★★★★★
Virtuosic pop music is always a tough sell. Frequently musicians with the skill to move beyond three-chords and a catchy hook find themselves in other arenas -- not uncommonly as a producer of other folks' records where a larger musical palate can infuse a bit more artistry into otherwise pale tracks. Gabriel Kahane might find the most comfortable company among such talented musician/producers -- Jon Brion and Tucker Martine among them; surely he has the chops...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2011-09-29
★★★★★
Performing at the intimate Tonic in New York City last month, local piano man Gabriel Kahane cracked about media hype, joking that the career of 20th-century composer Charles Ives, featured in the opening act, had been bolstered by a 9/10 rating attention from a certain make-or-break online publication...
- www.stylusmagazine.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Gabriel Kahane is a NPR programmer's wet dream. An undeniably gifted, exquisitely mannered young composer/songwriter, Kahane makes meticulously arranged art-pop with a heavy literary bent. It comes as absolutely no surprise that he's worked closely with Sufjan Stevens, as both men approach Americana with academic fondness and are keenly aware of the importance of geography to narrative...
- pitchfork.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Now is not the time for Gabriel Kahane. His heart belongs to fin-de-siècle Austrian art music and musical theater, not currently the hippest of musical hybrids. Kahane doesn't just play gigs and write records. He receives commissions, premieres works, accompanies renowned opera singers and violinists, and gets written up by the classical-music critic in the New Yorker. And yet as unrelated to the pop culture mill his music may seem, Kahane's linked in with the now, by practice and by proxy. His...
- www.prefixmag.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Gabriel Kahane is a NPR programmer's wet dream. An undeniably gifted, exquisitely mannered young composer/songwriter, Kahane makes meticulously arranged art-pop with a heavy literary bent. It comes as absolutely no surprise that he's worked closely with Sufjan Stevens, as both men approach Americana with academic fondness and are keenly aware of the importance of geography to narrative...
- www.pitchforkmedia.com
2009-02-27