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Gazelle Twin unveils video for new single ‘Fear Keeps Us Alive’

03 October 2023

Gazelle Twin, the project of composer, producer, singer, and visual artist Elizabeth Bernholz, announced last month the release of her new album Black Dog. Along with the news, she had shared the sinister and seductive title track, and now she has unveiled a gripping and eerie new cut from the album titled ‘Fear Keeps Us Alive’. The single comes with an accompanying video directed by long-time collaborator Chris Turner and assisted by photographer Teri Varhol. Turner comments:

“I love working with Elizabeth and Teri. We share so many of the same fascinations and obsessions, and this allows an honest and creative freedom to exist between us. We’re also all lovers of ageing, imperfect formats of photography and video. The visual and thematic elements of the song, the short film, and the album all seemed to fit perfectly together.”

Bernholz also had this to say about it:

“Chris, Teri and I share a passion for the weird and the uncanny. The film and images we’ve made together in various forms just wouldn’t have happened without their enthusiasm, generosity and genius skill. ‘Fear Keeps Us Alive’ is another brilliant collaboration and has produced such a striking outcome that blends so many shared ideas and visions so naturally.”

Watch the video below and watch out for the release of Black Dog on October 27th through Invada Records.

Gazelle Twin signs to Invada Records and announces new studio album, Black Dog

05 September 2023

Photo: Teri Varhol

Gazelle Twin has announced her new LP, Black Dog, out October 27th, along with her signing to Invada Records. Elizabeth Bernholz, the composer, producer, singer, and visual artist behind the project, reveals her face for the first time, dropping the masked characters used in previous releases. Black Dog, as the press release describes, “is an album about confronting fear, and the expectation that the things that lurked in the darkness when you were a child will disappear as you become an adult.”

The album news is accompanied by the sinister and seductive title track, whose lyrical rhythms are inspired by the children’s books Bernholz reads to her children. The title comes from a childhood figure, she explains, “a small black dog’s shadow, blacker than black, moving by my bedside – not terrifying but lingering. Looping. Tailing. Restless. Keeping me awake”.

‘Black Dog’ is offered with an accompanying video directed by John Minton, and you can watch it below.

Gazelle Twin and NYX announce collaborative album Deep England

25 November 2020

Gazelle Twin, aka composer, musician and producer Elizabeth Bernholz, and electronic drone choir NYX are set to release their debut collaborative album, Deep England, on March 19th through NYX Collective Records. The 8-track album is an electronic-choral expansion of Gazelle Twin’s acclaimed 2018 album Pastoral, featuring reworked tracks from it as well as some NYX originals. Rooted in English pagan and sacred music, Deep England was originally created for live performance with Movement Director Imogen Knight, Sound Associate Peter Rice and Designer Chloe Lamford and was recorded right after their premiere at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in November 2019. Gazelle Twin and NYX shared their reflection on the album:

“Here lies our ancient future, Deep England: our hope and compassion in the chokehold of power and glory.
Hand in hand, here we cry our rage: summoning a lament into the ether, a divine androgynous force, a transcendental purge of the dizzying chaos of post-truth Britain.”

Ahead of the album release, they have shared ‘Fire Leap’, serving as the first magnificent and uncanny single from the record. Take a listen to it below and check out the album trailer straight after.

Mixtape #113

01 April 2020

This month’s mixtape comes courtesy of the daring and dazzling all-female multi-instrumentalist chamber music collective Collectress, whose impressive body of work spans an incredibly wide spectrum of artistic expression and myriad multi-arts collaborations. Their beguiling and bewildering compositions first struck us when we heard their 2014 album, Mondegreen. Fluent in both composed contemporary music and free improvisation, they continue to create enchanting and enveloping music with their recently released second album, Different Geographies. So we’re over the moon to have them onboard curating this mix with an exquisite selection of tracks reflecting the many influences that have shaped their own sublime sounds. Press play and drift away.

  1. Steve Reich with Pat Metheny – Electric Counterpoint: II. Slow [Nonesuch Records]
  2. Dmitri Shostakovich – Shostakovich Quartet – String Quartet No. 3 in F, Op. 73: I. Allegretto [Musical Concepts]
  3. Gazelle Twin – Little Lambs [Anti-Ghost Moon Ray]
  4. Sun Ra and His Arkestra & June Tyson – Space Is the Place [Sweet Earth Records]
  5. Alice Coltrane – Journey in Satchidananda (feat. Pharoah Sanders) [UMG Recordings, Inc.]
  6. Smog – Say Valley Maker [Drag City]
  7. Edvard Grieg – Jan Bjøranger & 1B1 – Holberg Suite (for string orchestra), Op. 40; IV Air [Grappa Musikkforlag AS]
  8. Agnes Obel – Citizen of Glass [PIAS]
  9. Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson & Jon Christensen – My Song [ECM Records GmbH]
  10. Nils Økland – Månelyst [Rune Grammofon]
  11. Johnny Flynn – The Wrote & The Writ [Mercury Records Limited]