Two and a half months ago, I wrote1 Jasmine Myra has recorded a new album that will be released in a few months' time (15 May 2026)! Over the past 12 months, there has been silence from her camp and I seriously wondered whether she was continuing with music. As I expected, there was a letter in my mailbox on May 15 giving me access to her new album, "Where light settles", so that I could download it in mp3 format.
I put the songs on continous play via the computer and have been listening to them as I work and read. And ... I don't know what to write. On a visceral level, I don't enjoy listening to this as much as I did the earlier work. I've been trying to figure out what the problem is, and I think that it's because the disc is less of a group performance this time. Drums, for example, are rarely heard. There also don't seem to be tunes that can be recognised as such but rather a collection of notes.
There is much less guiter and fewer harp arpeggios; the piano takes an even more dominant role that it had in the past (eg the opener, 'Opening' seems to be solo piano). There is more flute than bass clarinet.
I think that my conclusion has to be: if these were the first tunes that I heard from Jasmine Myra then I wouldn't have been so enthusiastic about her work as I was when I first heard her.
Strangely, 'the new piece that does not as yet have a name but was influenced by Kenny Wheeler' that was played in Zurich, October 20242 does not appear here.
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[1] 2083
[2] 1876
| Title | Tags | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 850 | Florence log 3 - Take it easy | Holiday, Florence, Italy | |
| 1217 | Arriving at Andros (Greece 1) | Holiday, Andros, Greece | |
| 1318 | Heatwave | Israel, Weather | |
| 1502 | Yesterday's sky | Weather | |
| 1761 | In silence | Song writing | |
| 1937 | Recording "Maeve's song" - production notes | Home recording |
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