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Sofa Session: Gabriels
Gabriels play a Sofa Session for Jo, including music from their second EP, Bloodline.
Gabriels play a Sofa Session for Jo, including music from their second EP, Bloodline.
Quickly finding fans in the likes of Elton John, Celeste, Paul Weller, Benji B, and Gilles Peterson, the band should soon find plenty more on a record that could soundtrack a David Lynch epic such is its drama and suspenseful, late-night orchestral ruminations. Capped by vocalist Jacob Lusk's voice, a weapon that swoops through the octaves breathlessly, Gabriels have that rare ability to make you re-evaluate music, and what it can do, in a heartbeat.
Whilst Lusk provides the wow factor with that ridiculous larynx, Gabriels are very much a close-knit trio. Producer, keyboardist (and full-time video director) Ryan Hope hails from Sunderland, but calls LA home. Fellow producer-composer and violinist Ari Balouzian, a man with endless musical projects on the go at any one time, gives Gabriels' songs a real 'feel' to them.
Sultry, soulful mood music certainly isn't the band's modus operandi, with debut track If Love & Hate In A Different Time having originally identified Gabriels as a loose-limbed, soul-stirring funk and gospel-flecked odyssey. It's a song that found their recent live audiences break out in dance, a joyous unifying experience.
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HONNE
Back On Top (feat. Griff)
- Let's Just Say The World Ended A Week From Now, What Would You Do?.
- Atlantic.
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Sam Fender
Seventeen Going Under
- Seventeen Going Under.
- Polydor.
- 1.
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Aztec Camera
Walk Out to Winter
- The Best Of Aztec Camera.
- Warner E.S.P..
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Jamie Cullum
I Believe In Father Christmas (Radio 2 Session, 8 December 2021)
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Oh Wonder
This Christmas
- This Christmas.
- Island.
- 1.
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Harry Belafonte
Mary's Boy Child
- Billboard Greatest Xmas Hits.
- Rhino.
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Arab Strap
The Turning Of Our Bones
- The Turning Of Our Bones.
- Rock Action Records.
- 1.
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Whitney Houston & The Georgia Mass Choir
Joy To The World
- The Preacher's Wife O.S.T..
- Arista.
- 15.
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Gabriels
Blame (Sofa Session, 22 December 2021)
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Gabriels
Innocence (Sofa Session, 22 December 2021)
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Gabriels
White Christmas (Sofa Session, 22 December 2021)
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The Waitresses
Christmas Wrapping
- NOW That's What I Call Christmas (Various Artists).
- Now.
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Electric Light Orchestra
Mr. Blue Sky
- Out of the Blue.
- Jet/United Artists/CBS.
- 4.
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Jo Harrop
O Holy Night (Sofa Session)
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Laura Mvula & Simon Neil
What Matters
- What Matters.
- An Atlantic Records UK / Flamingo Records Limited.
- 1.
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Tori Amos
Winter
Broadcast
- Wed 22 Dec 2021 19:30BBC Radio 2