Jasmine Dreame Wagner, sometimes more sometimes less.
Sometimes Alex Wilson and Becca Owen, too.
Influences
you'll drive down between parking garages
to watch the crows sweeping down from the
lights of the switch motel and the cellular
tower across the river's crumpled foil
and you will lie down on that butter-colored
grass, watch the crows sweeping down from
the lights, they dive, they fly, they will
alight as the hours burn your hair white
"Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is a result of the indie-music world's ongoing experiment with folk: It cuts the music apart, sending its pieces back to imagined woods, shires, and netherworlds, and patiently lets them drift back in new configurations... Cabinet leader Jasmine Dreame Wagner has a feel for her influences' primal sweetness and creepiness. Between her vocal melodies and some spare guitar-plucking are cracks that fill up with the sounds of glassy chimes, tweeting birds, children's voices, and other idyllic forms of ambient noise." —The Onion A.V. Club
"Pehrspace was no longer an art gallery, but an escapist world of crimson shade... [and] through the pile of mumbled words and rants about fragility and love came Jasmine Wagner, who calls herself 'Cabinet of Natural Curiosities.' Whether she knew it or not, she gained the crowd’s attention. Jasmine didn’t just sit strumming chords telling you forgettable stories; she physically put you inside of her music. Blending field recordings of the outside world into her performance, she was able to add to her songwriting, instead of distracting away from it." —L.A. Record
"The brainchild of singer-songwriter Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is the modern-day equivalent of a music box. With a sense of delicacy and intimacy that can only be accomplished by the fragile cogs and gears housed within, Wagner's voice is quiet, understated and ephemeral. This is the kind of music you'd expect from a clockwork fever dream, softly punctuated by the rhythmic ticking of tambourine and acoustic guitar. Imagine traditional folky singer-songwriter fare performed by graceful automata." —Jeff Echert, The Pacific Northwest Inlander
Searchlight Needles CD (For Arbors)
Vineland and Grass v Glass CD-rs (CONC/For Satellites)
For booking, please contact: forsatellites@gmail.com
Cabinet of Natural Curiosities's Friend Space (Top 32)
all in due time. it's good to see that you made it out of the midwest! let me know if you make it out to oakland. thats where i'll be for the next few years.
Thanks Jasmine! I just checked myspace for the first time in quite a while. Are you still around through the fall? We should set up a show at some point! Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is great!
