Jasmine Guffond
'Hugely impressive second album from Jasmine Guffond landing again via the collectable Sonic Pieces imprint. In Traced, Guffond takes the textural and spatially sensitive ambient aesthetics of her previous LP, the acclaimed Yellow Bell, into palpably more paranoid and unnerving headspaces, using her filigree appreciation of electro-acoustic dynamics to investigate digital surveillance technologies and the way they, along with myriad other machines, impinge upon and frame our waking life.
The key to the work really lies in the way Jasmine’s sleight of hand keeps listeners lulled or focussed on one of her hypnotic elements without fully realising that the atmospheric pressure has become almost unbearably tense, almost making us think; this sound is really dreamy but why am I feeling so anxious?! ' - Boomkat, TRACED album review, July 2017
'this new release - from Jasmine Guffond - really stands out as their best release yet. You may or may not have come across Guffond's other projects - Jasmina Maschina or Minit - but this debut album under her own name is something else entirely. in the space of the opening 20 minutes Guffond takes us from utterly brilliant drone/bass-treatments reminiscent of Jim O’Rourke’s finest, most dense electronic work, to the kind of lump-in-the-throat bare-boned songs Grouper has more or less made her own these last few years. The production here is just incredibly good - an absolute masterclass in restraint through the arrangements, and fearlessness through her use of frequencies - taking you through emotional and sonic highs and lows without ever sounding contrived. It takes us back to Julia Holter’s early material for NNA Tapes, weaving in and out of field recordings and intense bassline oscillations through to the gentlest lullabies - a fully formed suite of songs that we’d be really surprised if we didn't hear much more about over the coming years. It really is a remarkable debut this - keep ‘em peeled for this one.'
- 'Yellow Bell' review by Bookmat
‘…her second Jasmina Maschina full-length, /Alphabet Dream Noise/, is a bold and melodious plunge into vocal songcraft that’s equally rooted in acoustic folk and experimental electronic genres. Traces of Minit do surface in the music—certainly the songs’ electronic dimension and attention to textural detail suggest as much—but without question Guffond’s Jasmina Maschina material has a more immediate and easier appeal than the more purely experimental Minit material. /Now Right Here/, it goes without saying, can’t compete with something as pretty as ‘The City is Moving Like a Map’, for example, while ‘Crying Dream’ haunts like the most affecting torch song Julee Cruise never sang’
- Textura Review
‘I think once most people are done giving this album a spin, they’ll be awe-struck that this is a solo project. The music on Alphabet Dream Noise is nearly schizophrenic in nature, but in a way that comes off as completely harmonious. Two sides happily enveloped in one another. Its this strange marriage of sound that gives Jasmina Maschina an incredibly unique platform to stand from. She’s not only a talented vocalist and guitarist, but her electronic prowess is miles ahead of expectations.’
- 5/5 Heathen Harvest Review
‘Dreamy, intelligently woven mixture of folk, ambient and electronica. the Australian Jasmine Guffond aka Jasmina Maschina floats light winged across music history and styles, her approach comparable with múm.’
- Raabenstein – De:Bug
‘Alphabet Dream Noise’ continues her voyage into shimmering avant pop territory after 2008′s killer ‘The Demolition Series’. Through noisy field recordings, chattering guitars and her own gorgeous vocals we are led on a journey that is neither pop music, rock or drone – and like fellow Aussie Sanso-Xtro she manages to emerge with a sound that defies easy classification. Gorgeous stuff.’
- Boomkat Review
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