Loie Fuller meets Glockabelle

The frenetic dancing of Loie Fuller meets my arrangement of the epic Ventures surf rock tune "Apache" in this new clip.

Review from Vancouver Show 6/6/16

Opening act Glockabelle‘s retro-synth cabaret has a strong playful element and childlike zeal for simple stories on vintage and exotic instruments (i.e. early Casio keyboards, drum machine and a glockenspiel.) Sung in both French and English, Annabelle Cazes performed her charming one-woman show in the presence of a stuffed tiger (honourary bassist) and a live napping drummer, whom Cazes tucked in beneath a blanket between songs about a variety of anthropomorphic animals that (respectively) have a barbecue, kiss, and fall into a swimming pool. While a clear departure from the concerts Factory Worker Media typically covers, King’s and Cazes’ performances were a thrilling reminder that the transgression of boundaries in music can occur anywhere along the genre spectrum. An inspiring example of unique creative expression.   

https://factoryworkermedia.com/2016/06/10/photo-gallerygig-review-kaki-king-glockabelle-at-fox-cabaret-vancouver-6-june-2016/

Review from Seattle Music News 6/5/16

Opener Glockabelle, shredding up her Casio keyboards and a glockenspiel (with thimbles on all of her fingers), sent the room into a frenzied tailspin. Watching her fingers whiz across the keys is an exercise in blinking. Her playful French lyrics, her stuffed tiger, her art-punk attitude, all of it is impressive.
http://www.seattlemusicnews.com/2016/06/07/kaki-king-the-neck-is-a-bridge-to-the-body-tour-triple-door/

Thimble Glock Premier in Norway

Honored that my thimble glockenspiel playing will be premiering in Norway on June 8th and June 10th at the Kortfilmfestivalen / The Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad for the screening of Concerning the Bodyguard, directed by Kasra Farahani and narrated by Salman Rushdie. If you're in Norway, go check it out! I"ll be on the west coast on tour with Kaki King ✨http://kortfilmfestivalen.no/en/pages

West coast tour with Kaki King

Very excited to announce that next month, i'll be opening for the amazing guitar kween Kaki King on the west coast. Would be lovely to see some of you there! <3 span="">
6/5 - Seattle @ The Triple Door
6/6 - Vancouver @ The Fox Theater
6/7 - Sidney, British Columbia @ The Charlie White Theatre
6/9 - Portland @ Mississippi Studios
6/10 - Petaluma, CA @ The Mystic Theater
6/12 - San Francisco @ Swedish American Hall
All tickets available via Kaki's website: http://www.kakiking.com/tour/

Impose Magazine photos from Brooklyn Bowl show 1/21/16 w/The Go! Team

a very special thanks to Kid Millions for joining me on drums at this show ✨

http://www.imposemagazine.com/photos/the-go-team-glockabelle-with-kid-millions-and-superhuman-happiness-at-brooklyn-bowl#1

"The sounds of the wires electrifying. Imagination overload exploded."

a generous review of my show last month in San Francisco at The Great American Music Hall by The Bay Bridged ✨✨
"Glockabelle, whose mix of Zelda old school computer fantasy driven sounds, subtle glam rock makeup reminders and rolling thunder heavy rock storm drumming left me witnessing something rare and unique. Drawing art from everyday life, like washing machines, less you spin me right round, more musical mechanicalness, delving beyond the sounds of the wires electrifying, Glockabelle brings a colorful new spin (uh-hum) to the mundane. Not to mention, thimbles on fingers playing glockenspiel, drifting drummer to sleep. All in all, the outside is loud noise carnage, but the layers are intricate and masterful. It's imagination overload exploded, the sounds of sugar (not literal), undertone interludes of The Doors (was that just me?) and a delightfully comical leading lady makes Glockabelle an enjoyable ride through unusual talent."
http://thebaybridged.com/2016/01/20/review-photos-tambo-rays-glockabelle-go-team-gamh/

January 2016 U.S. tour with The Go! Team

So excited to announce that this January I will be opening for The Go! Team from coast to coast!!! As a featured soloist on their album The Scene Between and having opened for them this past June in Europe, i'm stoked to be on the road with them again!!! 
Monday 1/18 - Great American Music Hall (San Fran, CA)
Tuesday 1/19 - The Roxy Theatre (West Hollywood, CA)
Thursday 1/21 - Brooklyn Bowl (Brooklyn, NY)
Friday 1/22 - The Sinclair (Cambridge, MA)
Saturday 1/23 - Underground Arts (Philadelphia, PA)
Sunday 1/24 - Black Cat (Washington, D.C.)
All tickets can be purchased via the Go! Team's website: http://www.thegoteam.co.uk/

Wolf BBQ on Pukekos TV

My Wolf BBQ video (directed by Nate Dorr) was featured in a compilation of new music videos curated by BJ Rubin's Pukekos TV. Other videos featured include:

Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian At Best
Wavves - Way Too Much
Sheer Mag - Fan The Flames
Glockabelle - Wolf BBQ
2 Chainz - Fed Watching (Featuring Pharrell)
James Hoff - Blaster
Mac DeMarco - Another One
Meghan Trainor - Dear Future Husband
Frankie Cosmos - I'm Crying
Pukekos TV - #40 from BJ Rubin on Vimeo.

Talking Casios + Les Chats on Radio Campus Paris

I was invited by Florent Taillandier last month on his program "Mon Instru et Moi" on Radio Campus Paris 93.9FM (France) to talk about why I play the Casio VL-Tone, why I abandoned le Conservatoire and decided I had to shred.

http://www.radiocampusparis.org/mon-instru-et-moi-16-le-casio-vl-tone-de-glockabelle/

Interview with Le Poisson Rouge // Show 9/29 @ LPR with Kid Millions

And here's an interview I did with LPR about my upcoming show on September 29th at Le Poisson Rouge featuring Kid Millions on drums. 

http://lepoissonrouge.com/q-and-a-glockabelle-vocal-influences-glockenspiel-technique-lydia-lunch-more/

Interview with the Lazy Frenchie

En français s'il vous plaît! Here's an interview I did with the Lazy Frenchie (aka Aurélie Hagan) on September 14, 2015 in which we discuss musical influences, my upcoming show at Le Poisson Rouge on September 29th with Kid Millions and much more.

http://thelazyfrenchie.com/2015/09/14/concert-a-nyc-glockabelle/

Interview with Impose Magazine

On September 11, 2015 (yes, R.I.P.), Impose Magazine included me in their feature "The Week in Pop" along with Dan Deacon and many others. We discussed portable music devices, the DIY scene, song inspirations, my collaboration with the Go! Team, the Toronto Film Festival and much more.

http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/chatter/week-in-pop-mild-high-club-cole-dan-deacon-glockabelle-giselle-mynx-gulfer-tattoo-money-doombird

Glockabelle at the Toronto Film Festival 2015

I'm so honored to have been asked to perform at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival. "Concerning the Bodyguard," a film directed by Kasra Farahani and narrated by Sir Salman Rushdie, was an official selection at this year's festival and features my performance of Erik Satie's "Gnossienne #1".  I performed both the Satie and a few other pieces for thimble glock and Casio VL-Tone at the TIFF Lightbox on September 14, 2015. Full concert below:

Glockabelle on London's Soho Radio

The french musician IKO Chérie interviewed me for her show "Little Trouble Girls" on Soho Radio and named my Wolf BBQ EP her record of the month. Have a listen :) 
https://www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/little-trouble-girls-01082015/

Parma Music Festival 2015

Next Friday 8/14, i'll be traveling up to Portsmouth, NH for the second performance of "Fantasmagoria" written for me by the young Peruvian composer Ivonne Paredes. The piece was premiered in February 2015 at the Scholes Street Studio in Brooklyn, NY. info @ www.parmamusicfestival.org/

The Toronto Film Festival, Sir Salman Rushdie and Glockabelle

Glockabelle was asked to demonstrate her unique glockenspiel thimble technique on the short film “Concerning the Bodyguard” by Kasra Farahani, narrated by Salman Rushdie. Farahani explains, “When I came across Annabelle’s piece it took me a moment to realize that the beautiful piece I was hearing was in fact a Satie piece that I was actually quite familiar with. Her lovely rendition is at once austere and flourished, as well as strange and familiar. Most importantly, it was the elegance of her piece that made me seek her out and ask to use her music in my film.” You can see the trailer for "Concerning the Bodyguard" below. It is an Official Selection for the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and will be shown this September.

Concerning the Bodyguard - Trailer from Kasra Farahani on Vimeo.

Premier of "Ne Touche Pas" Video on Culture Collide

"In what feels like a Michel Gondry-directed fever dream, New York based french-speaking art punk Annabelle Cazes, aka Glockabelle strategically attacks her keyboard and glockenspiel with thimbles on each finger in the video for her song "Ne Touche Pas." Off her latest EP Wolf BBQ which came out May 19, "Ne Touche Pas" ('don't touch' in English) is both precious and haunting, a sweet electronic frenzy in a minor key." 

http://www.culturecollide.com/feed/detail/6_questions_with_art_rocker_glockabelle_premiere_of_ne_touche_pas#.VcQj-BNViko

The Go! Team's "Catch Me on the Rebound" featuring Glockabelle

Back in March, The Go! Team released their latest album "The Scene Between." Ian Parton of the Go! Team asked me to be a featured singer on the track "Catch me on the Rebound" (video below). Ian then invited me to open for the Go! Team across the U.K. and France in June 2015, saying "Glockabelle's a casiotone virtuoso. It's a dreamy match having her support the go team round the UK. can't wait to see those fingers in actionnnnn."

"High fructose pop keys and hypnotizing, undulating rhythm" says Speak Into My Goodeye

A review of my Wolf BBQ EP from "Speak Into My Goodeye."

http://speakimge.com/free-download-synth-punk-
innovator-glockabelle-drops-maddening-track-wolf-bbq/

"It’s not too often that something comes across the desk (laptop) that leaps out and grabs you as soon as you hit play. That distinction has been undeniably bestowed upon NYC-based synth-punk artist Glockabelle over the years... (her) eccentric sound can be traced back to the rather unique circumstances of her upbringing. Born to Francophone parents, Cazes possesses the ability to sing in both French and English harnessing that fact to convey and have ideas or themes land that might otherwise not be possible by barriers presented by either language. She then furthered her aesthetic by experimenting with her classical trained piano background and Casio VL-Tones.“Wolf BBQ” features high fructose pop keys and hypnotizing, undulating rhythms. Not unlike what Julian Casablancas tried to achieve with his debut album with The Voidz. Where he may have let the focus slip into over saturation of a singular idea, Glockabelle keeps you guessing."

"Glockabelle's Got Wolf BBQ" on My Spilt Milk

The New Orleans music blog features the title track off my Wolf BBQ EP as part of their weekly "Freshly Spilt Milk Series."

"An experimental track from the musician, Glockabelle has produced a work that stands at the intersection between electronic music and pop-punk sensibilities."

http://myspiltmilk.com/glockabelles-got-wolf-bbq-and-breton-sound-illuminate

Glockabelle and Dr. Jart @ Sephora

Back in December, Dr. Jart asked me to do the music for their BB Cream Christmas Commercial. 'Tis no longer the season, but have a listen.

Wolf BBQ EP out today!!!

Get a copy on Amazon.com, iTunes or my bandcamp @ glockabelle.bandcamp.com

Wolf BBQ Video Premier on The A.V. Club

"Her new Wolf BBQ EP showcases her art-punk, synth-pop provocateur music with gleeful abandon, while still highlighting her exquisite musicianship. The Nate Dorr-directed video for single “Wolf BBQ” pairs a spastic track with an imagined 8-bit video game, in which the wolf protagonist does exactly what you’d expect: hits up a barbecue. The music is overstimulated pop (she refers to it as “glockrock”), as though someone gave Deerhoof a bunch of cocaine. Singing in both English and French, Cazes makes the song feels like the spawn of some Ritalin-addled pop culture collision." - Alex McCown for The A.V. Club

http://www.avclub.com/article/spasmodic-pop-glockabelle-goes-8-bit-crazy-exclusi-219265

"Glockabelle's New Wolf BBQ EP is Anarchic Enchantment" - SPIN

SPIN.com is premiering my Wolf BBQ EP today!!

"Proclaiming her style “glockrock,” the Francophone free-form bandleader Annabelle Cazes A.K.A. Glockabelle has crafted an intricate and beautifully composed pandemonium for her new EP Wolf BBQ. Incorporating her classical piano background with bold musical lawlessness, the New York-based Cazes — a featured instrumentalist on this year’s Go! Team album The Scene Between — experiments with synth-pop and glockenspiel within a dance-rock framework.Wolf BBQ is unanticipated adventure with each shimmer and bell glimmer on “Washing Machine” and the whimsical video game-esque “Gazelle.” - Margaret Farrell

http://www.spin.com/2015/05/glockabelle-wolf-bbq-ep-stream/

5/21/2015 Rough Trade NYC w/ Kaki King

This double bill of multi-talented, badass women, Kaki King and Glockabelle is not to be missed! Be on the lookout for surprise guests!
Posted by Girlie Action on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 

Wolf BBQ EP out 5/19/15

So excited to announce the release of my first EP which will be digitally distributed on May 19th so keep a look out! The dynamic cover art was done by Natali Koromoto Martinez 

Glockabelle and The Go! Team

Glockabelle is a featured soloist on the The Go! Team's (UK) new album "The Scene Between" which is available for streaming today on NPR Music ++ You can hear her singing the song "Catch Me on the Rebound." The album's official release is on 3/24 ♪┏(･o･)┛♪

Live Stream the Go! Team's album from NPR's website here

Glockabelle on WFMU

Glockabelle's version of the Patricia Carli classic "Arrête! Arrete! (Ne me touche pas)" was played on WFMU's "Dark Night of the Soul" on March 5, 2015 as well as her original piece "Seymour that wasn't a song." http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/59694

Glockabelle featured in The Deli Magazine

On March 10, 2015, Glockabelle was featured on the home page of The Deli Magazine:

"Are you ready for another totally unique, kickass woman making music out of NYC? Glockabelle is a classically trained pianist from Paris who, like a creature from Peter Pan, plays a lyre-shaped glockenspiel using eight thimbled fingers. She also experiments with two vintage Casiotones, sings in French and describes her music as “glockrock” - but maybe "glockensp-synth" is more accurate, considering the psych tendencies. Though her songs are most often delightful and whimsical, they will also feature some dark material. For instance, her chirpy Ramone’s cover “le KKK a pris mon bébé” translates into “The KKK took my baby”. Enchanté Glockabelle! See you at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn on March 27th. - Leora Mandel"

http://nyc.thedelimagazine.com/20834/glockensp-synth-glockabelle-pinoeer-works-on-0327

Premier of "Fantasmagoria," first classical piece for thimble glockenspiel

On February 28th 2015, Glockabelle performed the first classical piece for thimble glockenspiel composed for her by Peruvian composer Ivonne Paredes at the Scholes Street Studio in Brooklyn, NY. Glockabelle was joined by Ms. Paredes on percussion and Sean Goldsborough on midi synthesizer.

Glockabelle on the BJ Rubin Show (again!)

Glockabelle performs her song "Ne Touche Pas" on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN1) as part of the BJ Rubin Show:

Miami Art Basel 2014 - Impose Magazine

Glockabelle took a trip down to Miami Art Basel 2014 from December 4th to December 7th, accompanied by Ruben Sindo Acosta on drums. The four day trip commenced with a concert at Churchill's, followed by two consecutive nights at Audio Junkie's Fourth Annual Art Basel Distraction. Walter Wlodarczyk of Impose Magazine documented the Art Basel Distraction shows:

http://www.imposemagazine.com/photos/art-basel-music-distraction-2014#50