Music Reviews – Jo Gabriel

Hunting Down The Ceremony review from Delusions of Adequacy

Sister Cleophas — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:46:50 +0000

On July 21st, Jen – Stratosphere fanzine http://www.adequacy.net/author/stratosphere/ released her review of Joey’s double album

Hunting Down The Ceremony! Jen wrote a fabulous review, very extensive and flattering. It’s an in depth and colorful picture of what the album’s all about. The good sister is very proud once again, of Joey’s prolific nature.

Here below for all Joey’s fans, is the current review in all it’s glory!

http://www.adequacy.net/2010/07/jo-gabriel-hunting-down-the-ceremony/

Delusions of Adequacy interview with Jo Gabriel by Jen Stratosphere Fanzine

Sister Cleophas — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:23:03 +0000

http://www.adequacy.net/2010/03/interview-with-jo-gabriel/

Jo’s very personal interview with Jen Delaney of Stratosphere Fanzine and Delusions of Adequacy was released today! It’s probably the most telling expose/interview yet. The good sister hopes you spend a little time with our little joey, getting to know her a little better.

We thank Jen for all the time and effort she put into this interview.

Be good brothers and sisters

The Good Sister Cleophas

Ascension Magazine reviews Fools and Orphans issue #21 Summer 2009

Sister Cleophas — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:06:34 +0000

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=40397162&blogId=518309751

03. orchestramaxfieldparrish presents ÆRA: To The Last Man / Index of Dreaming (Faith Strange)

Sister Cleophas — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:03:27 +0000

http://www.textura.org/reviews/2009top10s.htm

One of Textura’s Top Albums of 2009 Bravo to fellow artist and friend Mike Fazio/orchestramaxfieldparrish

Local Sounds Magazine review of Fools and Orphans by Rick Tvedt

Sister Cleophas — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:43:53 +0000

http://magazine.localsounds.org/2009/11/24/jo-gabriel-fools-and-orphans/

Found reviews of Fools and Orphans Prikosnovenie & Elektrauma

Sister Cleophas — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:59:26 +0000

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.prikosnovenie.com/pages/M_SELEC_Distrib2009.doc&ei=Qu_9SpnnLI-3ngf649WQCw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CDcQ7gEwCTjWAw&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Jo%2BGabriel%2522%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN%26start%3D470

SELECTED DISTRIBUTIONS 2009 – SPECIAL MEDIATHÈQUE

(albums d’autres labels indépendants et/ou étrangers distribués par Prikosnovénie)

An angelic voice acute arises on a piano rather dramatic orchestrations of cello. Jo Gabriel is a songwriter in the tradition of Louisa John-Krol and Kate Bush

http://www.elektrauma.de/rezensionen.php4?KritikNummer=1898

in German

As best I can get close to from Babble Fish!
There it is, completely unpretentiously, sits before its piano. And then it catches to sing on – no, it does not sing, it dips into another world. Which Jo Gabriel, one of the many talentierten, but nearly surveyed Singer more /Songwriter of America of their piano at warm and entrückten tones takes out, borders already on a small miracle. And then is there still Jo Gabriel, which up-loads itself completely the music given and their voice with so much feeling and emotion, as it is heard only rarely. The fact that the comparison with Kate Bush, Joanna Newsom or also Laura Nyro is there also fast set cannot be excluded there. But Jo feels honoured with such female star to be compared. On „Fools and Orphans “anyhow, Gabriels of second outputs on Kalinkaland records, are these marvelous dream melodies, which remind magnificent album perhaps still far away of Chandeens „Echoes “. But one notices the American impact with Jo Gabriel simply clearly, which is not at all negatively meant. Already „OF Love and Ether “comes with unbelievably voluminösen Pianolinien, which complement each other perfectly with the voice of Jo. Sometimes it creates it, as with „Vacant Little Stare “, with its Kieksern and stimmlichen estimates a träumerische, nearly already entrückte atmosphere to create. Here simply everything is correct, from first to the last note. Jo Gabriel is whole with itself, and one hears. And that is simply only indescribably beautiful.

Fools and Orphans makes Organ Magazine’s top 50 albums of 2008!

Sister Cleophas — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:05:45 +0000

http://www.organart.com/albumsof2008.htm

Jo Gabriel @ Rolling Stone Magazine on line ~

Sister Cleophas — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:45:37 +0000

well it’s not like I’m on their radar but at least I’m under !!!!
Maybe someone there could finally do a little review

http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jogabriel

Found gem Local Bravo to Jo Gabriel by Rick Tvedt~review of Island 2006

Sister Cleophas — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:17:43 +0000

the good sister just stumbled onto this wonderful review in localssoundsmagazine by notable Madison music reviewer Rick Tvedt! And Joey thought she was invisible here in Madison.

Bless You Rick!

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:zXBAapEJoFoJ:magazine.localsounds.org/2006/07/10/jo-gabriel-island/+%22Jo+Gabriel%22&cd=20&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Musical Discoveries reviews Fools and Orphans!

Sister Cleophas — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:46:27 +0000

Russ Elliot Editor in Chief at Musical Discoveries has once again honored me with a fabulous review of Fools and Orphans. Thanks again old friend, you really touched my heart with this one!

http://www.musicaldiscoveries.com/digest/digest.php?a=viewr&id=882

Versacrum.com Italian magazine review of Fools and Orphans

Sister Cleophas — Mon, 11 May 2009 03:27:52 +0000

http://versacrum.hyperborea.com/musica/recensioni/rec200912/index_html?query_start=21

http://versacrum.hyperborea.com

An excerpt using english translation

Jo Gabriel: Fools and Orphans (CD – Kalinkaland, 2009). Jo Gabriel is original of New York. It has learned alone to play the pianoforte, sings and it writes songs. She is author of a POP d’ author with sends back more or less explicit to sure things of Kate Bush and old school 4AD, distinguishing itself for an exquisitely etereo taste that pervade the songs, probably thanks all’ shrewed use of the pianoforte and sporadic arches that they caress the pieces sweetly. The orchestrali agreements to the times have of touch cameristici, also always remaining attention to remain in penumbra in order to leave space the absolute protagonist. Of its Jo Gabriel much passion puts us and a discreet originality.

Kulturterrorismus review of Fools and Orphans! April ’09

Sister Cleophas — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:03:57 +0000

http://kulturterrorismus.de/

An emotional homage to the dear beast!

VÖ: 2009 label: Kalinkaland record

Category: Gothic, Pop, classical period

In the case of Kalinkaland the bent consumer shank may look forward record publications, which Harald Löwy (Chandeen) gives the light of the world, exclusively to extremely high-quality material, why Jo Gabriel gives the American multi-talent from the label repertoire, a successful conception with the CD “Fools and Orphans” after the Vorgängeroeuvre “Iceland” from 2005. Those new Yorkerin publishes actively clay/tone art, which offers a sensitive symbiosis from Gothic & Pop since 2003, which with classical element airs accentuation finds and itself fast embodied in the spirit.

Women are already amusing natures, otherwise they became their animals any longer do not love than their partners, to be why so some man wishes himself, a horse or a cat – no joke! The American Jo Gabriel seems to also belong these before described groups of women, otherwise “Fools and Orphans” would not be sentimental homage to its deceased cat Angeline (alias Victorine), which belonged to the race Abyssinian, which originally originates from Egypt. Also David Tibet (Current93) presented similar musical processings, where those likewise stood for consumer shank before the choice: “Kitsch – or no? ” might lie, with Jo Gabriel the answer also in the eye of the viewer, since it speaks the topic partially very daringly. To the better view a text quotation from the TRACK `How The Devils of case in Love’:

This is how the devil if
This is how he if into love
The devil if into love you lake
Oh Victorine, Oh Victorine,
You buried ME, alive

[…]

Wave I can’t breathe without you here
It’s NO good without you here
I don’t know why you’re emergency here…

Those, which favor moving like dragging along texts with emotions purely, get these from Jo Gabriel on “Fools and Orphans” kredenzt – very finely!

The Frontcover makes a fuss a photograph of the fig. “RK the Crossroads” (original title: Tienhaarassa) from the year 1896 of that Finnish exception painter Hugo Simberg (1873 – 1917), which in the Kunstmuseum Ateneum in Helsinki (Finland) hangs.

The one which can be heard the clay/tone art on the long player “Fools and Orphans”, might seem to European coined/shaped Gehörgängen first quite uncommonly, but after some hearing runs to more, into the spell to pull, since Jo Gabriel a extravagante Melange revealed, which arouses Gothic, Pop and classical period combined & the appearance, as if the Mr. matte Howden (seven) and Flavio Rivabella (the acquaintance post office manufacturer Trompeter) her fingers in the play would have had. This work brought the versatile musician in Jo Gabriel (piano, singing, key board, boat operator piano) with the following participants: Linda Mackley (Percussion), matt Turner (cello), Marks of Urness (bass) Stephanie Rearick (trumpet), Hannah Fury (singing) and Jeff Ladd (singing), whereby the synthesis of the arts lights up very variedly from the boxes & receives a special charm. Bent listener circles, which argue primarily with the fastidious releases as from matt Howden (seven), should test absolutely Jo Gabriel once, those in the special one by their emotional like gentle singing achievement and their varied compositions, which are based as far as possible on Pianopartituren, convinced.

“Fools and Orphans” represents a lining up of Anspieltipps, but the ear worm at all is the clay/tone document `Bulldozer’, which sensitive Pianospiel, which merges voice of Jo Gabriel and trumpet sounds of Stephanie the Rearick into a highlight – my absolute recommendation!

Result:

The dear beast (R.I.P.) does not stay unfortunately any longer among us and hunts in the eternal hunt reasons of mice in the abundance, but and Orphans” remains for us a melancholy dreamed publication of the top class with “Fools, which does not intend majorities for itself wins, but Musikfetischisten betört, which consumes fastidious clay/tone art, which swings between modern trend and classical period. Those, which estimate expression-strong woman voices, must test Jo Gabriel – my recommendation!

You find hearing examples and further information to Jo Gabriel under the following left:

http://www.myspace.com/jogabriel
http://www.jogabriel.com
http://www.myspace.com/kalinkaland
http://www.kalinkaland.de

Mick Mercer’s book “Music To Die For”~ is now available!

Sister Cleophas — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:08:14 +0000

This is the 5th book by notable music writer Mick Mercer who in this edition is covering Gothic artists all over the world. Jo is honored to have been included in this fabulous book.

Please visit the link below to purchase from Cherry Red Books Publishing.

http://www.myspace.com/musictodieforbymickmercer

Delusions of Adequacy review; Fools and Orphans by the fabulous Jen of Stratosphere Fanzine

Sister Cleophas — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:43:13 +0000

http://www.adequacy.net/review.php?reviewID=8899

SepiaChord’s wonderful Album Review of Fools and Orphans!

Sister Cleophas — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:30:55 +0000

http://www.sepiachord.com/jg.htm

Fools and Orphans~Ninthspace album review

Sister Cleophas — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:42:10 +0000

Jo Gabriel: Fools and Orphans

There are moments in Bulldozer, the opening song from Jo Gabriel’s new album, when Stephanie Rearick’s trumpet heralds the words ‘why should I love you’. These brief but beautiful events mark the most striking difference between this album and its more elaborate (if not immediate) predecessor Island. Fools and Orphansdraws away from traditional arrangements to let the songs breathe, and in doing so allows Jo to continue distinguishing herself from the current ’..and piano’ crowd (I like Emm Gryner’s term ‘contemporary nonsensery.’) Few artists have the ability or opportunity to be this daring (mostly down to record label pressures, no doubt) and this successful. Fools and Orphans shines from its own darkness.Kristin Hersh’s The Grotto was an album born out of loss and the resulting reflection on life and relationships. Fools and Orphans is different – its main theme is also loss, but barely offers sanctuary. The Grotto tears me apart and then rebuilds me; Fools and Orphans does the former then leaves a lingering sadness, although it’s more compelling as a result. The open arrangements, often rhythmically fluid and spontaneous are charmingly beautiful and ideal for such stories. It’s up to us to fill in the blanks, to empathise and to draw comparisons with our own lives.

Those who love Island might be surprised by the results – these songs make more sense if you were left breathless by The Amber Sessions. Jo is joined by a brilliant set of musicians who accompany her piano, synthesizer and concertina. There’s no major explosion of fireworks and no ego: Jo’s piano is here to set scenes, mark out rhythms and to dynamically sweep songs through their various emotional phases – you’ll probably end up loving every note she plays. Much of the greatness of the album is in Jo’s interplay with Matt Turner’s cello and Mark Urness’ upright bass, both of which better Andrew Bird’s string performances on The Grotto. Linda Mackley continues her percussion duties, but is barely noticeable such is the subtly of her performance – which is exactly what’s required – and Wendy Schneider occasionally adds guitar and something called ‘the little machine that could drone on.’

Melodies and rhythms often appear where they are least expected, developing their own counterpoints and shifting tempos but the experience and process of knowing each song is reward in itself. A line from Of Love and Ether, “to touch between sensations” perfectly summarises how this works. It’s just as important to delve between and beneath each note. That’s why the live birdsong on that song, and the happenstance rebar chimes on God Grant She Lye Still work their way so coherently into the mix. But it’s no coincidence – by the time these songs begin to appear, halfway out, we’re already trained how to listen to this album. The more you listen, the more you’ll learn the flow of each track.

Jo enthralls me with her unusual delivery of language, compressing or mutating phrases to track against the music, creating its own instrument: on The Habits of Shadows a moaning vocal interlude bridges the verses, later joined by Hannah Fury’s whispers for some shivery layering.Of Love and Ether, a song which epitomises the ephemeral themes of the album, echos this vocal styling. But it’s the climax of God Grant She Lye Still, when the title repeats and shatters, where the vocals have the most dramatic impact.

As is the case with albums that are as intense as this one, it’s difficult to pick out individual tracks for particular noteworthy attention. I should mention that How The Devil Falls In Lovebrings to mind the loneliness of The Cardigan’s 03.45: No Sleep, but adds guilt and frustration, and the final song Poison in the Well is an understated anthem, using strong piano chords where you might expect an avalanche of strings.

Fools and Orphans marks a new phase in Jo Gabriel’s musical career and although I’ve only discovered her music recently I feel privileged to witness her journey. For all its sorrow Fools and Orphans is a glorious creation.

Fools and Orphans has an artist’s limited release from 7 May 2008 through Ephemera and will also be released in Winter 2008 through Kalinkaland.

Wears The Trousers Magazine~Introducing Jo Gabriel:review/interview by Alan Pedder

Sister Cleophas — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:37:16 +0000

http://wearsthetrousers.com/2008/07/17/introducing-jo-gabriel/

Organ reviews,Album of the Week:Fools&Orphans~constructing the scaffolding to room c7h5no3s

Sister Cleophas — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:02:36 +0000

C7H5NO3S

At the risk of sounding too saccharin~upon reading Organ Magazine’s glorious review and having the honor bestowed upon me for having Fools and Orphans make Album of the Week~I really did CRY again!~
How did they know that I often feel like a person secretly singing in a dusty old theatre~!
It seems that I have some incredible support from across the pond these days~I’ll never truly be able to express my gratitude properly…

Organ Magazine and Resonance 104.4fm radio Sunday night’s pm London time~ is the sort of finger on the pulse of what we artists hope for~Organ mines for the essential qualities of authenticity and originality~ I’ve discovered a few incredible artists myself because of Organ’s relentless pursuit of the finer art of excavating our music culture!

If these wonderful reviews keep pouring forth, I fear that scaffolding might get to be quite tall~ and geez~ I have an awful fear of heights~

Thank you again Organ, Sean and the marvelous Biddy the Cat!

Cheers~Joey

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=90765&blogID=392444345

ORGAN ALBUM OF THE WEEK
JO GABRIEL – Fools And Orphans (Ephemera) – Her previous two mostly instrumental albums (reviewed a couple of weeks back) were delicious appetizers. No, that’s wrong, far far far more than just appetizers, that was very rude of us – beautiful instrumental rays of delicate glowing musical sunshine, wonderful things, we expected more of the same, we were looking forward to more of the same. We’ve been saving this up until the right moment for first listen and that moment that demanded we stop everything and partake in the anticipated delights. We really didn’t expect all those delicate shinny lyrical trinkets catching the warm sunlight. We didn’t expect a whole album of beautiful songs and words and a voice every bit as beautiful as the rightly anticipated instrumental warmth. Beautiful delicate songs, strong songs, quietly strong songs, twelve gorgeous piano led pieces of aural delight and honey poured in to a glass, songs and tunes alive with delicious detail. Delicate organic cello and concertina and Siamese cat-yowling and the habits of shadows. Songs that sit in the sun and uncoil with happy lazy cats and distant singing birds and oxygen and dancing light and a spell of delirium. Oh look, this is just too beautifully good to be here trying to write about it with mere words, I really don’t want to have to, this is magical, this is special. If you want lazy signposts and shortcuts think Kate Bush or Tori Amos or Colt or things on 4AD or labels like Projekt, mere signposts to point you in a general direction though, that’s all. Fools and Orphans is a beautiful album, as fine as the finest Abyssinian – go explore and lose yourself in it, go and treat yourself. She’s from New York, she’s like that person you find singing in secret in an old dusty theatre when she thinks no one is listening and this is why we do this Organ thing, this sets things of fire and makes me feel… this is a wonderful album – http://www.myspace.com/jogabriel or http://www.jogabriel.com

fa.music.ecto~Fools and Orphans by Craig Gidney

Sister Cleophas — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:40:42 +0000

http://groups.google.com/group/fa.music.ecto/browse_thread/thread/db1d86b34a7ff739

Wears The Trousers most read 2008 Voices on the Verge~Jo Gabriel

Sister Cleophas — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:03:44 +0000

http://www.zimbio.com/music/articles/1388/long+2008+most+read+features

So long, the most read features of 2008!

The good sister is very proud of her little joey. She made the wonderful Wears The Trousers most read features of 2008! Thank you Alan Pedder and Wears The Trousers Magazine.

Heathen Harvest reviews The Amber Sessions!

Sister Cleophas — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:35:42 +0000

Once again, Heathen Harvest has given me the honor of writing about my little pagan serenade dressed up in lo-fi attire . You can read what they say below ~

Blessed Be~JG

http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=2008101505074656

HigherPlain Music reviews Fools and Orphans!

Sister Cleophas — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:25:09 +0000

http://highermusic.wordpress.com/

Heathen Harvest Reviews “The Last Drive In”

Sister Cleophas — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:42:56 +0000

I just discovered Heathen Harvest’s great review of The Last Drive In. What pleased me most was the fact that they not only recognized my love of horror film ( in particular classical horror ) but they were able to invoke my work in the same breath as Jorg Buttgereit’s Nekromantik and Joe D’Amato disemboweling someone in a Victorian castle

These specific examples might not have been the films that I had visualized while manifesting this work,but all the same, it’s a rare tribute when people can be as creative as to envision “Aren’t You His Mother Rosemary” underscoring such provocative film making! The contrast of this particularly gentle haunting melody aligned with graphic disturbing imagery is actually something that I’ve often thought would make for an exquisite interpretive counterpoint blending of the two mediums, these two contrasting themes. I’ve seen this technique used for example in Narciso Ibanez Serrador’s 1969 Gothic masterpiece The House That Screamed. John Moulder Brown’s slow motion attack on an innocent maiden set in dark hazy, muted tones as a beautifully poignant melody supports the violence of the scene. It serves as a very dramatic and arousing agent.

Bravo Heathen Harvest, you honor me!

http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=20080811063830375

Jo Gabriel aka Monster Girl read my blog here:http://monstergirl.wordpress.com/

Wonderful Wooden Reasons ~ Featured Reviews Fools & Orphans, The Amber Sessions and The Last Drive In

Sister Cleophas — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:33:15 +0000

http://wonderfulwoodenreasons.homestead.com/reviewsGtoI.html

Gothronic reviews/featured artist Jo Gabriel & Fools and Orphans

Sister Cleophas — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:57:39 +0000

http://www.gothtronic.com/?page=23&reviews=5092

The Last Drive In-review @ Morbid Outlook by Steven Ghillany

Sister Cleophas — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:28:24 +0000

In Rotation, July 2008 by Steven Ghillany

http://www.morbidoutlook.com/music/inrotation/2008_07_inrotation.html

Gothtronic review The Amber Sessions~

Sister Cleophas — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:39:11 +0000

http://www.gothtronic.com/?page=23&reviews=5082

Collected Sounds Review Fools and Orphans!

Sister Cleophas — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:51:51 +0000

feed://feeds.feedburner.com/collectedsounds/rWgm

Craig Gidney Reviews Fools and Orphans~The New Gay!

Sister Cleophas — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:12:17 +0000

Read the wonderful Craig Gidney writer/music reviewer’s amazing review of Fools and Orphans at The New Gay below!

http://www.thenewgay.net/2008/06/jo-gabriel-fools-and-orphans.html

VITAL WEEKLY number 572 week 16~Jo Gabriel’s Siren Lotus

Sister Cleophas — Sun, 18 May 2008 16:51:32 +0000

“The various interpretations by band members and assorted guests like Tupac Shakur mixer Lea Reis and Jo Gabriel are interesting enough to warrant repeated listening”

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VITAL WEEKLY
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number 572
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week 16
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17 PYGMIES – 13 BLACKBIRDS (2CD by Trakwerx)

http://www.vitalweekly.net/572.html