Mesmerizer

Description

Going beyond musical genres and straight toward something more elemental - Selvhenter's music creates a surprisingly direct and physical sonic experience composed of polyrhythms, acoustic and electric melodies, heavy music, and improvised beauty, resulting in something between krautrock and free jazz. Their new LP Mesmerizer - which marks their first physical album release in nearly a decade (they have notably appeared on the Café Oto label in London) and their debut on the French label Hands in the Dark - continues this process of exploration, deploying original and complex rhythmic patterns through various percussion instruments, finely textured horns, and synths. Attention to sonic detail is pushed to the extreme on this new record, making the open auditory adventure suggested by the album's title all the more captivating. These creative developments have brilliantly kept Selvhenter's music alive for new moods and unexplored possibilities, while strengthening their fundamental elements: propulsive, dense, and often ecstatic music.