Results for "Galen"

Galen

Galen is a singer, composer, and lyricist, was born in San Luis Obispo, California, and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Now back in Los Angeles making new music and new memories. Known for his pure tone and vocal acrobatics, Galen is both versatile and fresh in his approach to music. You can hear middle-eastern, jazz, gospel, and rock, among other influences in his style. Galen has sung on stage with jazz legends such as Kurt Elling, Bobby McFerrin, Chick Corea, Johnny Mathis, and Darmon Meader. He has also spent a great deal of time composing and arranging music for his band Compendium who's first album earned Galen three Downbeat Student Music Awards for best Pop/Rock Vocalist, Best Pop/Rock Group, and best Jazz arrangement for Galen's take on Stevie Wonder's "I Believe"

Galen

By Jonas Imhof

Label: Unit Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Hirtenlied; After All These Years; Det Obä; Steps; Galen; Northern Lights; Ti che ti tachet i tac; Ictus; Eleggua; Ombre in viaggio.

Ionisation: Galen

by Libero Farnè
July 2, 2014

Il panorama dell'attuale jazz svizzero, forse meno appartato di un tempo, è ricco di proposte avanzate e ben documentate su disco. In esso il giovane batterista Jonas Imhof s'inserisce perseguendo un avant jazz non particolarmente innovativo e sostanzioso, che ricerca tuttavia con grande coerenza classici equilibri, sonorità rotonde e un incedere ponderato. In questo disco Imhof ...