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Custom art direction and design by Benoît Canaud Studio and Selwa, featuring artwork by Kevin Vasic and Khanh Robert with custom Kerozene typeface by Eliott Grunewald on reverse board, full color printed jackets. Product shots by Benoît Canaud Studio (www.benoitcanaud.fr).
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Selwa Abd (originally from Morocco, currently residing in Brooklyn) uses the fictional character Bergsonist, from Brooklyn, Slovakia, as her musical guise. Derived from Deleuze’s Bergsonism, Bergsonist uses intuition as a method to deliver her/his instinctive psychoanalytic theories. A blend of different audio sources and samples are used as a way to capture the essence of the ‘present’ moment, manipulating found sounds along with self-concocted digital fragments to combine in in the span of a set, given time.
Bergsonist allows inspiration to come from anywhere, yet she/he limits themselves by the gear/tools that are used. The approach consists of inhaling all the energy of the city — influenced by trips to museums, galleries, shows, talking to people and sensing nature — and exhaling it sonically. Bergsonist reacts to this energy and inspiration without any specific rules, styles or genres — extending the array of possibilities by always pushing preconceived uses of the tools.
Following a slew of cassette-only releases from labels across the global map and a split 12” with Isabella on Borft Records last year, Selwa shares her most twisted and considered compositions to date with Mutation. Four fire-stoking tracks of electro convulsions sparked from indecipherable depths enflame new terrains for an artist whose output is unextinguishable - prolific barely covers the rapidity with which Bergsonist shares new jams to a lucky few - proffering Mutation as an indelible moment in Selwa’s blossoming career.
Mutation features a ripped / thrashed remix from in-the-cut edit wizard, Murray CY. Mutation will be available in a limited vinyl edition of 200 with artwork designed and conceived by Selwa and Benoit Canaud Studio.
credits
released August 11, 2017
All songs written by Selwa Abd in Brooklyn, NY
Art Direction and design by Benoît Canaud Studio and Selwa
Artwork by Kevin Vasic and Khanh Robert
Typefaces 'Kerozene' by Eliott Grunewald
Master & lacquer cut by Josh Bonati at Josh Bonati Mastering, NYC
Chicago house producer 400+ undergirds their crisp, minimal arrangements with varying shades of dread, but also errant glimmers of optimism. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 9, 2022
