WATCH: Glockabelle Drops ‘Gazelle 2.0: Two Casiotone Heroines Defeat the Evil Gazelle’

Sequel song featuring the legendary Space Lady celebrates original’s 10th anniversary with new version, video

June 17, 2025June 17, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2025, Figure 8 Studios, Gazelle 2.0: Two Casiotone Heroines Defeat the Evil Gazelle, Glockabelle, Perhapsy, Susan Dietrich, The Gazelle, The Space Lady

It’s been 10 years since glockenspiel maestro and Casio queen Glockabelle released her debut EP, Wolf BBQ, featuring its underground hit “The Gazelle.”

Now a decade later, the French-speaking New Yorker revamps the track for its milestone anniversary, collaborating with outsider icon and fellow keyboard warrior The Space Lady on this wild update, which sounds like Koji Kondo’s soundtrack to the original Legend of Zelda dipped in an ayahuasca brew.

And if you thought the OG was out there, wait until you get a load of “Gazelle 2.0: Two Casiotone Heroines Defeat the Evil Gazelle,” as well as its accompanying video directed by Perhapsy using a combination of green screen trickery and vivid, tripped-out animation.

According to the information I received, the tune “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!’”

In the video, 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, who rose to subterranean fame as a street musician in Boston and San Francisco during the ‘80s and ‘90s. “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!”

All instruments on “Gazelle 2.0” 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.

Earlier in February, Glockabelle curated the third annual Glockabelle’s LOVEFEST, an experimental music festival that took place this year at Unicorn Bar in Kingston, New York, and featured the likes of Wolf Eyes, Id M Theftable and Frenchy and the Punk.

The Space Lady, aka Susan Dietrich, remains a vibrant source of creativity at 77, and still very much active in the outsider music world.

Check out the video for below and make sure yer sitting down.