Where Light Settles Jasmine Myra

• 1 Opening 01:59
• 2 Reflections 03:34
• 3 Likeness and Shadow 06:14
• 4 Some Rain Must Fall 05:50
• 5 Echo 02:37
• 6 Breath 01:00
• 7 Fragments 05:29
• 8 In an Instant 08:08
• 9 Where Light Settles 06:29
• Total Runtime 41:20

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Saxophonist and composer Jasmine Myra presents nine beautiful and powerfully grounded compositions that express her ruminations on life, growth, and progression, powered by the artist’s vision of duality. “It’s those bittersweet moments which are heart-breaking but so important. Looking forward and trying to make sense of life,” she says. “Pain is unavoidable, and you’ll have hardship no matter what, but you don’t grow or learn about yourself or the world around you without it. The duality is the growth and coming out the other side. I had the concept from the start.”

Jasmine Myra’s verdant musical vision and talent for instrumental storytelling came to life over five days, with her long-standing ensemble gathering in one room at The Nave studios in Leeds with the addition of a string section – all recorded live.

Myra had crossed paths with Ancient Infinity Orchestra bandleader Ozzy Moysey before she moved from Leeds to London, often attending and playing at the same jam sessions. This made him the perfect choice to conduct the 13-piece band, freeing her up to bring maximum tenderness and elegiac tones to the alto sax lines she’d written. Her own playing sits deliberately within each track, never flying above. Instead, it wraps gently around precision melodies she wrote for strings, piano, flute, guitar, vibraphone, and harp which themselves furl and unfurl gorgeously around tenor sax, double bass, drums, and percussion. Melodies that sparkle like sunlight on water.

"‘Where Light Settles’ does not seek to overwhelm. Its strength lies in its patience, in the way it allows ideas to emerge fully formed yet gently presented. Myra’s decision to embed her saxophone within the ensemble rather than elevate it speaks to a broader artistic confidence: a willingness to let the music speak as a whole. The result is an album that engages deeply without raising its voice, offering a considered reflection on growth, difficulty, and the quiet transformations that connect them." (James Broscheid, bigtakeover.com)

Jasmine Myra, alto saxophone, flute
Ben Haskins, guitar
Jasper Green, piano
Alice Roberts, harp
George Hall, drums
Greg Burns, percussion
Ozzy Moysey, conductor (Ancient Infinity Orchestra)

Please Note: We offer this album in its native sampling rate of 48kHz, 24-bit. The provided 96kHz version was up-sampled and offers no audible value!

Jasmine Myra
is a saxophonist, composer and band leader, based in Leeds. Part of the bustling, creative, cross-genre music scene in the city she has surrounded herself with some of the best young talent in the north of England. Her original instrumental music has a euphoric and uplifting sound, influenced by artists as diverse as Bonobo, Olafur Arnalds and Kenny Wheeler, artists whose music shares an emotive quality that you can also hear in Myra’s own compositions.

She has been working with Gondwana Records A&R and producer Matthew Halsall, whose keen ear for talent helped bring the music of GoGo Penguin, Mammal Hands and Hania Rani to the wider world.

“I was immediately drawn to Jasmine’s music. I could hear jazz, electronica in her music but with a deep, honest, emotional quality. I was really impressed with her skills as a composer and bandleader, that she is open and intelligent enough to bring all those influences together, to make something fresh and original.” (Matthew Halsall)

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