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Jasmine Star (US,2005?)***°°
Jasmine Star plays tampura and amplified guitar(s) and sings in whispery feathers. She never reveals her face on any of the pictures. I don’t have to add that this is intimate music, covered under leafs of creative protection, withdrawn from worldly visions, innocent and lovely. A bit less minimal compared to Diane Darby. The vision is shy, gentle and simple, but does not reveal all. It has something of poetry, like as when looking at a child’s personal vision of a play. At the same time its innocence of the childhood is like the best kept secret of a grown up girl, and it’s having its own strength. The guitars can create landscapes on the tampura drone, moody and receptive.
The music really grew on me with various listens. There's a kind of melancholic eternal beauty hidden here. The second guitars have Floydian touches. Recommended !
In my radioshow I called the songs of being of a beautiful eternal minimalism, like curing suicidal songs touching something of eternity, to feed life.
