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DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nGabriel Kahane is not part of a scene. He writes string
  quartets and musicals and pop songs\, and his heart is fully in all of th
 ose endeavors. But what unites all of his musical efforts is the desire to
  communicate honestly and without pretense. On his rich and focused sophom
 ore LP\, Where are the Arms\, Gabriel has brought together an all-star ban
 d including Rob Moose (Bon Iver\, Antony and the Johnsons\, The National)\
 , Casey Foubert (Sufjan Stevens\, Richard Swift\, Pedro The Lion)\, and Ma
 tt Johnson (Jeff Buckley\, Rufus Wainwright)\, in support of eleven intric
 ate and literate\, yet clear and accessible songs. This is a record to pla
 y on repeat\, soaking up the details.\nBorn in Venice Beach\, California i
 n 1981 and raised on both coasts in a slo-mo game of residential ping-pong
 \, Gabriel&rsquo\;s relationship to geography is never far from the surfac
 e in his songwriting. He writes about place with a passion often reserved 
 for a lover\, the resulting songs offering a unique path toward emotional 
 catharsis. And at a time when irony dominates our cultural terrain\, Gabri
 el is unafraid to be emotionally direct. On Where are the Arms\, anthemic 
 pop choruses are followed by intricate brass cadenzas in odd time signatur
 es\, and folky refrains are interlaced with tightly wound flute filigrees&
 mdash\; yet it&rsquo\;s always in the service of the song.\nLaunched by hi
 s 2006 song cycle Craigslistlieder\, Kahane&rsquo\;s rapid ascent as a com
 poser of concert works continues to bloom in the 2011-2012 season\, with t
 he premiere of an orchestral song cycle slated for performance in March wi
 th Kahane as soloist alongside the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegi
 e&rsquo\;s Zankel Hall. Additional performances of the work will be heard 
 with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra\, as well as at the Savannah Music 
 Festival. Little Sleep&rsquo\;s Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight\, a c
 ello sonata-cum-song cycle written for Alisa Weilerstein\, will be heard i
 n a concert for Lincoln Center&rsquo\;s Chamber Music Society with the com
 poser as pianist and singer. A string quartet\, The Red Book\, written for
  the Kronos Quartet\, will premiere in the fall.\nThe coming season also b
 rings to life a full-length musical\, February House\, for which Kahane wr
 ote music and lyrics\, and which is to be seen in back-to-back productions
  at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven and New York&rsquo\;s Public Theat
 er\, which commissioned the work. Gabriel has also been commissioned by th
 e Signature Theater in Arlington\, VA\, as well as by the Williamstown The
 ater Festival\, which produced Caravan Man\, his alt-country (yet totally 
 reverent) musical about the Prophet Muhammad\, in 2007.\nEqually at home a
 s a performer as in the composing studio\, Gabriel was hailed by the Los A
 ngeles Times earlier this year for &ldquo\;an all around dazzling performa
 nce&rdquo\; in his debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall with the Los Angeles 
 Philharmonic (in the premiere of his song cycle Orinoco Sketches\, conduct
 ed by John Adams). Performance highlights of last season included concerts
  with Chris Thile\, Brad Mehldau\, Alisa Weilerstein\, and appearances at 
 the Vail\, Caramoor\, and Aspen summer festivals. This fall\, Kahane and h
 is band will head out on tour in support of Where are the Arms\, covering 
 as much of North America as they can without overdosing on Waffle House ha
 sh browns and Dutch Brothers sickly sweet iced coffee.\nA two-time MacDowe
 ll Colony fellow\, Kahane makes his home in the historic Ditmas Park distr
 ict of Brooklyn\, New York\, where he can often be found braising unctuous
  cuts of meat or stumbling through transcriptions of Mahler Symphonies on 
 his century-old piano.
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Kahane with Rob Moose (of Bon Iver) + Elizabeth Ziman (Eliz
 abeth & The Catapult)
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