Rebecca Vasmant – With Love, From Glasgow
On her debut album, Rebecca Vasmant captures the spiritual depths of Glasgow’s jazz scene
Rebecca Vasmant has been a pivotal figure within Glasgow’s burgeoning jazz scene over recent years. On her debut album With Love, From Glasgow, she brings the scene’s myriad of musical talents together like never before. “During the time spent working on this music an amazing family formed,” she says in a press release. Eighteen musicians – including Graham Costello, Harry Weir and Gillian Katungi, aka Paix – feature on the album, but what’s even more extraordinary is that everything was recorded and mixed by Vasmant in her Stanmore Road flat.
Themes of time, love and introspection flow among the sonically expansive tracks that make up With Love, From Glasgow. Peppering sax lines and distant vocals set the album’s textural tone in the opening time-themed tracks. Meditative mantras of love resonate in Nadya Albertsson’s vocals on Freefall while Paix’s pertinent spoken-word exposé on womanhood takes the forefront on Internal Dispute.
There’s no rigidity to this album; every track opens a new portal into Vasmant’s psyche. It captures jazz’s core principles: freedom, collaboration and expression. But most of all, it captures the spiritual depths of Glasgow’s jazz scene. A loving testament to a richly cultural city.
Listen to: Freefall (ft. Nadya Albertsson), Iternal Dispute (ft. Paix)