Gabriel the Marine
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Gabriel the Marine is a five-piece Indie Rock outfit from Long Island, New York. For the last year, since their formation, the band has been featured on KRock (92.3 FM), played the 2009 Bamboozle Festival with No Doubt, Taking Back Sunday, and others, sold out concerts in the tri-state area, have been featured in Spin Magazine, have gotten their music on I-Tunes, and recorded a new EP entitled "Your Friends and Loved Ones" with Mike Watts at VuDu Studios (As Tall As Lions, The Almost, Self Against City, As Cities Burn, etc, etc.) They have performed with the likes of Anberlin, Mae, Cash Cash, Meese, The Scenic, Wheatus, Patent Pending, [1], The Morning Of, and many more*. The band has also toured with The Forecast, Destry, and will be touring in August with Asteria, A Love Like Pi, and Theater Breaks Loose.
- Not including artists like Taking Back Sunday, [2], and the countless other national touring acts that they performed with at the Bamboozle Festival.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Origins
In the summer of 2007, Michael Desmond and Dylan Ebrahimian began writing songs together while Dylan was in The Farewell Effect. At this time, The Farewell Effect was going through bassists. Tom Angenbroich (of Stereo Skyline), the bassist at the time, left the band to pursue promotion. With no bassist, in addition to Mark Herburger's short break from the band, Dylan Ebrahimian brought in Desmond to fill in on guitar. Jon Kurmanchik of Hope Drive played as a live bassist. The Farewell Effect played its last show at The Landmark Theatre on Main Street in Port Washington with Permanent Me, Big City Lights, Destiny or Design, Van Atta High (New Jersey) and The Rivalry. The Line-up inlcluded the absense of Mark Herburger on guitar, coupled with the addition of Michael Desmond in his place. Jon Kurmanchik played as live bassist, and they had a guest appearance from Mark Herburger on vocals and Tom Angenbroich on screams during the outro of their last song entitled "Disappear". Dylan and Desmond then decided that they should take the songs that they wrote and incorporate them into a band with members of The Farewell Effect and begin anew as a band with a new name after the lineup had gotten settled.
[edit] Formation
The band soon transitioned into a project that Mike and Dylan had been working on for months at that point. The band spent weeks working on the lyrics and the concept behind Gabriel's story, and put up a song "The Invocation of Gabriel" on the myspace until they could release their true material. The band spent a few months writing and debuted their new material under the name "Gabriel the Marine" at Village Pub South in February.
[edit] 2008 and on
In April of 2008, Gabriel the Marine entered the studio with Nick Zinnanti to record a five song EP. The EP was finished and released at shows. The EP will be re-released on I-Tunes and other online distributors in the winter of 2009. On May 17th, two new tracks entitled "Maybe, Baby" and "The Gold Coast" appeared on their page and were free for download. After the tracks were mastered, all four tracks entitled "Maybe Baby", "The Gold Coast", "Twilight in the Sun" and "Lovely Bones" were posted on Myspace. The band had plans to get the cd's pressed and an eventual EP release was planned. Before the EP was released (eventually at Sullivan Hall on November 22nd), however, Craig and John left the band to pursue plans outside of serious music projects including plans to go away to college.
In early October, the band announced that Dominick D'Agostino (guitar) and Tommy Davis (drums) had filled the roles for Craig and John. With the new lineup, Gabriel the Marine has since released new merch through Five1SixDesign and have written five songs as well as about the same amount of classical songs. The combination of songs will try to make the concept album sound more like a soundtrack. Gabriel the Marine will be recording this EP with renowned producer/engineer Mike Watts at Vudu Studios. The EP will be called "Your Friends and Loved Ones", due to the fact that the band has been heavily supported by their family and friends and could not pursue anything musically without their constant and unbridled support. They will begin to tour in support of it after its release date in late Spring.
On April 18th, it was announced that Gabriel the Marine would play at the 2009 Bamboozle Festival on May 3rd. They played on the Aquarian/Break Stage at 11:00 AM. Spin Magazine called them "One of the 15 bands you Must Hear at the Bamboozle Fesitval".
In late May of 2009, Robbie Hassett was asked to replace Mark Herburger on bass, after a unanimous decision was made by the band that a change needed to be made. Gabriel is now getting ready to leave home and go on the road in the summer of 2009 to support their EP "Your Friends and Loved Ones".
[edit] Members
- Michael Desmond (Guitar, Vocals)
- Dylan Ebrahimian (Piano, Violin, Vocals)
- Robbie Hassett (Bass)
- Dominick D'Agostino (Guitar)
- Tommy Davis (Drums)
[edit] Former Members
- Craig Kleila (Guitar)
- John Leibold (Drums)
- Mark Herburger (Bass)
[edit] Discography
- Invocation of Gabriel (Digital Single, 2008)
- Gabriel the Marine Sampler (Self-Released, 2008)
- Gabriel the Marine EP (Self-Released, 2008)
- Your Friends and Loved Ones (EP, 2009)
[edit] Notes
- Their videos can be found here.
- Gabriel the Marine's single "Maybe Baby" was recently played by music scene radio host and photography great Mike Dubin on New York's own KROCK 92.3 and is on rotation for the station. Check out his website here [3]!
