Gazelle 2.0: Two Casiotone Heroines Defeat the Evil Gazelle: This is the 10th anniversary of Glockabelle's French-English Gazelle track, originally released in 2015 on her debut EP, Wolf BBQ. To celebrate, Glockabelle sought out the help of her self-proclaimed Casio sister mom, The Space Lady, to join her on this epic new version. The Gazelle is a declaration of utmost freedom and independence, an anthem about answering to no one, a song of rebellion and relentless determination and doing whatever it takes to protect that freedom. : "No I am not your gazelle, and you, you are not my gazelle, but you stay stuck in my teeth like a caramel." The Space Lady reinforces this message, almost as if she were Glockabelle's fairy godmother, adding: "Your only chance at freedom is to rebel. Rebel! Rebel! Rebel! Rebel!" The Space Lady and Glockabelle find themselves on the verge of drowning in a river of caramel, headed straight for the chompers of the evil two-headed Gazelle, yet with their magical keyboards, stop and shatter the Gazelle's teeth before it's too late.
"I felt honored to participate in this extraordinary musical creation,” explains The Space Lady. “I love how [Glockabelle] used the two rhyming words “gazelle” and “rebel” — one depicting fleetness, and the other non-conformance. It goes without saying, the closer we are pushed toward tyranny the more we will need to embody both qualities. To paraphrase Dylan Thomas: We must not go gentle into that Dark Night!"
In this revamped version of the Gazelle, all instruments are performed and arranged by Glockabelle including her standard setup of two Casio VL-Tones, a Yamaha MR-10 drum machine as well as some epic vintage Soviet synthesizers: the Aelita (coined the "Queen of the Soviet Synthesizers") and the Formanta Polivoks. The track was recorded at Figure 8 Studios by Eli Crews and mixed and mastered by Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets.
The video was directed by Perhapsy (Derek Barber) using a combination of green screen footage and animation.
