Jasmine Guffond 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 Jasmine Guffond’s tracks JasmineGuffond SonicVoyeur by Jasmine Guffond published on 2019/08/26 21:02:27 +0000 Boundless Informant by Jasmine Guffond published on 2019/06/21 09:20:54 +0000 Swan Song by Jasmine Guffond published on 2018/12/18 01:31:30 +0000 Rehear by Jasmine Guffond published on 2017/10/13 14:00:55 +0000 Post Human by Jasmine Guffond published on 2017/09/06 02:29:26 +0000 Vision Strategy Coordinators by Jasmine Guffond published on 2017/07/04 21:10:37 +0000 DegradationLoops_55SydenhamRdMarrickville by Jasmine Guffond published on 2016/12/23 01:27:10 +0000 Somnabulant_Live_Leon_Mexico_2016 by Jasmine Guffond published on 2016/11/29 12:14:18 +0000 RR Variation by Jasmine Guffond published on 2016/10/01 13:07:29 +0000 Core Notions by Jasmine Guffond published on 2016/02/27 21:34:47 +0000
