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Gabriel Kahane + Holcombe Waller
ABOUT GABRIEL KAHANE:
"[T]here is nobody else within the pop-music sphere making music even remotely as sophisticated as what youll hear on Gabriel Kahane. This is music for the ears, the intellect and the soul, and an auspicious debut LP from one of the most prodigious talents weve got." -- Prefix Magazine
"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
[Kahane] 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... [I]n 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."
-Alex Ross, The New Yorker
Singer, pianist, and composer Gabriel Kahane has formed musical alliances across diverse musical spheres, attracting the attention of fans and critics alike. His acclaimed debut album was released in the Fall of 2008 on Family Records, featuring guest appearances by Chris Thile, Sam Amidon, and Sufjan Stevens. Equally at home in the worlds of indie rock and classical music, 2009 witnessed the premiere of his song cycle For the Union Dead on poems by Robert Lowell. A work for solo piano, Django: Tiny Variations on a Big Dog, receives its premiere at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in April on a recital by Kahane's father, the pianist Jeffrey Kahane. Gabriel has appeared in recital with Grammy-winning bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff throughout Europe, and recently appeared with Rufus Wainwright on Elvis Costello's: Spectacle on the Sundance Channel. Composer of the cult found-text song cycle Craigslistlieder, Kahane is also at work on a musical, February House, commissioned by the Public Theater, where he is the recipient of the first Musical Theater Initiative Fellowship.
ABOUT HOLCOMBE WALLER:
"Holcombe's got the crazy-beautiful, four-octave voice of an androgynous seraph, but he's really a coffee-house troubadour from San Francisco and a classically trained pianist, a jazz saxophonist, and a visual artist." - SPIN MAGAZINE
"Holcombe Waller will be among the nominees for a MacArthur Fellowship pretty soon. What else can you say about someone who's obviously and trust us, we wouldn't use this dreaded word unless we had to a genius?" - SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY
Holcombe Waller is a singer-songwriter and performance artist with three critically acclaimed albums. He tours music venues nationally both solo and with his ensemble, The Healers. Waller studied Art at Yale University, specializing in Video Installation, and he spent his twenties honing his folk songwriting skills in the coffee houses of San Francisco. The past several years have found him creating and studying interdisciplinary performance that integrates music, movement, film and theatrical staging, and touring these works in theatrical and cabaret spaces across the United States. His most recent music theater performance, "Into the Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest," was supported by the prestigious MAP Fund grant and received much critical acclaim. Highlights of the 2008-09 tour for this work included the New York Public Theater (Under the Radar Festival), Seattles On the Boards, Vancouver PuSh Festival, and San Franciscos Dance Mission Theater.
Waller is an avid fan of dance and is currently collaborating with choreographer Zoe Scofield of Seattle and with the Joe Goode Performance Group of San Francisco. His recent collaboration with Joe Goode, entitled "Small Experiments in Song and Dance," was a surprise hit, selling out it's run at the Brava Theater in San Francisco in January of 2009. Holcombe is currently collaboratively writing an original musical with Mr. Goode titled "40 Sanchez" which will be work-shopped in the Fall of 2010 at UC Berkeley. He is also finishing a live album compendium of the songs from Into the Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest, and writing and scoring an original silent film and live musical performance titled "Surfacing." Find Holcombe on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, YouTube, or at holcombewaller.com.
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1100 Soquel Ave
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
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