Gazelle Twin
Heavy industrial sounds combined with ritualistic drums and highly versatile vocalsAbout
Gazelle Twin is the performance moniker for Elizabeth Bernholz, a composer, producer, singer, and visual artist based in the UK. In 2009 Bernholz created this “transformative” performance persona to encompass; composition, studio albums, soundtracks, art installations and live performance, intended to openly address a deep-rooted aversion to traditional and contemporary norms across the music industry, particularly for women. Her ever-changing, identity-warping personas based on powerful, emotional themes and a fiercely independent spirit has driven her output and many collaborations since.
Bernholz has independently released three critically acclaimed studio albums to date; The Entire City (2011), Unflesh (2014), and Pastoral (2018), together with three soundtrack LPs from album off-shoot performance projects; Out of Body (2015), Kingdom Come (2017), and Deep England with NYX Electronic Drone Choir (2021). As a newly established soundtrack composer, her credits for Film, TV, and Video games include: AMC’s The Walking Dead, The Virtues (C4), Cyberpunk 2077, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Netflix), Nocturne (Amazon/Blumhouse), The Power (BFI/Shudder) and Then You Run (Kudos/Sky). Her collaborations as vocalist and producer include Gary Numan, Halsey (through Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross), Maxine Peake, Perc, Blanck Mass and DJ Dave Clarke and more.
Gazelle Twin’s new album is set to be released in late 2023 on renowned British label Invada Records.
Programme Text
Why do we dream of our childhood for the rest of our lives? Where do we find a home that isn't scary? And is that really a black dog with bloody chops under the bed? Those are a few of the questions that Elizabeth Bernholz alias Gazelle Twin grapples with on her latest album Black Dog. She has been fusing heavy industrial sounds with ritualistic drones and versatile vocals since the early 2010s, constantly swapping masks and personalities ever since. On Black Dog, she now sings about the ghosts of her past, who in turn sing back in a thousand tongues. It is nothing less than exorcism.