For Serious Artists Who Draw From Jazz, R&B, Hip-Hop & Beyond
Create Music That Embodies Your Vision
If your recordings don't capture what you hear in your head yet, let's change that.
The Gap Between the Vision and the Record
Have you ever heard the most amazing musical ideas in your head, but something gets lost in the process of capturing them?
- Instruments clash instead of building a cohesive feeling
- Creative risks don’t land—either too safe or too bold
- Your artistic identity gets washed out by choices that seemed fine individually
This happens when songwriting, performance, and production are treated as separate processes instead of one unified creative journey.
Production That Protects Your Vision
Hey, I’m C. Jordan Alexander, but you can call me CJ! I integrate songwriting, performance, and production from the start so every decision serves the same emotional purpose.
Two ways we work together:
- Full Production Partnership — We collaborate hands-on throughout
- Advisory Creative Direction — You execute, I guide from outside perspective
The result is the same: music that sounds distinctly like you and connects with hearts and minds.
How I Work Differently
Design-Oriented Writing and Creative Direction
Establishes cohesive purpose that informs the rest of the creative process
Director's Approach to Capturing Performances
Draws out the emotional authenticity and expressive power of your performances
Painterly Production and Engineering
Treats every sound as a carefully selected color in your record
Challenges I'm Built to Solve
Artists come to me for help with three complex creative blocks—challenges where thoughtful process, musical depth, and precision transform struggle into breakthrough.
Challenge 1: Instrumental choices clash instead of building a cohesive feeling.
The Problem: Your instruments, composition, and arrangement fight each other instead of working together so songs sound disconnected or emotionally flat.
My Solution: I develop arrangements where every instrument serves the same emotional goal—tone, texture, and structure all support each other naturally.
The Result: Cohesive, impactful music that can be expansively lifelike or tastefully uncanny.
Challenge 2: Fear of being too weird or too normal leaves you safely forgettable.
The Problem: Playing it safe makes your music blend in; being too complex makes it hard to connect with. You're stuck between boring and inaccessible.
My Solution: I help you take bold creative risks that actually land. I push to explore and pull back where needed, so your ideas land with immediate impact while maintaining their richness.
The Result: Music that stands out and connects, with both substance and impact.
Challenge 3: Individual choices collectively erase your artistic identity.
The Problem: Creative decisions that can sound good and make sense when isolated, but together they wash out what makes you sound like you.
My Solution: I make sure your choices reinforce who you are across writing, performance, and production which guards your artistic identity without limiting creativity
The Result: A record where your voice remains unmistakably yours throughout.
How To Get Started
Step 1. Book A Free Audit
We analyze your vision and current project to show you what's possible.
Step 2. Get Holistic Support
I guide your project with holistic direction across the entire creation process.
Step 3. Fullfil Your Vision
You walk away with music that embodies your vision and crafted to last.
Meet CJ
Hey, I’m CJ Alexander—I’m an alternative Jazz producer and the owner of Aural Alchemists. I help soulful, genre-fluid artists make music that connects with hearts and minds. Specifically, artists drawing from Jazz, R&B, Hip-Hop, and beyond who are making music that doesn’t fit in one box.
I came up studying Jazz composition and recording arts at Northern Illinois University. Since 2017, I’ve been producing, writing, and engineering everything—DIY recordings in living rooms, professional sessions at Gravity Studios in Chicago, producing 50+ live videos as musical director for Midwest Music Deposit, touring internationally.
I’ve walked miles in the artist’s shoes. 15+ years as a musician, played with rappers, singers, bands—I know how taxing and rewarding this journey is.
Here’s what drives this work: I’m obsessed with how sound transforms into feeling. Music is supposed to move people—create those magical moments that connect on a spiritual level.
That’s why I believe a good song is more than organized sounds. It’s instant, visceral emotional communication. Every lyric, every melody, every sonic choice matters. Music that stands the test of time connects intellectually AND emotionally—not one or the other.
My approach is holistic. I can’t separate songwriting from production from mixing—it’s all connected. That’s what my Jazz training taught me. Everything serves the same emotional vision.
Working together is high-energy, direct, and honest. I’ll challenge you. I’ll push back when something could be stronger. This isn’t gentle validation—it’s real creative partnership where we’re both fully engaged toward your best work. The atmosphere stays inspiring and fun, but we hold ourselves to rigorous standards.
I work with serious artists who value craft and won’t compromise vision for polish or edge for cohesion. If you’re making music that blends influences and refuses easy categorization—if you care about substance, not just surface appeal—we should talk.
I offer three ways to work together: Full Production for complete projects from songwriting to final mix. Song Audits for focused feedback on individual tracks. And Advisory for strategic guidance on your music and career.
The best place to start? Book a Song Audit. One session, real feedback on where your material is and what it needs next.
Explore the services below or book your Song Audit. Let’s make music that sounds like you and connects with people.
Why Artists Trust Me
Chairman Allen
@chairman__allen
"Working with CJ has been one of the biggest absolute pleasures as a musician thus far. Not only his understanding for what a song should sound like but how a song is composed all together! I’ve brought CJ multiple sets of music and to my surprise he completely changed the sound without changing the song. It’s beyond talent, this is passion, practice, and persistence at its finest. Overall 6 out of 5 stars."
Alscoop
@al.scoop
"Working with CJ was enriching... he brought creative direction, honest feedback, and a professional perspective that helped level up my vision. What stood out most was the energy he brought to every session and his ability to take my ideas to a higher level. I’d recommend him to any artist looking for someone who not only understands the craft but also pushes you to grow and bring out your best."
If You're Ready to Create Music That Fully Embodies Your Vision
If you’re done settling for recordings that don’t capture what you hear in your head, let’s start the conversation.