Song of the day! Gazelle Twin BEAK> remix ‘Fear Keeps Us Alive’
We are loving Gazelle Twin’s new tune – a BEAK> remix of her Fear Keeps Us Alive is another slice of spectral shape shifting electronics with a dive bombing PiL style Wobble bass line driving it along…great tune!
Song of the day! Gazelle Twin
The song is from the upcoming Gazelle Twin album, shadow dogs which is an album of reworkings and reinterpretations of tracks from her acclaimed Black Dog album.
There will be remixes from Keeley Forsyth, Gary Numan, Mark Jenkin, Marta Salogni, Penelope Trappes, Sealionwoman + more – out 18 October on invada
Her British library performance with lco is on 1st Nov, opening their tales of the weird season
Song of the day! Gazelle Twin
Gazelle Twin has announced details of Shadow Dogs, a brand new album of reworkings and reinterpretations of tracks from her acclaimed album, Black Dog, set for release on 18 October 2024 via Invada Records.
This new album of “ghost” or “shadow” versions of tracks from Gazelle Twin’s fourth studio album features reinterpretations by a host of artists: Keeley Forsyth, Gary Numan, Mark Jenkin, Marta Salogni, Penelope Trappes, Sealionwoman and BEAK>, who launch the series with their blistering take on ‘Fear Keeps Us Alive’.
Billy Fuller from BEAK> explains, “We were honoured to be asked by Elizabeth to do a version of ‘Fear Keeps Us Alive’ for her Shadow Dogs album. We’ve attempted to do it as if BEAK> were playing it onstage live with her, and hope you like it!”
Talking about Shadow Dogs, Bernholz says, “When making Black Dog, a persistent obsession I had was the link between audio-visual tech and the nature of ghosts. I thought about Edison’s Ghost Machine, early EVP experiments, and the “ghosting” of transmitted images on the first televisions. All recordings are ghosts of sorts, and so came the idea of inviting musicians that I really admire, to create ghost or shadow versions of these songs, and together form a new pack – Shadow Dogs.”
Gazelle Twin’s Black Dog – a powerful and unforgettable album dealing with confrontation, childhood fears, and how they manifest in adulthood – was described by Uncut as “her most lustrous, luxuriant and darkly beautiful to date”. Gazelle Twin’s commanding live performance of the album has already been witnessed at Rewire, Donau, Simple Things and Supersonic festival, and a unique show is planned for the British Library, London on 1 November. Taking place at the grand entrance hall of the Grade I building, one of the largest libraries in the world, Black Dog will be reworked by Gazelle Twin and Max de Wardener with the London Contemporary Orchestra, conducted by Robert Ames (their second collaboration after working together on The Power and the Glory with the BBC Concert Orchestra in 2022). The specially commissioned performance opens the British Library’s new season, Tales of the Weird: An Autumnal Festival, a celebration of strange, uncanny and horror, and attendees for the event will be able to see the new British Library exhibition, Medieval Women: in their own words included in the event ticket. Arrive early to meet these women from another time, through rare manuscripts, letters and records.
A recent live EP Black Dog Live, presented raw, visceral takes on ‘Two Worlds’, ‘Fear Keeps Us Alive’, ‘A Door Opens’ and ‘Unstoppable Force’ from the ACCA in Brighton further illustrate the unique world this remarkable artist conjures.
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