jasmine.4.t has released a new EP titled ‘You Are The Morning (AKT Fundraiser EP)’, available now via Bandcamp until the end of June. All proceeds from the release will be donated to UK charity AKT, which supports young LGBTQIA+ people through housing emergencies.
The EP features acoustic versions of three tracks recorded on a Fostex 4-track tape machine. These recordings were previously included as bonus tracks on the Japanese release of jasmine.4.t’s debut album ‘You Are The Morning’, which was released earlier this year via Saddest Factory Records.
“These acoustic versions were the last three things I recorded on my Fostex 4-track tape machine before the transport broke irreparably,” jasmine.4.t says. “We were originally gonna use the actual demos that got me signed by Phoebe, but my voice has changed a lot since then and I wanted to redo them but in exactly the same way: with two vocal tracks and two guitar tracks, recorded in my bedroom on tape. You Are The Morning is an album about queer love and hope and solidarity, and so I wanted to share these tracks in that spirit. All the money from these new versions will be donated to akt, a charity in the UK who support young LGBTQIA+ people through housing emergencies. I was homeless and sleeping on the floors and sofas of Manchester’s queer community while I wrote these songs. The people who supported me during that time became my family and the muses for my album. This is such a beautiful full circle moment for me, to be in the privileged position of being able to pay that debt forward.”
Her dates in full read:
MAY
21 King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, UK
23 Wide Awake Festival, London, UK
24 Dot to Dot Festival, Bristol, UK
25 Dot to Dot Festival, Nottingham, UK
27 The Lexington, London, UK
28 Green Door Store, Brighton, UK
29 Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, UK
31 Deaf Institute, Manchester, UK
JUNE
2 Whelan’s, Dublin, IE
7 SXSW, London, UK
12 Rockefeller, Oslo, NO^
14 Best Kept Secret, Hilvarenbeek, NL
16 Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL^
17 Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL^
18 Astra, Berlin, DE^
19 Astra, Berlin, DE^
21 Kalorama, Lisbon, PT
24 AB, Brussels, BE^
25 Le Trianon, Paris, FR^
26 Brixton Academy, London, UK^
27 Glastonbury Festival, UK
28 Glastonbury Festival, UK
30 Usher Hall, Edinburgh, UK^
JULY
1 Barrowlands, Glasgow, UK^
2 Academy, Manchester, UK^
3 Iveagh Gardens, Dublin, IE^
4 Rockwerchter Festival, BE
5 Roskilde, DK
19 Midi Festival, FR
25 Latitude Festival, UK
26 Truck Festival, UK
AUGUST
6 Oya Festival, NO
7 Way Out West, SE
11 Winterthurer Musikfestwochen, CH
16 Green Man Festival, UK
22 Reading Festival, UK
24 Leeds Festival, UK
30 End of the Road, UK
SEPTEMBER
26 The Baby G, Toronto, ON
28 All Things Go Festival, Columbia, MD
30 Word Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA
OCTOBER
1 The Rockwell, Somerville, MA
2 Baby’s All Right, New York, NY
4 Schubas, Chicago, IL
5 The Basement, Nashville, TN
7 Masonic Lodge, Los Angeles, CA
8 Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco, CA
NOVEMBER
8 Airwaves, IS
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