Where powerful vocals meet emotive cinematic grandeur
In 2020, as the world came to a stop, Australian singer-songwriter JVMIE (Jamie Lee Wilson) was stranded on the Gold Coast, Queensland — cut off from the Los Angeles music scene she'd called home for years. Across the Pacific, Marseille-born, LA-based film composer lionel Cohen was navigating the same strangeness in Hollywood.
What emerged from that shared uncertainty was something no one planned: nine deeply cinematic pop songs built entirely at distance — JVMIE's voice carried in files across time zones, lionel's orchestrations expanding around her in real time. JVMIE was awarded a mini-grant from HOTA's Rage Against The Virus Fund specifically to create the record — a recognition that the project was something genuinely significant.
The songs span grief, defiance, resilience, and survival. They feel like the emotional interior of a film you've never seen but feel like you already know. Raw, beautiful, and deeply human.
"A 007 cinematic fierceness is there, but also a lot of jazz and trip-hop feelings — a hauntingly beautiful and powerful voice, and a lot of intensity on the sea of beats, drums, and guitars."— Where The Music Meets
Born on Australia's Gold Coast, Jamie Lee Wilson earned a Bachelor of Music (Jazz Voice) from the Queensland Conservatorium before relocating to London, then Los Angeles. She has landed multiple Billboard chart hits including a No. 2 on the Billboard Club Dance Chart, charted on ARIA, iTunes Dance, and Beatport globally, and performed at Pacha Ibiza, Creamfields, and The Groove Cruise. Fully independent, she has collaborated with Grammy-winning producers and released music on Universal, Spinnin' Records, and Dim Mak. Featured by Triple J Unearthed in Australia.
Born in Marseille, raised in Montreal and New York, lionel has spent 30+ years composing across film, television, and recording. He has scored films for Sony Pictures, Saban Films, Lionsgate, and Gravitas Ventures — including First We Take Brooklyn (Harvey Keitel), Mob Town (David Arquette), and The Engineer (Emile Hirsch), which won Best Score at the Mammoth Film Festival. With over 500 IMDb credits and millions of Spotify streams, he is among independent cinema's most prolific composers. Commissioned by This American Life.
"Fuck This Mess" was selected as the end credits song for the 2025 crime thriller The Perfect Gamble, directed by Danny A. Abeckaser. The film — starring David Arquette, Daniella Pick Tarantino, and Abeckaser himself — follows two ex-convicts who open an illegal casino in Georgia and get entangled with the mafia, distributed theatrically by Saban Films.
lionel Cohen also composed the film's entire original score, released by dna-productions on all major streaming platforms. The placement cements what was always true about the JVMIE + lionel project: this is music written to feel like a film. All the music in the film was personally praised by Quentin Tarantino.
"This is a track with all the letters and all the feelings. We cannot find many new projects with such a distinct sonority — the mixed approach between classical and fiercely modern sounds like a masterpiece."Where The Music Meets
"A 007 cinematic fierceness — hauntingly beautiful and powerful. The sea of beats, drums, and guitars creates something that is genuinely new and impossible to categorise."Where The Music Meets · on "Fuck This Mess"
"Out of the chaos of quarantine came something beautiful — music that captures the feeling of being alive in uncertain times."JVMIE + lionel Cohen
