DOWN COME THE WALLS is a heart-opening album about personal transformation and removing barriers to authenticity. It’s also about the political walls of our time. “We started recording the day after the last presidential election, so it was an intense moment,” reveals singer/songwriter Jai-Jagdeesh. “I had that vulnerable feeling we all had, where you’re shocked or in a state of disbelief, but processing.”

Jagdeesh’s voice is melancholy and passionate on this third studio album of songs about love and loss. The tune “Hold Your Hand” was inspired by poems of Rabia of Basra from the book Love Poems from God (Daniel Ladinsky, 2002). “Midway through the poems I found myself sitting down to the harmonium and these were the words that popped out,” she told S&H. “It was this love letter from the divine to the humans, saying, No matter what you do, whether you believe in me or not, whether you pray to me or hate me, I will hold you. It’s what I would love to hear whispered in my ear while I meditate, to be reminded that no matter how often I may stumble, there is an energy into which I can collapse.”