As Glen Gabriel himself put it: "It's only me... G. I am working on different projects whereas one is called GLIM. It is on my top friends list if you want to listen. There you will find me working with the FANTASTIC Mille. Feel free to check it out. We will get more songs onto there, promise. Then I am working with the fantastic(!!) Bia and her poems. Right now the project is called Music & Poetry but that is subject to possible change. You are able to see her fantastic work by just clicking: Bia or G."
Influences
"I have A LOT of influences. But when growing up, there was A LOT of movies that I was watching and I just couldn't help but LOVING the music! I was kinda sick and tired of hearing lyrics and the same ones over and over. So I felt that "hey! Here is some music with NO lyrics".
"Therefore, my influences are: John Williams, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, James Newton Howard, Howard Shore, John Ottman, Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer, Mike Oldfield, The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Chrystal Method, Rage Against the Machine... With many others. The order that I gave above has NOTHING to do with preference but was just the order it came to mind."
"So there you have my music influences. Thanks a million for checking my music out and I really hope you enjoy it all. Obviously I will never make the same type of music as my great influences but thanks to them I can make music."
Sounds Like
"My music sounds like my own. I guess it has this film music kind of taste. Many says that it is relaxing, others say it is ambient and people have even said it is haunting. I guess that I am missing the 'action' feature so I will start to work on that. While I am definitely into composing music for movies, I want to continue getting this music out on radio and heard by everyone. Pop, soul, rap, rock, funk, techno, electro and country (etc., etc.) isn't the ONLY music that you should hear from the radio. I consider film type of music and just instrumental (not only classic) should be on the radio too. I don't know why it hasn't been, but if you really look at it, that is probably the MOST listened to music in the world today. I don't think there is a single soul that HASN'T watched a movie today. Well, there you go. Therefore the music should be featured out there on radio too! That is what I want to accomplish here as well."
Glen Gabriel Jansson (aka “G” and “Glen Gabriel”) likes to see himself as a normal person who happened to like music since early age and took it upon himself to start learning how to compose it himself. At the age of 7 he was given his first little electronic synthesizer. He started immediately playing the tunes he would hear. He tried piano lessons but it didn’t do him any good because he didn’t feel he learned anything useful. He decided at that time that he would not doing anything else than just performing the music he had in his head. Glen’s favorite thing at first was to listen to music from movies and then copy them to his piano playing. He would sit and train himself to hear all the instruments in the song and play them individually.
While Glen has a vast array of interests and hobbies such as sports, acting, drawing, painting, dancing, writing and filmmaking, his strongest point was always his music.
Glen Gabriel’s first musical performance was a Christmas show in school 1996 where his music was played to the whole school. Since then there wasn’t much done except for having performed dancing on stage with audiences ranging between 500 to 900 people. In short, he has never had any stage fright.
Due to devoting most of his time to work and traveling between 1997 and 2005 he didn’t have much time for composing music. His main attention was to learn and listen to other music styles that suited him. Glen’s taste in music varies between movie music to electronica, 70s funk and disco, hard rock, drum n bass, big beat, breakbeat and many other styles. Glen’s biggest and most burning desire in music has been from films.
During 1997-2005 the industry of music being composed in synchronization with computers had grown to a large degree and Glen realized that if he was going to start making music again it would have to happen together with a computer. It wasn’t this old manual playing on some synthesizer.
Then in December 2005 Glen was introduced to the terrific technology of digital or should we say “computerized-music-making” where you have a plastic keyboard hooked up to a computer and can compose all kinds of music.
It took Glen 2-3 weeks to really get a hold of this “new” technology and he started to make a few songs after some time. During the time of his composing Glen developed his skills and way of playing as well. When Glen came to the end of his first album he had a big array of different types of music. There was soundtrack-like music, electro, techno, classical and a little world music to it. With this mixture of music styles Glen was thinking what order could he should put these songs so it still make sense and could be sold? The final conclusion was to publish his first album in CHRONOLOGICAL order!
Glen’s whole new album is put in chronological order with 15 individual songs because he thought it probably made it kind of interesting for anyone to listen to his songs in the sequence that he made them. In this way, anyone could follow Glen’s development in his music and also hear what he felt like trying out at the time.
It isn’t really known as to what kind of music genre Glen is composing. Some say that it is classical, film music, electro etc. In asking Glen what genre he would consider the music to be he would say the “G-genre”.
You can purchase the music on CD Baby or by clicking on the buttons here!
MORE SITES YOU CAN FIND GLEN GABRIEL’S MUSIC
Trig.comGlen Gabriel.comG @ Myspace.com
i really like your new music, and with a world trip coming for me next year, i am going to use some of your tracks for the DVD video of it all,if you approve of this of course. i'll be sure to send you a copy!
