Trickster
Born from the mythic lineage of jesters, fools, sacred clowns, and digital shapeshifters, Trickster traverses the archetypal terrain where laughter meets insight, where masks fall away to reveal hidden truths. Each track is a facet of that journey—from prehistoric ritual to Renaissance courts, from circus tents to cinema screens, from absurd memes to uncanny algorithms.
This album is a collaboration between human consciousness and generative intelligence—lyrics written with deep poetic intention, paired with music from Suno’s AI engine. Xe22 shapes the tone, instrumentation, harmonic structure, and lyrical tempo, letting the AI respond. In that space, Trickster emerged—not written so much as revealed.
Trickster is not nostalgia. It's a signal. It speaks in the language of paradox, memory, and dream—the very grammar of the Trickster archetype.
John Anderson (Xe22) is a digital native working at the convergence of memory, myth, and machine. His latest work, Trickster, is a sonic ritual shaped through lyrical intention and AI collaboration - drawing on archetypes from sacred jesters to modern-day provocateurs. Anderson's creative process begins not with a chord or a canvas, but a seed: a fragment of story, a gesture of metaphor. From there, he sculpts through intuition and code, using various AI tools as extensions of instinct - dream-engines that reveal what lies beneath the surface. You can experience the album and music videos here, on this website, and sequentially on this YouTube Playlist
Trickster is also available on Apple Music and Spotify
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