“Deep England felt like a timeless piece of avant-garde performance art, part catharsis and part exorcism. Like Brexit, it could run and run” - The Times

“The layers of powerful, stinging voices, the costumes, the choreography and the strobe lights: the show has total command over its audience.” - The Quietus

“Deep England is a phenomenal accomplishment”. - Get In Her Ears

“A lament for humanism. This is the future of spiritual music”. - If Only

Gazelle Twin and NYX: electronic drone choir present Deep England, coming together to create an otherworldly electric chorus, expanding time and space.

Replacing electronic sounds with human voices, this collaborative performance channels the dizzying anxiety of post-truth Britain, in a distorted dreamscape of whispers and operatic chaos.

Punctuated with acoustic glitching, polyphonic overtone and ambient textures, the performance amplifies the many layers of Gazelle Twin’s acclaimed album Pastoral, as well as original NYX compositions, and English pagan and sacred music.

The project was first commissioned by NYX: electronic drone choir and was performed on 9 December 2018 as part of a collaborative series at London’s Oval Space. The project was further developed into a full-length production for London Jazz Festival in Queen Elizabeth Hall on 20th November 2019 with support of Serious, Arts Council England and Help Musicians UK.

Production Credits

NYX Vocalists: Adelaide Pratoussy, Cecilia Forssberg, Natalie Sharp, Ruth Corey, Shireen Querishi, Sian O’Gorman

Compositions and Music Direction: Elizabeth Bernholz and Sian O’Gorman


NYX Creative Directors: Sian O’Gorman, Philippa Neels and Joshua Thomas


Gazelle Twin Management: Steve Malins


Movement Director: Imogen Knight


Sound Associate: Peter Rice


Production Design and Costume: Chloe Lamford


Stylist: Anna Josephs

photo credit: Jamie Cameron