jasmine.4.t

In the organizer's words:

"It's darkest just before dawn" is the motto of British indie folk singer Jasmine.4.t.'s debut album - and perhaps also the motto of her life so far. Growing up in Bristol, she inherited her uncle's guitar after his death. In the years that followed, she devoted herself intensively to playing the guitar and discovered formative influences such as Elliott Smith and Adrienne Lenker. As a teenager, she was active in various grunge and punk bands. She moved to Oxford to study and experienced the first profound turning point in her life there: her coming out as a trans woman was met with so much rejection that she withdrew emotionally despite the health consequences. In 2019, everything seemed to take a brief turn for the better: She got married, founded the label "Breakfast Records" with friends and released her first EP "Worn Through". But then came the pandemic. Confined to bed by Long Covid, she made a courageous decision: she wanted to start her transition again. An even more difficult phase followed: her marriage broke up, she had to leave her parents' home and struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder. She found salvation in a new start in Manchester. Without an apartment of her own, the musician initially slept on friends' and strangers' sofas - where she was seen and accepted as a trans woman for the first time. She started writing again: songs about the rollercoaster ride of her transition: painful, tender, confusing, sometimes funny, but always empowering. Her debut album "You Are The Morning", released in early 2025, is dedicated to all those in Manchester's queer community who picked her up during this time. It was recorded in Los Angeles with prominent support: Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers (band members of boygenius) produced the album together with Jasmine. Their connection to Lucy Dacus goes back to 2016, when Jasmine accompanied her as a support act on Dacus' tour. Years later, Lucy Dacus showed her bandmate Phoebe Bridgers her first demos and she became the first British artist to sign Jasmine to her label, Saddest Factory Records. A deeply moving work was created in LA, recorded with her band, also consisting of trans people - Phoenix Rousiamanis (piano), Eden O'Brien (drums), Emily Abbott (bass) - and the Trans Chorus of LA. The result is not an album that only deals with the experiences of trans people, but Jasmine's experiences of queer identity often resonate. It's about friendship, the first intimacy between two trans people, about loss, hope and healing. Musically, the whole thing is carried by Jasmine.4.t's delicate guitar playing and a warm, detailed indie-folk production. After a jam-packed summer of festivals and support shows for Lucy Dacus, Jasmine.4.t is finally coming to Germany on a solo tour this fall.