Former Montrealer and touring member of Men Without Hats (as Mike Gabriel), Michael Gabriel is bringing together some of the finest aspects of music as a whole new style that tends to defy categorization.
Beautiful, richly-layered and sweeping melodies, complex, danceable rhythms, and smooth, passionate voice characterize the music. Romantic atmospheres and more organic electronic textures blend easily in the songs and capture your attention and imagination.
As spoken...
"I believe music is all about energies, imagery, and transformation. It’s what it conjures up for you and what it does to your thinking, your mood, your life. I try to capture warm, rainy nights, cool winter mornings, happiness, introspection, tranquility, and personal moments in my compositions."
"I want my music to delight the ear and please your mind and body.
I want to take music somewhere new, with some rich textures, romantic atmospheres, and haunting melodies. I love some of the sounds happening now, but it’s time for something bold and beautiful that takes "cool" and spins a fabric of freshness and humanity around it. "
"These songs are a return to the roots of the cool, heady atmospheres of the early true Ambient and Electronica sounds, where you could walk away from a tune and hear it in your head -- or feel it in your soul -- for hours, or even days afterwards. To me, that’s always been the beauty of a good piece of music."
"The tunes here represent my re-entry into music, after an extended absence from the wonderful, life-renewing experience it was for me in the 80s and early 90s with Men Without Hats, Isinglass, and The 400. Here, I think I’ve managed to express the aforementioned energies and atmospheres that will hopefully convey some almost tangible sensibility, and, more certainly, the product of heart and psyche."
