The Brooklyn-based avant-garde songstress Gabrielle Herbst (GABI) follows her September debut single 'Koo Koo' with her shades of Kate Bush vocally complex and haunting style, on a further track from her forthcoming first album 'Sympathy', titled 'Fleece'.
Trained in classical music (piano and clarinet) from an early age, inspired by the likes of Berlioz, Satie, Steve Reich, and Bjork, Herbst mixes complex vocal techniques with loop pedal with her experience writing for chamber orchestra and other instrumentation, and uses her voice in operatic vocal-centric loops much like an instrument. Her nine-track album includes collaborations with percussionist Matthew O'Koren, viola player Rick Quantz, violinist Josh Henderson, and multi instrumentalist Aaron Roche, under the supervision of producers Daniel Lopatin (a.k.a. Oneohtrix Point Never) and Paul Corley.
Watch the video (created by Serena Forghieri) for 'Fleece' below. This lavishly orchestrated piece features falsetto vocal harmonies, transcendent drones, chamber music strings and gentle, but intense, piano.
'Sympathy' is released on April 7 via Software.
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