Jasmina Maschina’s folk soundscapes transport you into her unique world of song.

Jasmine Guffond, one half of the experimental electronic duo Minit (staubgold/sigma editions) has over the last 12 years been recording and performing with Minit, exhibiting sound installations, developing works of varied scope based on the use of processed acoustic, electronic, and found sound sources. Equally interested in song, composition and free, improvised music, as Jasmina Maschina she began recording songs in her Berlin homes producing her debut solo album, 'The Demolition Series', released on Staubgold in 2008. Melding the most simple and innocent chord progressions of time-honoured folk music with a noisenik’s attraction to repetition, drone and inventiveness to create the sensation of paresthesia, tingling on both the skin and mind.
A split LP/CD with Golden Diskó Ship just came out on Monika Enterprise March 2010.

Live, Jasmina performs hauntingly beautiful variations of her songs. Fragile layers of sound swirling magnificently around your ears, each song based on her personal style of gentle guitar picking, yet at any moment capable of interrupting into intoxicating noise, seducing you into her wonderful atmosphere.

Jasmine currently lives and works in Berlin.
http://www.myspace.com/jasminemaschine
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http://www.staubgold.com

‘Her brand of folk is classic and consists of soft harmonic ballads, yet she is not easily classifiable; another pulsating, hypnotic layer is always present’
- Clarissa Lempp, Live Review, Trompete Berlin 20.4.07

‘As the album develops, Maschina’s history with Minit manifests itself; that group’s affinity for repetition, drone, and alterations of a pygmy sort informs and strengthens these songs. Inasmuch as these inclinations refresh the timbral palette, they also affirm a consistency of tone that pays off handsomely. In setting off on this path and discovering something so deeply personal, Maschina has accessed a sublime form that is well beyond herself.’

Jasmina Maschina The Demolition Series (Staubgold)
'Superb debut album of beautiful folk guitar music from Berlin-based Machina, better known perhaps as one half of experimental electronic outfit Minit. This is straight-ahead folk filtered through an imaginative electro-prism that knocks Cat Power into a cocked hat.'
- Dominic Al-Badri - Kansai Time Out

'Really and truly there are no low points or filler tracks here, the songs, changing pace and instrumental colouring through out are always consistent in songwriting flare, harmonic homing and rich, accomplished and soothing playing. I can see this appealing to anyone and everyone and not just folk fans as the Demolition Series is a collection of great tuneful, well written and conceived tracks, performed with great passion, feeling and depth. One of the high points of this year and surly the debut album of the year'
- Roger Batty, Musique Machine