Ensemble feat. Seb Hall & Gaspar Muniz
Gayance

Ahead of the release of her forthcoming album ‘roaming’, Lisbon-based Haitian-Canadian producer, vocalist and DJ Gayance shares, ‘Ensemble’, a rich and reflective collaboration with Seb Hall and Gaspar Muniz. Blending Brazilian boogie, jazz-fusion influences and Quebécois songwriting, the track arrives as one of the album’s most personal moments, exploring family, grief and the courage required to break inherited cycles.

Written in Brooklyn following a period of intense family upheaval in 2023, ‘Ensemble’ finds Gayance stepping into what she describes as the role of the “family’s alchemist”. As the eldest grandchild of her mother’s Haitian-Cuban lineage, she uses the song to confront the emotional inheritances, silences and unresolved histories that have echoed through generations of her family.

Astrology became an important framework for understanding those experiences. Gayance points to a recurring pattern of Scorpio Moon placements throughout her maternal family, an astrological signature often associated with emotional intensity, privacy and the tendency to keep vulnerabilities hidden beneath the surface. In her own chart, she identifies strongly with having Pluto in Scorpio in the Fourth House, a placement she describes as the mark of a “cycle breaker” – someone tasked with transforming inherited family dynamics rather than unconsciously repeating them but, also someone who won’t be able to thrive in her hometown

Those ideas became central to the writing of “Ensemble”. Rather than accepting the familiar role of the self-sacrificing eldest daughter, the song documents a conscious decision to examine the foundations she comes from and reshape them on her own terms. Where previous generations may have survived through secrecy, emotional self-protection or unspoken loyalties, Gayance seeks something different, turning inherited pain into creative sovereignty, understanding into action and silence into expression.

This process of transformation runs throughout the song. Built around the refrain “Ensemble, jusqu’au paradis”, the track functions as a mantra for healing and patience, imagining a future where old family structures can give way to deeper and more honest forms of connection. For Gayance, it represents a refusal to perpetuate cycles of silence, and a commitment to creating new bonds from the fragments of the past.

The track was created alongside longtime collaborators Seb Hall and Gaspar Muniz in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Gayance first met Seb Hall during one of her many trips to Brazil in 2019, later connecting with carioca musician and producer Gaspar Muniz through their shared creative community. Working from the pair’s home studio, the sessions developed organically through conversations, friendship and musical exchange, resulting in a warm, collaborative atmosphere that permeates the finished recording. While the mixing was done by funkywhat in Montreal, her dear friend Zach Frampton added some additionnal keys to the final song, which added some jazzy feel to the piece.

Musically, ‘Ensemble’ draws inspiration from the sophisticated songwriting and genre-fluid approach of pioneering Québécoise artist Diane Tell, whose work bridged jazz-fusion, bossa nova and MPB. That influence can be heard throughout the track’s lush arrangements and understated groove, which weave together Brazilian rhythmic sensibilities, 1980s jazz-funk textures and Gayance’s distinctive contemporary production style.