![]() ![]() Jasmine Iona has a knack for capturing the intangible. ![]() "I Wasn't Looking" is from Jasmine Iona's latest EP "Petrol Blue", recorded in her living room. You were laughing, I was holding the moment tightĪnd when I woke, I felt the mercy of grace I tend to miss the once-a-lifetime events I used to dream that stars would fall in our yard "My mum believes in heaven, I find it hard Growing up is learning what you can’t save"Īs someone who has lost my fair share of loved ones, family, friends, the gut punch of loss never really ever leaves, the pain just changes, shifts to something resembling an emotional scar and over time you will quit hating yourself for things you didn't say, you didn't do. She’s getting half the ashes, someone else keeps the restįifty five used to feel like a long time away "My best friend’s dad died in a hospital bed Iona reflects on that connective tissue between friends: Iona shares the seeds of the song, "It's a gently heartbreaking reflection on the death of my estranged grandpa" and as it is when you lose someone, the tentacles of loss seem to reach out to others and soon you find out about their loss too. Iona possesses a beautiful vulnerable vocal presence here that somehow comforts you through the sadness of the song, a kind of sadness that is relatable. Against floating circular keys, droning sounds and somber beats, the glacial melancholia of "I Wasn't Looking" by Melbourne, Australia based singer-songwriter / musician Jasmine Iona digs deeply under your skin. ![]()
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