Album Notes

This is my first recording project, and it was made as I was thinking about and then getting ready to really make the move to move out of NYC; to extract myself physically from the East Village and Da Bronx (represent!). I am partial to GARDEN RUIN, because it's just so lovely-strange; it was commissioned (to put it in its most royal terms!) by choreographers Ori Flomin and Antonio Ramos (costumes by wild man/inventor Sam Gassman)for a dance theater piece, Lost Before Found. That piece was a blast to perform! It premiered at PS 122, then we performed it at 100 Grand Street and at Joyce SoHo,NYC. HELLO MY BRAVE NEW DAY got radio play on Montreal's C-KUT and KFAI radio in Minneapolis-St. Paul. That song is inspired by my brother Chris when he was chopping wood in the field and we would sing weird call and response songs to each other to get the wood from tree to wheel barrow to fireplace. (wheel barrow - when is the last time you heard those words?!). THINKING ABOUT YOU was played at a dance workshop in Bremen Germany by my friend teacher/dancer/choreographer Mariko Tanabe. They loved it in North Germany! My friend Ori Flomin is also speaking on that recording. ARROW is great because you get to hear Jack McKeever read the poem too. RETURNING is very glidey and water swirling all around. That is a great one to just sink into and let it daydream things for you. AND! well its my first cd, FIRST OUT THE DOOR! www.janegabriels.com myspace.com/janegabriels