Since forming in Copenhagen in 2010, drummers Jaleh Negari and Anja Jacobsen, saxophonist Sonja LaBianca and trombonist Maria Bertel have forged a unique approach to making music that starts with their instrumental set-up: two drummers who interlock as frequently as they go their own way, a trombone put through a bass amplifier and a saxophone put through a range of effects. Selvhenter draw from their individual players’ personalities and interests to make a highly collective music, where an improvised free jazz approach collides with experimental electronic music and avant garde noise/post-punk sonorities.

Their new LP Mesmerizer – their first physical album release in nearly a decade and their debut on French label Hands In The Dark – deploys original and complex patterns of rhythm through various percussive instruments and finely textured horns and synths.

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