Almighty by Joanne Gabriel

Joanne Gabriel
Almighty
Musictrade release MT025
Released: August 4, 2010
24bit / 44.1 kHz lossless FLAC encoding
Includes hi-res cover artwork.

Compositions, instruments and production: Joanne Gabriel
Texts: Joanne Gabriel (kindly revised by Geronimodeleon)
Mastering and artwork: Doc
Desert photo: Ji-Elle (CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adrar-Reg_%283%29.JPG)
Joanne thanks: Doc, Geronimodeleon, KraftiM, Softspace, Mantra & Mojo

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Joanne Gabriel is a guitarist and experimental music maker from Herbeuval, France. This is how Joanne describes her musical inspiration: "I have visions of remote soundscapes. Contemplation and dreams are my muses, nightmares and inner unrest feed my inspiration. I like when noise and ethereal meet and melt. I enjoy dirty mixes and weird effects. Mistakes are part of my work, unexpected outcome is my purpose. I love wandering in the world of sound, going astray for the sake of sheer emotion."

'Almighty' is Joanne's debut album on Musictrade. It is a bold, experimental work arising from a cosmic, visionary dream she had a long time ago. The dream was about our Planet Earth, and the story of the dream is recaptured in the accompanying text with a dedicated chapter for each song.


Released under Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.

Track listing:

1 The Planet 7:01
2 The Machine 7:08
3 Air 8:38
4 Water 6:12
5 Life 4:59
6 Architecture 6:35
7. Hopeless Humankind 5:33
8. The Human Brain 15:01
9. The Natives 4:46
10. Departure 7:09

total duration 73:02


Enjoy,

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Foreword by Joanne Gabriel :

This story comes from a dream I had a very long time ago.
A dream that was like a movie which played from beginning to end;
a dream in which I was both a spectator, and the protagonist (as is typical of dreams...).
I remember waking up stunned from this dream, like I had really lived this experience.
I was amazed!
This dream came to me in a time in which a spiritual approach to life and important matters was food for my thoughts:
-How could I be a better person?
-What could I do to help things change around me?
These were typical questions for me.
Though the context of the dream was very symbolic,
I couldn't help but think about the response we would have if we were asked this question:
"What would you do if you were almighty?"
You know, similar to the three wishes story...
What would come to our mind first?
Health?
Money?
Power?
What do we deeply wish for?
I don't know what my answer to this question would have been (at that time) while conscious,
but this was the response given by my Unconscious...
A response which, made me thoughtful for years, and inspired this project...

Sometimes a soundscapist, sometimes a sound-architect, sometimes a sound-alchemist, sometimes just a sound-traveller.

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