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News : Gabriel Kahane Arranges Sufjan Stevens Song
July 9th, 2009 by Wesley Verhoeve
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Pitchfork reports the following about Family Records‘ own Gabriel Kahane:
Sufjan is revisiting his Rabbit period with an upcoming LP called Run Rabbit Run, which reimagines the Enjoy album as a string opus played by Brooklyn quartet Osso (who contributed to Sufjan’s Illinois). The project was brainstormed by the National’s Bryce Dessner, and features arrangements by composers Nico Muhly, Michael Atkinson, Olivier Manchon, Maxim Moston, Rob Moose, and Gabriel Kahane. Run Rabbit Run is out October 6 via Asthmatic Kitty and features artwork by Jessica Dessner (sister of the National’s Bryce and Aaron).
News : Gabriel Kahane Starts Residency
June 1st, 2009 by Wesley Verhoeve
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BrooklynVegan reports: “Kahane kicks off a residency at the Rockwood Music Hall on June 1st (tonight). He’ll be there Mondays at 10pm through the rest of the month. On June 12th, Kahane also performs at PS 139 Auditorium (330 Rugby Rd, Brooklyn) as part of the Ditmas Park Concert Series… More info here.
Gabriel Kahane – 2009 Tour Dates
June 01 New York, NY – Rockwood Music Hall #
June 08 New York, NY – Rockwood Music Hall #
June 12 Brooklyn, NY – Ditmas Park Concert Series PS 139
June 15 New York, NY – Rockwood Music Hall #
June 22 New York, NY – Rockwood Music Hall #
June 29 New York, NY – Rockwood Music Hall #
August 16-29 Orcas Island, Washington Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival
# June Residency
News : New Release: Gabriel Kahane – LA
April 9th, 2009 by Wesley Verhoeve
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Coming 4/21 on iTunes! Also check into KCRW, out of Los Angeles, a great radio station and they just started playing Gabriel’s song Durrants during Anne Litt’s show. What is even more exciting it will be that featured this week on the iTunes Indie Spotlight!
Gabriel Kahane – LA (Single)
A – LA
B – The Faithful
C – LA (Acoustic)
News : A Big Week For Us
April 5th, 2009 by Wesley Verhoeve
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Created by the lovely Jocelyn of Pearl and the Beard! Click on the thumbnails to enlarge.
News : Gabriel Kahane Goes On Tour
March 24th, 2009 by Wesley Verhoeve
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Gabriel Kahane April Tour
April 16 - Portland, OR Mississippi Studios*
April 19 - Santa Cruz, CA Cayuga Vault*
April 20 - San Francisco, CA Cafe du Nord*
April 22 - Los Angeles, CA The Mint*
April 27 – Minneapolis, MN 400 Bar
April 29 - Chicago, IL St. Paul’s Church
April 30 – Ann Arbor, MI Kerrytown Concert House
May 1 - New York, NY Joe’s Pub
* double-bills with Holcombe Waller.
Gabriel Kahane will tour solo this April following the popular and critical success of his self-titled album. With a wide range of forms and styles at his disposal, Kahane fashions concerts of songs that draw from literature, imagination, and personal experience, spinning musical threads that are at once both monumental and unassuming.
Praised by Pitchfork for “abandoning pop’s expected patterns”, Kahane’s debut disc is a testament to his catholic musical pursuits.
“There is nobody else within the pop-music sphere making music even remotely as sophisticated as what you’ll hear on ‘Gabriel Kahane’.” says Prefix Magazine of the album. “This is music for the ears, the intellect and the soul, and an auspicious debut LP from one of the most prodigious talents we’ve got.” Greg Sandow of The Wall Street Journal raved, “I’ve seen classical-music professionals go into ecstasies when Mr. Kahane sings these songs live, and the young classical musicians who play with him are completely devoted….Something really good is starting to happen here, and it’s well worth checking out.” Kahane keeps company in all corners of the musical universe, having collaborated with indie rock favorites Sufjan Stevens and Rufus Wainwright as well as with classical stalwarts Jeremy Denk, Hilary Hahn, and Thomas Quasthoff. Photo by Staciann.
News : Gabriel Kahane Appears on ‘Dark Was The Night’
February 20th, 2009 by Wesley Verhoeve
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On February 17, Red Hot released its latest benefit album, Dark Was the Night. Our very own Gabriel Kahane appears on it, playing a wacky two-minute neo-romantic piano cadenza on Sufjan Stevens’ contribution to the compilation, “You Are the Blood”. The line-up for the double CD is very impressive and we recommend you pick up a copy and help raise money and awareness for AIDS. Tracklist below.
Dark Was The Night
- Disc 1
1 Knotty Pine – Dirty Projectors + David Byrne
2 Cello Song (Nick Drake) – The Books featuring Jose Gonzalez
3 Train Song (Vashti Bunyan recorded, written by Alasdair Clayre) – Feist + Ben Gibbard
4 Brackett, WI – Bon Iver
5 Deep Blue Sea – Grizzly Bear
6 So Far Around the Bend – The National (arrangement by Nico Muhly)
7 Tightrope – Yeasayer
8 Feeling Good (popularized by Nina Simone) – My Brightest Diamond
9 Dark Was the Night (Blind Willie Johnson) – Kronos Quartet
10 I Was Young When I Left Home (Bob Dylan) – Antony + Bryce Dessner
11 Big Red Machine – Justin Vernon + Aaron Dessner
12 Sleepless – The Decemberists
13 Stolen Houses (Die) – Iron and Wine
14 Service Bell – Grizzly Bear + Feist
15 You Are The Blood – Sufjan Stevens
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Disc 2
1 Well-Alright – Spoon
2 Lenin – Arcade Fire
3 Mimizan – Beirut
4 El Caporal – My Morning Jacket
5 Inspiration Information (Shuggie Otis) – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
6 With A Girl Like You (The Troggs) – Dave Sitek
7 Blood Pt 2 (based on original song “You are the Blood” by the Castanets) – Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti)
8 Hey, Snow White (Destroyer) – The New Pornographers
9 Gentle Hour (Snapper) – Yo La Tengo
10 Another Saturday (traditional song) – Stuart Murdoch
11 Happiness – Riceboy Sleeps
12 Amazing Grace (traditional song) – Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues
13 The Giant Of Illinois (Handsome Family) – Andrew Bird
14 Lua – Conor Oberst + Gillian Welch
15 When the Road Runs Out – Blonde Redhead + Devastations
16 Love vs. Porn – Kevin Drew
News : Gabriel Kahane In The New Yorker
January 26th, 2009 by Wesley Verhoeve
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Influential critic Alex Ross of The New Yorker shared his view on Gabriel Kahane’s recent debuting of his new song cycle For The Union Dead in a great review. Photos by Louisa (top) and Stacy Schwartz (bottom, Minneapolis show).
The audience at the Philharmonic might be described as hard-core classical: mostly people fifty and older. Later that day, a different crowd showed up to see the singer, songwriter, and composer Gabriel Kahane perform at Le Poisson Rouge, the lively Greenwich Village club that mixes classical music with other genres. Kahane is twenty-seven, and his listeners seem roughly the same age. He is well on his way to developing an original creative personality; his music absorbs everything from nineteen-twenties neoclassicism to blue-grass and modern indie pop, with potent melodies bridging the disparate styles. In league with a six-piece ensemble called yMusic, Kahane presented his song cycle “For the Union Dead,” on poems of Robert Lowell. The texts challenged Kahane’s knack for teasing singable lines out of complex language; at times, the music seemed verbally overstuffed. But in a setting of “The Drinker” Kahane hit a vein of desolate beauty, dwelling obsessively on the phrase “foundering down.” His greatest asset is his sonorous, mesmerizing baritone; he brings to mind Sinatra in his wee-small-hours mood. Sinatra, of course, would have charged more than ten dollars.
News : Gabriel Kahane Plays Live Session on BreakThru Radio
January 13th, 2009 by Wesley Verhoeve
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Today our friends of over at BreakThruRadio have posted the live session Gabriel Kahane and Rob Moose played a little while ago. Go stream the full, and may we say phenomenal, 40 minute performance and interview here. Check out some pictures of the session taken by Maia MacDonald below.
News : Gabriel Kahane Debuts New Song Cycle!
January 7th, 2009 by Wesley Verhoeve
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We’re excited to announce that Gabriel Kahane will be premiering his Robert Lowell song cycle ‘For the Union Dead’, new song cycle on poems by Robert Lowell. It will happen this Thursday, January 8th, 7:30 pm sharp at (le) poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker st. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased here.
Thursday, January 8th
Gabriel Kahane & yMusic @ (le) poisson rouge, $10 (buy)
6:30 Doors
7:30 Gabriel Kahane & yMusic
8:30 Christina Courtin
News : Gabriel Kahane reviewed in Wall Street Journal!
October 19th, 2008 by Family Records
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In a story about two sons of classical musicians making compelling, genre-bending music that draws on but rethinks their classical upbringing, Greg Sandow of the Wall Street Journal talks about our very own Gabriel Kahane and the exciting music he’s making. In the words of Mr. Sandow: “Something really good is starting to happen here, and it’s well worth checking out.” Read the full review and feature here!
Other recent press:
Gabriel Kahane is an NPR programmer’s wet dream… From a sonic standpoint, Kahane’s restlessness and ingenuity match the precociousness of his words, the album often abandoning pop’s expected patterns of build and release with a less-predictable approach that comes closer to musical theater. – Pitchfork
There is nobody else within the pop-music sphere making music even remotely as sophisticate as what you’ll hear on Gabriel Kahane. This music for the ears, the intellect and the soul, and an auspicious debut LP from one of the most prodigious talents we’ve got. – Prefix Magazine
The instrumental parts, at times, might be purely classical compositions all by themselves, thoughtful, and above all wrought — carefully balanced, with contrasting melodies coexisting with each other, along with complex rhythms, and little strains of music that register like sharp, sure thoughts, or like imagines in a carefully crafted short story. – The Wall Street Journal
(Pick of the week) It’s no surprise that Gabriel Kahane has worked with Sufjan Stevens; they share a proclivity for intricate, beautiful pop fashioned from myriad instruments, with a nice line in softly delivered vocals. Kahane is a 27-year-old Brooklyn musician whose work flits between classical composition and artful pop. In September, his self-titled debut album of immaculate pop tunes was released. – The (London) Independent
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