Cole, Juicy J, and Justin Bieber. But he’s now entered the world of long-form podcasting.
His first Audible podcast “Maejor Frequency” was named Adweek’s 2022 Podcast of the Year and one of Variety’s Best New Podcasts of 2022.
He follows with “Psychedelic Frequency.”
The podcast is a deeply personal exploration of the psychedelic experience from the POV of a bevy of recording artists who share their life-altering experiences with Maejor, including Jim James from My Morning Jacket, Belly, Nathaniel Raitliff, Dead and Company bassist Oteil Burbridge, as well as Coldplay producer Jon Hopkins. The series also features its own playlist of original music tuned to the frequency of specific psychedelics by Maejor, the recording artist Bi-Polar Sunshine, and Jared Gutstadt.
I want to first talk about the first audible project that kind of explores how sound and music can heal. What inspired it?
I got introduced to that concept from the spiritual and yoga community. But then I got diagnosed with cancer. And to me becoming a cancer survivor, a lot of people started sharing with me alternative forms of wellness and healing. Some of them I couldn’t resonate with, but some of the things that I found particularly fascinating were things related to sound science from a spiritual perspective. I was already producing music that was reaching a large audience. So I was like, wow, there’s a connection in the sounds, particularly things like binaural beats, which affect your brainwaves. When we’re in high beta state, it can change your brainwaves to the states to listening to these different frequencies. And I started learning about monks mantra, which was really specific frequencies to put them in certain states of consciousness to the repetition. It was cool in the sense of experience of going through a health challenge to actually introduced me to a lot of things that I probably wouldn’t have come across.
Why was it important for you to to tell this new story?
We noticed the connection with music and psychedelics and wellness. And a lot of people are kind of taking these journeys and wanting to give people a safe space, place to understand history to get to information, ways to you know, potentially enhance their experience and make it a better journey for them. People struggle with things like PTSD, depression, you know, anxiety, all these things that we all deal. We talk with artists and creatives about psychedelics and their experiences, how it shapes how they view the world. I think that intention plays an important part in the experience.
How do you want this to educate the public?
I think this is perfect for someone who’s curious about it, who doesn’t really understand it and wants to know history and the legal ramifications. So it really gives you a framework from a broad perspective of where psychedelics are today where they started, and then where they’re going. Then music acts kind of like as another therapist and how it plays a role in the experience.
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