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A night of acoustic love songs--some sweet, some sad, some silly--in honor of Valentine's Day. Go on, slow dance with your honey or even by yourself; we won't tell!
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Gabriel Harley Biography
In 2021, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Harley will release his fifth full-length album, Beat of a Broken Heart, a collection of personal, acoustic-guitar-driven songs inspired by love, friendship, and life in the wake of his own open-heart surgery in 2013 and the obstacles and complications that lingered for months and even years after.
Recorded at Gabriel’s own Perfect Mix Studios, Beat of a Broken Heart’s sound is deeply rooted in the music he grew up on--namely singer-songwriters of the 1970s like Cat Stevens, Jim Croce, and James Taylor. It’s a sound that’s more than just an aesthetic choice. “My parents both played guitar, sang, and wrote songs,” he said. “Some of my earliest memories are the two of them sitting in our living room with its blue shag carpet, guitars, notepads, and half-used cassette tapes scattered across on the coffee table.” It’s that homey, DIY vibe that Gabriel tried to recapture for this album.
“Although we did use modern recording gear,” Gabriel says, “I’ve tried very hard to make ‘Beat’ sound and feel like a record that could have just as easily been tracked on analog tape in 1975.”
During the recording sessions, everything that could be done live was done live. “The focus was on performance throughout,” Gabriel says. “Go back and listen to a record like Cat Stevens’ Tea for the Tillerman. Those songs aren’t beat-mapped, auto-tuned, and volume-maxxed like a lot of today’s pop songs. They’re performances. They have dynamics, musicianship, and an organic energy that makes them personal, intimate, and human. There’s a reason we’re still drawn to records like that forty-odd years after they came out.”
Here’s hoping audiences will still be listening to Beat of a Broken Heart in 2059...
Read MoreRecorded at Gabriel’s own Perfect Mix Studios, Beat of a Broken Heart’s sound is deeply rooted in the music he grew up on--namely singer-songwriters of the 1970s like Cat Stevens, Jim Croce, and James Taylor. It’s a sound that’s more than just an aesthetic choice. “My parents both played guitar, sang, and wrote songs,” he said. “Some of my earliest memories are the two of them sitting in our living room with its blue shag carpet, guitars, notepads, and half-used cassette tapes scattered across on the coffee table.” It’s that homey, DIY vibe that Gabriel tried to recapture for this album.
“Although we did use modern recording gear,” Gabriel says, “I’ve tried very hard to make ‘Beat’ sound and feel like a record that could have just as easily been tracked on analog tape in 1975.”
During the recording sessions, everything that could be done live was done live. “The focus was on performance throughout,” Gabriel says. “Go back and listen to a record like Cat Stevens’ Tea for the Tillerman. Those songs aren’t beat-mapped, auto-tuned, and volume-maxxed like a lot of today’s pop songs. They’re performances. They have dynamics, musicianship, and an organic energy that makes them personal, intimate, and human. There’s a reason we’re still drawn to records like that forty-odd years after they came out.”
Here’s hoping audiences will still be listening to Beat of a Broken Heart in 2059...
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