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Gabriel Kahane
Indie / Classical / Regional Mexican

why can't we just go swimming??



BROOKLYN, New York
United States

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Member Since12/25/2005
Band Websitewww.gabrielkahane.com
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Jul 17 2009 10:00P
Rockwood Music Hall New York, New York
Sep 12 2009 7:30P
Turner Hall Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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   About Gabriel Kahane

Born at home in 1981 (midwife, Venice Beach), singer, pianist, and composer Gabriel Kahane was reared in medium-sized cities on both coasts of the continental United States by a psychologist mother (relational) and concert pianist father (unaffiliated). While a convenient and tidy psychological reading might suggest that his hybrid of blistering, chromatic counterpoint and traditional singer-songwriting belies some sort of defiance of the classical environment in which he was raised, Gabriel would no doubt argue that such theories are half-baked. “They were listening to Joni Mitchell too!” he retorts. And yet, Mr. Kahane’s work defies classification through his sonically challenging, emotionally resonant, yet deeply accessible music.

After an uneventful childhood marked by the quotidien, in which Gabriel found himself singing in operas in Germany, competing in international chess tournaments, and obsessively compiling baseball statistics, the young man discovered a pair of rickety Martin guitars in the attic of his parents’ Tudor home on Cobbs Hill Drive. Experiments ensued, though they would give way to a fascination with the piano toward the end of Mr. Kahane’s high school years.

Fast forward to 2008. The fall witnessed the release of Gabriel's self-titled debut, heralded by prefix magazine as "music for the ears, the intellect and the soul, and an auspicious debut LP from one of the most prodigious talents we’ve got."

Recorded primarily in March and April of 2008 in Seattle, Hoboken, and two Boroughs of New York City, the album is a testament to Gabriel’s catholic musical pursuits. With twenty musicians supporting him, Mr. Kahane’s debut offers snippets of string quartets juxtaposed with strummy strum folk song, brass chorales right beside jangly piano pop, and yet, he would argue, it’s very much of a piece, an album meant to be heard as a whole.

Who is this Gabriel Kahane? And why can’t we just go swimming?

Gabriel’s best known work, Craigslistlieder (2006)-- an eight movement song cycle which comprises settings of anonymous classified ads from craigslist.org—has been heard in venues ranging from the dankest bars of the Lower East Side to Carnegie Hall, in a recital by critically-acclaimed baritone Thomas Meglioranza. The summer of 2008 witnesses the premiere of Kahane’s For The Union Dead, a new song cycle on poems by Robert Lowell for chamber ensemble, at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland.

But whither the catholic approach?

Among his varied credits as a performer, Gabriel has appeared in recital with Grammy winning bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff throughout Europe, toured the Schumann Piano Quintet with the Mark Morris Dance Group, and accompanied violinist Hilary Hahn in the slow movement of the Sibelius Violin Concerto in yet another dirty bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He recently performed at the Apollo Theater with Rufus Wainwright, Elvis Costello, and Bill Frisell for a taping of Costello's new TV show on the Sundance Channel, and has recorded with the likes of Sufjan Stevens, Loudon Wainwright III, and former Nickel Creek front-man Chris Thile.

Much in demand as a composer of chamber music, Gabriel recently completed a large-scale solo piano work for pianist Natasha Paremski, and is writing a short piece for his father, Jeffrey Kahane, to be premiered at Lincoln Center in April of 2009. An evening-length work exploring his family's genealogy and journey from Germany to the United States will premiere in the spring of 2010 in Los Angeles and New York.

The play within a play?

An avid theatre artist, Kahane has collaborated extensively with the Obie-winning New York City-based downtown theatre company Les Freres Corbusier, serving as musical director for a number of their productions including Hell House, A Very Merry Unauthorized Scientology Pageant, and the Los Angeles production of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. In addition, the composer was recently commissioned by the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia to write an evening length work for their American Musical Voices Project, and is also the recipient this year of a new fellowship through the Shen Family Foundation and the Public Theater with the aim to create and develop new work.


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Ana





Jun 2 2009 12:24 AM

very classic/fun. well done

p.s. come to Portugal one of this days, we are right next to Spain ;)
Christian





Feb 16 2009 2:40 AM

Gabriel, you are a genius. I love how your music is such a sweet discord of innerlocking melodies. It changes my life with every resounding note.

Come to Portland!
Miles: [[SUMMER!]]&trade





Dec 27 2008 10:18 PM

dude, i really enjoy your music. it is very relaxing and entertaining. keep up the good work.
CHOPIN





Dec 5 2008 10:07 PM

Thank you for adding your gabriel in my space, I like your
music. and I like
the piano. I am studying piano to be here where I live
a great concert.
elizabeth!





Nov 22 2008 8:27 AM

Gabe - great show last night!
Katie





Nov 22 2008 6:52 AM

Crap, I missed you in Cambridge tonight!! I may never forgive myself. Maybe come back to the Boston area in the near future?...I swear I'll be there, front row next time.

~Katie
Katie





Sep 23 2008 11:31 PM

Thanks for the add! Your music is gorgeous, and "Craigslistlieder" is awesome.
Hope to see you in Boston someday!
Pearl and the Beard





Sep 19 2008 3:29 AM

Gracious to make your acquaintance, Friend...

Family-ly, Pearl and the Beard
Seequill





Aug 28 2008 8:09 PM

Hey, I just listened to you on soundcheck! Beautiful work.
See you around :)
Betsy





Aug 9 2008 4:55 AM

Love it. Which? All.

Nicely and again nicely done. Hope to see you soon.

Betsy
RICH CAMPBELL





Jul 29 2008 1:54 PM

Hey Gabe,

The new songs sound great....

-Rich
Jonny Rodgers





Jul 29 2008 12:18 PM

Enjoying "slow down" and the other songs you have up here. Great soundtrack for my morning tea...
Rachel Sierra





Jul 29 2008 12:13 AM

Sounds spectacular cousin! I love the latest evolution in your sound!
love,
cousin
elizabeth!





Jul 28 2008 5:24 PM

But we can! I'm going swimming TODAY, in fact!
hollace m metzger





Jul 17 2008 6:42 PM

tricky message title ;)

i must admit, i thought it was an invite to do vocals! then, my imagination went wild for an easily-entertained half hour or so.

however, i am complimented just the same and wanted to inform you that it is on my calendar. definitely looking forward to this...

yours, in gratitude and sending wishes for une bon voyage (but please do give 'home' a kiss for me before you go),
Hollace
rob moose





Jul 16 2008 3:29 AM

time for a new blog! hope yours doesn't offend your mother. i do miss the exclusiveness of "were you at the dinner party?" it sounded like a lost novella from a wistful, slightly paunched f. scott fitzgerald. anyway gabriel, watch out for those tomatoes and, you know, you should really try apple flavored pedia lite: it's doing wonders for my potassium levels.
Lukas Ligeti





Jul 15 2008 7:43 PM

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that my new album Afrikan Machinery is out now on Tzadik Records.
Check out some of the tracks on my profile! You can buy the CD here, here, or here.
It's also available on iTunes.
afmachcover 
 
Best Wishes,
Lukas Ligeti
Herald! Frankenstein





Jul 14 2008 11:23 PM

so sweet, so good. can't wait to hear the entire album.
Reggie





Jul 12 2008 3:22 PM

Hi!Gabriel**And welcome to my myspace it is for people who love and enjoy listening to others sing or play beautiful music.
**your music sounds awesome thank you for being here your friend Reggie
Dan Tepfer





Jul 10 2008 12:00 PM

because water skiing is more fun!

in other news, so glad the paris gig is working out. seeya soon,

--d
♪♫Nancy♫





Jul 8 2008 12:55 AM

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Robin Hill





May 4 2008 10:57 PM

Thanks for following me Gabriel, great music, keep playing!
Anna
VICTOR VAZQUEZ





May 4 2008 5:03 AM

Great music :O)











V.
AMANDA ERIN





Apr 21 2008 6:09 AM

Your performance at SMU-

too krunk, sir!

Congrats.
AMY BIERHAUS!!





Apr 15 2008 9:15 AM

SO SMOOOOOOTH AND NIIIIIIIIIIIICE!!!!

Thanks mates, AMY :O)


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