Pastoral
13 September 2019
Mirth, Marvel and Maud
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Gazelle Twin’s critically-acclaimed Pastoral album is an intense exploration of a divided England, taking a look behind the picture postcard image of our countryside.
In the video for Pastoral track, Glory, Gazelle Twin’s monstrous jester character stalks the woodland landscape around the Epping Forest pollards, a knight falls to the ground screaming. This is bold new folk music rendered with drum machines and synths, and a visceral exploration of the state of Britain today.
Gazelle Twin will come to Mirth Marvel & Maud with support from prolific Waltham Forest resident and experimental musician Helm.
Pastoral is part of The People's Forest season - a series of events exploring our relationship with Epping Forest, interrogating the deep bond we have with forests and woodland, and how this relationship is culturally determined.
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How to get there
Full address: Mirth, Marvel and Maud, 186 Hoe St, Walthamstow, London E17 4QH
By train: Walthamstow Central (Victoria Line and London Overground)
By bus: 34, 97, 215, 275, 357
Who's Involved
Gazelle Twin
Elizabeth Bernholz, better known by her stage name Gazelle Twin, is a British electronic music composer, producer and musician.
Forged in a rural idyll in Middle-England, Gazelle Twins' new album Pastoral exhumes England’s rotten past, and shines a torch over its ever-darkening present.
Helm
Helm is Luke Younger, a London-based sound artist and musician.
He has released five studio albums and three EPs of textural experimental music, exploring a relationship between acoustic, electronic and real-world sounds.
His first album ‘To An End’ was released on his own label ALTER in 2010. Influenced by 20th century electroacoustic music and Britain’s esoteric post-industrial underground, the record contained two long-form pieces that mixed haunting, respiratory-themed tape music with warm meditative ambience.
