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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.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 22 Dec 2021 19:30
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • HONNE

    Back On Top (feat. Griff)

    • Let's Just Say The World Ended A Week From Now, What Would You Do?.
    • Atlantic.

  • Sam Fender

    Seventeen Going Under

    • Seventeen Going Under.
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Aztec Camera

    Walk Out to Winter

    • The Best Of Aztec Camera.
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Jamie Cullum

    I Believe In Father Christmas (Radio 2 Session, 8 December 2021)

  • Oh Wonder

    This Christmas

    • This Christmas.
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Harry Belafonte

    Mary's Boy Child

    • Billboard Greatest Xmas Hits.
    • Rhino.

  • Arab Strap

    The Turning Of Our Bones

    • The Turning Of Our Bones.
    • Rock Action Records.
    • 1.

  • Whitney Houston & The Georgia Mass Choir

    Joy To The World

    • The Preacher's Wife O.S.T..
    • Arista.
    • 15.

  • Gabriels

    Blame (Sofa Session, 22 December 2021)

  • Gabriels

    Innocence (Sofa Session, 22 December 2021)

  • Gabriels

    White Christmas (Sofa Session, 22 December 2021)

  • The Waitresses

    Christmas Wrapping

    • NOW That's What I Call Christmas (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Mr. Blue Sky

    • Out of the Blue.
    • Jet/United Artists/CBS.
    • 4.

  • Jo Harrop

    O Holy Night (Sofa Session)

  • Laura Mvula & Simon Neil

    What Matters

    • What Matters.
    • An Atlantic Records UK / Flamingo Records Limited.
    • 1.

  • Tori Amos

    Winter

Broadcast

  • Wed 22 Dec 2021 19:30
    BBC Radio 2