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# Gazelle Twin live at Rough Trade
- URL: https://www.glamglare.com/music/20141118gazelle-twin-live-at-rough-trade/
- Published: 2014-11-19T04:21:37.000Z
- Updated: 2014-11-19T04:21:37.000Z
- Author: Oliver Bouchard
- Tags: Music, #oliver-2, #wordpress, #Import 2024-07-26 07:44

For a long time, [Gazelle Twin](http://www.gazelletwin.com/?ref=glamglare.com), the multi-media project of Elizabeth Bernholz, was brought to stage only for rare occasions. But for her latest album *Unflesh*, she embarked on a long tour, which finally brought her to New York.

It was clear that Gazelle Twin’s live show would center around the blue-hooded, faceless character she introduced in various videos. What I didn’t expect was the minimalism and the clarity of the presentation – there were no smoke and mirrors involved: one desk with a SP-404, operated by a no less mysterious figure in a red hoodie (Elizabeth’s husband Jez Bernholz as we learned later), an effect pedal and a mic. She even eschews a stand, because she doesn’t need it: she moves and dances around the stage for most of the time – not in a twigs-ish seductive manner, but rather unsettling and awkward, which works perfectly for the sentiment of *Unflesh*.

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She played a relatively short set of tracks exclusively from *Unflesh* – understandable, because the different mood of her previous album *The Entire City* would have required at least a costume change and probably broken the intensity of the show. She opened the show like the album with the title track and a long scream. From that there was little relief: her music is dominated by hammering beats and by the marvelous sound of Rough Trade you could feel it with your entire body. The only slowdown was for *Child*, a song about childhood dreams, which she performed mostly by recording loops of her own vocals. Then the show culminated in the develish aerobics of *Excorcise* – for her reported [aversion against](http://thequietus.com/articles/16329-gazelle-twin-interview-unflesh?ref=glamglare.com) physical excercise she is in remarkably good shape and bounced up and down on stage like a rubber ball.

I loved this show: it was stripped down to the essence of what *Unflesh* is about. Gazelle Twin is a great performer and I’m curious what she comes up with next. 

  
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