MIND IS MUD

TRACKLISTING


A1. Céline Gillain - Together
A2. Céli ne Gillain - High Definition
A3. Céline Gillain - The Authoritarian
A4. Cé line Gillain - Never Easy
A5. Céline Gillain - Peer Pressure
B1. Céline Gi llain - My Secret
B2. Céline Gillain - Empty
B3. Céline Gillain - They Pla y Games
B4. Céline Gillain - You The Client





INFO


Glitching through pop music, cruising around the borders of the ava nt garde, passing by the edge of coldwave and tumbling into dance and club vibes : after her debut Bad Woman Céline Gillain is back with her second album: 'Mind is Mud'.

On Mind is Mud' Gillain let herself sink in the swamp of emo tional confusion, the perpetual brain fog caused by a post Covid-world asking he rself: do we have to get used to paradox as a way of life from now on?*

A musical dissection in nine songs of the mudflow, a flow which reveals its r ich complexity the more Gillain dived into it: from the demanding intro 'Togethe r' Céline opens up her highly personal and unique vision, shifting between high definition lost dimensions and emotionsthe mud slowly transfers in a crackling a nd sparkling stream of consciousness.

The mud is well alive in all it s weirdness and unclarity. At times, it even glows in the dark.

*The answer to that question is yes.

The story of Mind is Mud by Céline Gi llain:

"Music is a place where intuiting is a work in itself. For me, it's the one place where I'm in charge, free to think and do what I want. Mind is Mud is the fruit of a collaborative practice with a DAW, a research around th e palliative power of rhythm and the dancefloor, music as a space where emotions and ideas merge, storytelling, the comic potential and imaginative nature of so und. I don't really write, I copy paste and then I arrange and rearrange. Every sound I use comes from software, field recording, Instagram, movies and midi sco res I collect here and there. In the hierarchy of sounds, you might call them ch eap sounds. The lyrics are collages as well, made of pieces of texts from variou s contradictory sources. In addition to using the voice as a vehicle for ideas, I investigate its percussive and polyphonic potentialities, the possibility to h ave more than one voice/mouth."

Sounds like:

Grace Jones, Kae Tempest, Annie Lennox, Leslie Winer and The Knife cutting up their favorite books, entering the k-hole and recording their dystopian dreams at the backstage of Berghain.

Bio:

Céline Gillain is an artist based in Br ussels working across the fields of experimental music, electronic music, and vi sual and performing arts. She has performed extensively in Europe during the las t ten years. Her work explores the meeting points between dancefloor, politics, the industry, and storytelling, deconstructing the codes and hierarchies that go vern them. Seeking escape routes and operating in the loopholes, Céline feels at home in the in-betweens.

In 2017, she released her first single toge ther with Lexi Disques titled What Happens If I Open My Mouth?, soon followed by her debut LP Bad Woman with Drama (2018).

RESIDENT ADVISOR "She stri ps down pop components, discards most of them, and recombines what's left at unu sual angles-a hard blip of percussion here, a stab of melody there, haunting spo ken word woven through it all".