Gazal

what is your music about?

Welcome to curated chaos - the working through. Traversing the diverse sounds of pop, GAZAL’s music is cathartic and captivating in equal measure. GAZAL has been ruminating on her project for years, in the meantime, working behind the scenes, collaborating as topliner and co-writer with YDE, George Alice, Lola Scott, East AV3; most recently having worked on the East AV3 ft. George Alice track, ‘Do It All Again’.

As she moves out from behind the scenes and into her project, she delves into the scattered feelings of nostalgia, growing pains and the art of second-guessing offer inspiration alongside contemporaries, Mura Masa, Aurora ad Bon Iver, as GAZAL carves a space for introspection on the Sydney music scene. Fusing folk, grime and pop, GAZAL’s hybrid soundscape is unified by her eclectic voice, which cuts to the core. Twists of songwriting and curiosities of craft which could only hail from confusion unravelled culminate in the electric sound of wandering thoughts, finally laid to rest.

tell us about your new single

Wistful meets whimsy in GAZAL’s debut release, ‘Running With The Lights Out’, the song was brought to life through the frustration and lack of perception she found herself stuck in - the inability to see things for what they really are. The synth-pop track sees euphoria - fleeting and fragmenting - held. The initial quandary leads GAZAL to prove to herself that a shift in thinking transforms the mundane into the transcendent. GAZAL’s spirited beat began in the studio with a simple guitar riff morphed into speculative synth layers creating a moody atmosphere that was an ode to life that dawns as the sun sets. She finds the most clarity when she takes herself out of the reality that is cemented by sunlight. When the mind steers into deeper, darker uncharted waters, love is an anchor. To be held, in the solace of nightfall, is to unwind into a reality that is simple, sweet, solid.

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EUPHORIA

Like a wave you washed into my existence. Overwhelming my sensibilities, you took hold of my mind, making it your own. There you lay in effervescent yellows, pinks and blues. My eyelids shut, yet the perpetual darkness that I am used to is missing. Transported. You are all I can see. I’m breathless, gasping for air.

where did you go?

In an instant you left me. Fleeting. The wave has receded from the shoreline, and the tide has returned. I return to my familiar home, welcomed back by a picture of blankness.

comedown

Sometimes when I rest my eyes the effervescent yellows, pinks and blues pay a temporary visit. I sit in a nostalgic longing, waiting desperately for their acquaintance. Existing in an eternal state of infatuation, I am suspended in thought. Something that is hard to find has proved harder to understand.

looking into the dark

Does anybody see you the way I do? Like a wave you continue to come and go. Washing back into the ocean, your electric light is turned off leaving me in the darkness. I’m trying to keep you in my grasp, but the water slips through my fingers leaving me cold. How can I catch you and keep you close? In the darkness that you have left me in, I’m deserted in an introspective abyss. The lights are out and I’m digging deeper and deeper. I’m searching for the surface, hoping to catch a breath but I can’t find it. There are moments that I spot a glimpse of light, yet as quickly as it comes into my orbit it escapes again.

Will someone pull me out?

I’LL JUST KEEP RUNNING

I’m caught in a riptide trying to chase your electricity. I dream about waking up with you and ending my search. Living in an eternal bliss of light. Yet I know now that you will always be fleeting, and I will never be freed from your intoxicating spell. I will remain subject to your agency. Constantly searching and hoping you’ll stay…

I am Running with the lights out.