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Elizabeth Bernholz has always rattled our collective cages but this is something else - some next-level, state-of-the-nation brilliance! A vital, baffling &...
Deep England
  1. Glory
  2. Folly
  3. Fire Leap
  4. Better In My Day
  5. Throne
  6. Deep England
  7. Golden Dawn
  8. Jerusalem *bonus track on download coupon)

Gazelle Twin & NYX

Deep England

NYX Collective Records
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    Released: 19th Mar 2021

    £11.99
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Few capture the darkening edge of Britain’s malaise as magnificently as Elizabeth Bernholz.

This startling electronic-choral expansion of 2018’s ‘Pastoral’ is a stroke of genius, with NYX Electronic Drone Choir’s haunting vox layering up the terror to tantalising levels. Dive in if you dare!

 

Alongside the haunting presence of nyx’s electronic drone choir, gazelle twin’s experimental electronics take on a whole new plane of existence, enveloping us in a gloriously dark realm of stark vocal harmonies & insidious pagan folk. Rooted in English pagan and sacred music, Deep England is an electronic-choral expansion of Gazelle Twin’s 2018 album Pastoral (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray). Here, tracks from Pastoral, an album whose political themes have only intensified since its original release, are radically reworked and presented alongside original compositions by NYX, Paul Giovanni and William Blake. Gazelle Twin (aka Elizabeth Bernholz) and NYX, the electronic drone choir reshaping the role of the traditional female choir, originally created Deep England for live performance with Movement Director Imogen Knight, Sound Associate Peter Rice and Designer Chloe Lamford. The performance, described by The Times in their 4* review as a “spellbinding febrile techno-pagan pageant”, premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in November 2019. Deep England was transferred to the studio soon after, and the resulting album shows a powerful and often dreamlike Jarman-esque depiction of a country divided by its many selves. “Here lies our ancient future, Deep England: our hope and compassion in the chokehold of power and glory. Hand in hand, here we cry our rage: summoning a lament into the ether, a divine androgynous force, a transcendental purge of the dizzying chaos of post-truth Britain” - Gazelle Twin & NYX.

Josh: I write this on Halloween as I watch Francis Ford Coppola's 'Dracula'. While stories of Vampires would make many quiver with fear, the folk-horror musical collaboration by Gazelle Twin & NYX Electronic Drone Choir is by far the most excitingly terrifying experience of 2021. The intense blend of claustrophobic electronica and traditional English folk instrumentation makes for one of the most original albums of the century.