Gayance Releases ‘roaming’, a Seven-Track Album Built on a Decade of Movement

Gayance has released her second album, ‘roaming’, through Tru Thoughts. The seven tracks were assembled over roughly a decade of living between cities, drawing on time spent in Brazil, Brussels, Amsterdam and elsewhere, with a move to Lisbon eventually giving the material a place to settle.

The record follows her 2020 debut ‘Mascarade’, released on Rhythm Section International, and a period the artist has described as one of heavy personal and professional pressure. In Lisbon she turned toward herbalism and spirituality, and that shift registers in the album’s concerns: release, transformation, self-preservation. Her Haitian heritage and years inside international club culture run through the production, which treats movement less as a theme than as a working method.

Two tracks anchor the release. ‘Better For My Heart’, featuring Judith Little D, moves through house, R&B and gospel, arriving at something closer to catharsis than club utility. ‘Ensemble’, with Seb Hall and Gasper Muniz, is a first for Gayance in one respect: it is written in French, and it takes chosen family and the drawing of boundaries as its subject.

The album’s framing is deliberately geographic, but the specificity is emotional. Gayance has said the songs came from a period she did not recognise as a project while living it, and that some of them are about people she left behind. That tension between transit and attachment is what keeps ‘roaming’ from reading as a travelogue, and what gives it weight as a document of a life reorganised in motion.