The cover tells you where to stand. It is a photograph of a sky after sunset, orange settling along a ridge line while the blue above it has not yet given way, with the title set plainly across the top. ‘Where light remains’ is Yena’s single for Project Dream, and it works in the same register as the image.

This is new age music, and it moves at the pace the genre asks for. Eighty-three beats per minute across a little over three minutes leaves room between events, and the track is content to hold a mood rather than build towards anything. Nothing here is in a hurry.

A single that stays in the part of the evening after the sun has gone and before the dark arrives.

The title does the rest of the work. Light that remains is not the light of the sunset itself but what is left once the source has dropped below the ridge, and that gap is a specific feeling rather than a general calm. The record aims at it directly.

Slow music is easy to leave running and hard to make land. This one leans on a single image and trusts the listener to meet it there. Put it on in the hour it was named for.

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