Occhi Featured Gal Musette is the artist name used by Grace Freeman, who began writing piano and guitar-based lyrical compositions and performing at open mics in her home city of San Clemente, CA at the age of 10.
In October 2021, Gal released her debut album, Backwards Lullaby, featuring a vocal duet with one of her biggest musical inspirations, Rufus Wainwright. The record explores the pangs of hopeless romances and unrequited love, what it’s like to move beyond idealized love into the acceptance of what is real and constant, as well as the cyclical nature of life and love in relationships. In July 2022, Gal released an orchestral EP consisting of three re-imagined cuts from Backwards Lullaby featuring the musicianship of Via Mardot, a talented multi-instrumentalist based in Detroit, Michigan.
Gal’s 2022 single “Je vois le ciel” is a tune sung entirely in French with lyrics heavily inspired by surrealist French poetry. The track features classical-inspired piano, haunting theremin (performed once more by Via Mardot), and plenty of harmonies that masterfully intertwine with contrasting bass and drums, driving the song with a consistent groove while grounding the whimsical treble tones.
Gal’s indie pop release “Plateau” was written when in bumper-to-bumper Los Angeles traffic and details a season of numbness and monotony as well as the death of idealization of life and love, while her new single “Moment” channels experiences of grief and loss through cinematic vocals and bittersweet melodies over intoxicatedly esoteric chamber pop soundscapes.
Discussing her latest release, Gal confides, “Moment was a song I wrote one verse for 7 years ago, but at some point, I lost the paper with lyrics on it and over time almost completely forgot the melody. Years later when I experienced a significant personal loss, I was struggling to express my grief and fell into a crippling season of writer’s block. By a stroke of serendipity, the lyric reappeared on a folded piece of paper in my glove compartment which triggered a memory of the melody, and led full circle to my finishing the song and beginning to let go.”
“Je vois le ciel”, “Plateau” and “Moment” are songs leading up to Gal Musette’s forthcoming album Pendulum, to be released this summer.
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