About the 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 , 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 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. 

About Glockabelle:

Glockabelle is a Casio VL-Tone and glockenspiel shredder who sings in both French and English.Her frenetic sound stems from a combination of inspiration and circumstance. Born to Francophone parents, Glockabelle received an education stateside and in France. After being introduced to the Casio VL-Tone by a neighbor in Paris, Glockabelle began blending her classical piano techniques with 8-bit synthpop sounds resulting in a hyperactive mixture of rhythm and tone. She also invented a unique technique for playing the glockenspiel: not with mallets but with eight sewing thimbles.

This unique sound led Glockabelle to a 2008 tour with Fiery Furnaces, landing her a set at the Bonnaroo Music Festival. She has performed at The Toronto Film Festival, Miami Art Basel, SXSW, The Montreux Jazz Festival, Lincoln Center, SXSW, on The Chris Gethard Show,  The Paris Cinema Festival and at The Museum of Modern Art.. She has opened for Lightning Bolt, Marnie Stern, The Space Lady, Mdou Moctar, Wolf Eyes, James Chance and the Contortions, Kaki King, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, and The Go! Team. Glockabelle was a featured vocalist on the Go! Team’s album The Scene Between with the song, “Catch Me on the Rebound.”

She self-released her first EP in May 2015, which was hailed by SPIN as “Anarchic Enchantment” and the A.V. Club as “[showcasing] her art-punk, synth-pop provocateur music with gleeful abandon, while still highlighting her exquisite musicianship. Her ‘Wolf BBQ’ EP is a collection of mostly unreleased tracks. The result is a collection of equally playful and technically complex tracks filled with surf and punk tendencies, all brought together with her intricate synths and controlled madness.”

Since 2023, she has curated and hosted her own annual experimental music festival, Glockabelle’s LOVEFEST in Delhi, NY.

This year, she has been chosen as one for eight artists from around the world by the all-girl Japanese punk sensation, Otoboke Beaver, to perform at the Sled Island Music Festival in Calgary, Alberta. She will be sharing a bill with The Mummies and Sweeping Promises. 

About The Space Lady

The Space Lady aka Susan Dietrich is an outsider music icon, known for her ethereal sound and wearing a stunning winged helmet while playing versions of contemporary pop music on a vintage accordion and a retro-futuristic sounding Casio keyboard. In the 1980s and 1990s, Susan was a street musician in Boston, Massachusetts and San Francisco, playing haunting ethereal covers of rock n roll classics. Susan got the name “The Space Lady” from fans and from a newspaper contest. She upgraded from accordion in 1983 to the then-new Casiotone MT-40 battery-operated keyboard, played through a battery-operated amp. London’s Night School Records produced “The Space Lady’s Greatest Hits” in the winter of 2013, containing a dozen remastered tracks from a CD entitled “The Space Lady Live in San Francisco” of recordings she’d made on a cassette recorder in 1990 and later digitized. In 2014 she became even more well known when her first LP ended up on The Guardian‘s list of The 101 Strangest Records on Spotify.