MOJO PRESENTS

New York’s CASSANDRA JENKINS grapples with the complexities of life, death, the universe and everything on quirky, melodic, meticulously artworked LPs that encompass jazz and ’90s grunge-pop. But her sophistication, she insists, is rooted in the fundamentals. “I just want to love and be loved,” she tells VICTORIA SEGAL.

ON OCTOBER 13, 2021, AMAZON MOGUL JEFF BEZOS SENT WILLIAM SHATNER TO the final frontier. The trip in the Blue Origin space shuttle was intended as a gift to a childhood hero, but it nearly blew the 90-year-old actor’s mind. Back on earth, the former Captain Kirk spoke of the overwhelming grief he felt at seeing his planet all alone in the darkness of the universe. It’s a recognised syndrome in astronauts: humans, it seems, aren’t meant to see the earth from space. It’s too much beauty, too much terror, too much awe. Too much perspective. It’s called the ‘overview effect’. There’s a track on My Light, My Destroyer, the third album by New York singer-songwriter Cassandra Jenkins, called Shatner’s Theme, an untethered instrumental snippet of radio interference and atmospheric…

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MOJO (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2024

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