AS WE GATHERED TOGETHER
we only felt LOVE
Released in April 2023, these songs are made for the end of life care, death doula and hospice movements.
What started many years ago as message from a nurse working in hospice to tell me that my music had been comforting those in her care, continued on as I began to receive more and more messages from folks working in this field who shared their stories. I’ve always felt that my songs have come to me to be made, and when I connect with their energy, I start hearing them and I know what to do. All I knew at that time, was that I had to wait. Channeling these songs was something that I had made a promise to, and held an intention for, but I knew it was going to be big work that would take a lot for me to bring them in, and so they would only come through when everything aligned. And then in the winter of 2022, I felt a shift and it happened.
I don’t know whether I will ever be able to fully describe the experience making them, because even with their immense clarity, the channels took me so far out there from my sense of self. But as I understood it, I was meant to forget the way back. They came through as a pair, meant to be together, with a love that was so enveloping, I could barely touch the edges.
My wish, is that these two songs go out into the world and find those who need them. That they might also find the listener who resonates with them for reasons beyond my intentions here. Death and dying are a part of our natural life, and can often feel hidden away until we meet them through the loss of someone close. Even when immeasurably hard and painful for each of us, we are also magnificent and brave creatures that can create a nurturing environment for the process, let it be transcendent, accepted and felt as safe.
MOVING THROUGH
Offered out into the world in November 2022.
Many years ago, Patrick and I found ourselves in a new space, making music that immersed us as creative companions into the wide and sacred world of the healing arts. It is not often that I have felt called to make a song for one of these specific mediums, but I came to understand that this piece wanted to be made for the art of Reiki and Energy Medicine……the gentle hovering of healing hands, the soft mapping of a body that reveals its spirit and shows us the path to its own healing.
I shared my intentions with Patrick, and he tuned into the guitars so they would earth this piece, keeping the energy grounded and supported, while I listened closely to find its voice. It was a slow and emerging process between us, where we had the magic of more time together, feeling like we were crossing over a bridge, transitioning to a new space as we were recording it. I believe this song speaks to that energy. It takes us from one place to another, body to spirit, sometimes back again, but ever forward.
Moving through.
LET US BE SEEN
An EP, released in May 2022.
Throughout the making of this one, I found myself held in a space of complete softness, settled in the clear energy of the present moment. I kept allowing these pieces to speak to that softness, expressing them through single voice and piano work, intimate, anchored, and at home within myself. When we began recording, my husband Patrick met the songs, and then slowly left his guitars at the door, only joining me gently on the bass to bring himself and his support to this present moment too.
What these songs mean to me, is to remember to come home to this moment, to ourselves, to each other, over and over and over again. May they find you when you need them.
FOR EVERYONE
Released in June 2021, a song for the little ones.
It is particularly special to me for two reasons. The first is that its release celebrates the 10 year anniversary of my original lullaby album for children, Until The Light Of Morning, which has been a true evergreen recording since the day it came to earth. The second, is that I am now a mother myself to our daughter Opal, and it was a song I wrote and sang to her every night before bedtime, to hold her safely in my love, no matter what was happening outside in the world. It was a beautiful experience to make a piece of music with a little one in my own arms.
Made to hold all your families in love and comfort.
VESPERS
Released in December 2020, as a single.
Offering up a gentle prayer to help the heart space heal, I held this song in simplicity and tenderness. Recorded at home in an evening session, it was made from my heart to yours.
HOLD US
Released as a single in August 2020, it was written amidst a wave of rising, changing and uprooting times in the world. Our whole family had to juggle being in quarantine, a 9 month old baby, limited access to recording studios, and being apart from all our musician friends who had to track alone at home.
When I look back, it is because of all these tricky circumstances that the song came alive in such a way, because we had no choice but to let go into a more spontaneous space, and lean into the connection of our existing relationships and musical vibes with each other to make it happen. I had such a great time making it, and it was wonderful to record a more classic song, both as a writer and a singer. I will be forever grateful to the talented folks that brought it to life….
Patrick Glynn: Guitars
Nic Rowley: Piano and Organ
Rob Jost: Bass
Rob DiPietro: Drums
AS I RETURN
Released in 2018, this album explores songs created for the expression of voice.
Never before have I made a body of work in music, where I felt so called to share my creative process, intentions and experiences making it. Ultimately these 4 songs on the album now belong to you. You will gather your own feelings on them separate to mine, and be drawn to the ones that naturally resonate with you. And especially so for those involved in the wide and wonderful world of therapeutic healing practices; such as energy medicine, breathwork, yoga, reiki, end of life care, micro dosing etc....you folks will likely instantly know where to use each of these songs in service to others. This is very much a medicine album, and I would encourage finding a quiet space, time and place to tune in and absorb it, either as one body, or as individual songs.
Each song was channeled in connection with very different beings and source energies that moved through my voice and body, and each one was very clear in their mission. My husband Patrick and I ended up playing every note on this album, which made the process creating it feel so much more personal and connected to each other than any music we have made together before. To give the lay of the land, here are the essences and messages of the songs as they came to me to be expressed. My wish, is that you find and connect with the songs on this album that call to you, and that they contribute to your peace, practices, well being, and most of all your heart.
The Rising
This song always felt like the way to welcome in the album, as it dives into the very heart of the breath itself, using the rise of the inhale and the fall of the exhale as the guiding force for my voice. It weaved itself into my life by asking me to move into a feeling of being suspended in time, drifting across the sky and floating around way out in the cosmos, letting go of thought and focus, taking long deep breaths through the voice, and melting into essence. It was a journey to the vastness of time and space, and its cosmic vibe pulled me to rise up, meet it out there, dance with it, and then softly settle back down to earth.
The Blessing
This one pulled me to fall into a more trance like state, and it felt like it came from the very root of my body. I had to hold the energy as steady as the earth beneath my feet, so I could allow my voice to reach up when it needed to, without taking me out of the grounded feeling. It felt like an ancestral wisdom was present, and I saw a figure laying down in front of me on a high table, ready to receive the music. So I tuned into their heartbeat that wanted to be heard. This song is made for a transition from one chapter to the next, a defining moment of change from one state to another.
The Channel
For those of you that are familiar with songs encompassing a traditional mantra, you will know the words I sing here. I became very drawn to this mantra, called to sing it and compose the music for it and let it express itself. Only after recording it did I discover its deeper meanings, translations and its message. This was so wonderful for me to express in voice and song, because I was able to just feel it while recording it, without the weight of knowing fully what it meant. For those of you that want a literal translation, I encourage you to explore your own meaning from it, but here is where I settled on interpretation;
OM TAT SAT - All That Is - We remind ourselves and others that we are much more than just a body and mind. We hold in our awareness the truth that we are both an individual being and also a higher consciousness; that there is a vast absolute consciousness that is both invisible and present at the heart of all manifested forms.
NAMAHA - It Is Not About Me - When Namaha is part of a mantra, it reminds us that we are part of the universe and that we can gain peace by reflecting on the notion that a person is not in control of his/her life or the universe, and that we can give ourselves over to a higher power or the higher self, removing the focus from ourselves.
The Healing
And this last song, well, it felt like all of the Angels were here. They came to me in a wave, gathered me up and asked everything of me I had to give. They asked that I completely surrender to them, and it took several days for me to allow that to fully happen, because it was such a powerful and light force energy to work with and become. I will never forget that feeling of being taken into their embrace and guided. Its title, The Healing, was known to me from the very beginning, and its message was as clear as it could be. I will always feel honoured to have held this one, and for all those transformative moments that came through for me to create it.
MUSICAL MEDITATION SERIES
In 2016, I began writing and recording the Musical Meditation Series with my husband and longterm collaborator Patrick Glynn. We had been performing live a lot that year, accompanying so many different mediums of the healing arts, and as a result, had naturally started to shift into playing music together in a more free form way. We experimented with letting go of the structures of our songs and moving into improvisation.
Inspired by these new explorations, we recorded 5 songs; Harmony, Grace, Peace, Unity and Synergy. The songs were released over the course of following two years, and the series was completed in January 2018.
TO LOVE
Released in 2015, this is an album of modern chants, movements and meditations.
Since the album danced with these different expressions, I used various instruments and percussive elements to record it, with harmonium holding the center, and kept the rest of the instrumentation as organic as possible using piano, violas, the french horn and acoustic guitars to accompany my voice.
It was a wild and fulfilling experience making this album, and at the time, I had no idea that it was going to open up the door to become such a huge part of my journey creating music in this field. This marked a major shift in my life in how I saw and experienced music to help heal, free the mind and contribute to people’s well being.
ALL BECAME GOLDEN
Released in 2013, All Became Golden is an audiovisual album, conceived by Jain and director Natalie Johns, with music arranged by Nico Muhly.
In this innovative project, Jain's spare and elegant songs are invigorated by Muhly’s tailored arrangements and the backing of a classical orchestra. Inspired by Frank Sinatra's recording process, a small audience was invited to witness these live orchestral recordings in the beautiful DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York City.
The film documents the group as they convene to simultaneously rehearse, perform and record the album, allowing a rare glimpse of the joy, risk, generosity and blind faith inherent in acts of creative collaboration.
This album is available in both audio and video formats.
UNTIL THE LIGHT OF MORNING
Released in 2011, a beautiful album of original lullabies for children, parents, (and anyone else).
I had been playing music and singing songs for as long as I could remember, and been blessed with the opportunity to perform all over the world. The thing that struck me the most during those travels, was how often people told me that they felt soothed, calmed and comforted when I sang to them.
At the same time, my family and friends back home had started to have children. It became apparent to me that they were always looking for new music to soothe their babies at nap and bedtime, and as a result of hearing the same album for the hundredth time, they were quietly going crazy listening to songs that were working for their little ones, but certainly didn’t do it for them. So then I realised what my next project would be.
This record is made for every parent and every baby (and anyone else) who needs to rest and head off into the land of sleep. The record is designed to unwind itself as it goes along, as the music becomes softer and more relaxed, eventually becoming as instrumental as the heart beat.
WE MADE THIS OURSELVES
Released in 2006, this was my debut record.
In some ways, this album holds my most personal work, as I used it to process and express the complexity of the time, and the difficult things I was going through that needed to be spoken out loud, so I could heal and close a chapter.
There is a simplicity and starkness to both my voice and the arrangements, which I held onto, as I knew it was needed to translate my feelings into the songs so they could be heard without distractions. The New York Times described it as an album of glacial delights, with a quiet, powerful minimalism. To me, that fits.