JASMIN KASET

Jasmin Kaset recorded her first album in 2008 and released it exclusively on audio cassette through the now-defunct Nashville noise rock cassette label, Nailbat Tapes. The self-titled album, now difficult to find, is a sparely arranged and recorded collection of quirky folk-pop songs that had never traveled far beyond the basements of Murfreesboro, Tennessee - the college town where Jasmin also played drums in the locally notorious all-girl punk band, Stevie Binge and the Fork Hunts. By the time the album saw a release, Jasmin had moved to Melbourne, Australia, where she played in pubs and wrote a host of new songs that chronicled her transition from the brash innocence of her Tennessee youth to adulthood's first weird brushes with clarity and loss. Returning to Tennessee, she partnered with producer Jordan Lehning to make Hell and Half of Jordan, a big sounding 18 minute, 8 song record. Jasmin Kaset and her band are currently recording a full-length follow-up which will be released in 2012. When she's not performing with her own band, Jasmin works as a butcher and sous chef and forms one half of the filth-country duo Birdcloud.