Active since 2012, Gyves is an electronic solo project from Georgia rooted in Minimal Synth, Darkwave, and Industrial.
After a long hiatus since the debut album, “Lamb in drunken crowd,” released in June 2016, Gyves returns with an arcane and intriguing, multifaceted sound, as usual, strictly hardware-composed on a vintage Roland MC-505 Groovebox.
Gyves unveils a DIY Official Video for “Fisherman Song”, the second excerpt lifted from the forthcoming 6-track album, “Six Laments Before Silence”, due out on June 12, 2026.
An hazy electronic downtempo ballad, “Fisherman Song” infuses dark maritime lyrics into a blanketing atmospheric and droning, organ-like, sound tapestry, held down by a hypnotic shuffling, crisp drum pattern and a snakingly elastic fidgety bass line, that shivers and swells with glaring earnest intensity, to blend with strained, fearful vocal whispers, layered with a delay of calm wistful words, to conjure the illusion of an echo, or dual vocals, shifting, after a transformative tambourine-shaked interlude, into a repetitive ritual chant alongside a loose, syncopated and chinking groove, fading out next to an ape looping laugh.
In the paired DIY Official Video, a beautiful grey, misty seashore with forest green trees sets the symbolic backdrop for a person wearing a long black coat. Evocative aerial and underwater views evoke mixed sentiments such as awe, lostness, powerlessness, fear, hope, and comfort. The sun briefly appears, but is a pale white color underneath the monochromatic clouds. After building a bonfire, the figure, whose face is never shown, stands high above the shore on a clifftop under a full moon reflection before finally arriving at a powerful lighthouse next to the dark, stormy waters.
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