Where Do I Begin - 2011 new tracks... all instruments and words and ideas are all mine.... 
I am a musician, artist, song writer, and ideas maker... If you want these please ask... via email or add me on facebook Gabbrielle 'JazzKeyz' Williams.... I do gospel rnb jazz rock and classical. 
Lesson from me.. sticking with one thing (one genre) makes you a one trick pony... Enable yourself to explore other possibilities and believe me it will only be the devil that can hate your music, because by encorporating what everyone likes in one piece of music bring everyone together.... And this is what my album is about exploring these ideas... I hope you enjoy it and please leave feedback :D


Gabbrielle Williams - Hypnotised

Based on an unfortunate man living in the dark alley-ways. Instrumentation used was percussion, violin and bass clarinet. Hope you enjoyed it.

Les Secrets Du Ruelles Sombres with Sib Files

In Nomine Patris. I wanted to truly understand the task I had ahead of me, in terms of grasping the stylistic and sonorous sounds of the Tallis Scholars. It became apparent after listening to the given track, that the sonorous quality was emerged through the buoyancy and spatial awareness of the Tallis Scholar’ voices and I still wanted to bestow that within my piece however add my own artistic ability. Furthermore, with the Tallis Scholars been a very gifted group of vocalists, I also wanted to exceed some boundaries to enthusiastically take them out of the comfort zone for effect but also to apply my neo-classicist approach to renaissance composers such as Taverner, Josquin, Byrd and of course Tallis. 

With this in mind, I delved further into the techniques of neo-classic composers and decided to look ironically at Tavener (b.1944). I remembered a couple of years back I studied a piece called ‘The Lamb’ which was riddled with bitonality, chromatic modality and harmonic dissonance and I really wanted to work with these ideas, more so to create the atmospheric, heavenly opening of my composition. 

Having a Christian background myself, it aided me towards the lyrics I used. I still wanted to keep the godly vision within this piece, therefore, In Nomine Patris, English for ‘In the name of the Father’ was inspired by the Roman Catholic’s passage of prayer ‘Kyrie Eleison’ (Lord have mercy upon us) & ‘Christe Eleison’ (Christ have mercy upon us). I also wanted to use the full phrase used when undertaking the sign of the cross –‘In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen both in Latin and English. Finally, I was inspired by the tension I had created with forgiveness and included one more phrase which was ‘Pater Noster, dirige.’ This translated in English to ‘Father God we need you’. It is apparent that I have not used many lyrics, but I wanted the music to deliver a clear message, clear tone and not to be cluttered with too many words which in effect I feel this has worked greatly as I did not only just use Latin but English also then gave me extra words to play with rather than alternating numerous excerpts. I wanted the sonority of the vocal lines I created, along with the lyrics, to be really piercing with the pre-existing result of the music have a one-way channel to God. 

I really hope you enjoy this piece as I enjoyed creating it. Any feedback, as always, is always welcome. Thank you for taking a look at my piece ‘In Nomine Patris’. 


In Nomine Patris

Undertones is a compilation of 3 movements and were composed for a string quartet. (1st violin, 2nd violin, viola & cello). The inspirations from these pieces were constructed from or based on the slavery of the blacks. Slavery has had, and subliminally still has, a very long history. 

Throughout many countries, slavery has been a serious issue; not just blacks but many races which have been subjected to ill treatment, harsh punishment & barely any daily necessities. Throughout our modern world today, it is still quite common to hear of women and young girls forced into prostitution, while both children and adults work in near slavery conditions in sweat shops producing goods for the western world. With presently a lot of slavery unheard of or omitted from the news, I felt it was only obligatory to name the collection of the three movements the name I did. Undertones defined means: ‘An underlying or implied tendency or meaning; an undercurrent’. It captivates the compositional ideas I had for each movement such as subliminal melodies, experimenting with the psychology of ground-basses and also experimenting with the rhythmic pulse of Morse code.  

The second movement is called Stalking Shadows. This piece was composed to indulge in the sadness of the events that had incurred over the existence of slavery. With this in mind, the melodic lines were systematically repeated through each string instrument which in effect supplied the piece with a bemoaned and lamented eclipse. A piece, throughout it, conveys its true emotions and formulates a personal tag with the piece.  

Stalking Shadow

The third and final movement is named Subliminal Messages. The piece incorporates the rhythmic pulse of Morse code (using the phrases Save Me and Help Me). This created quite a catchy and vibrant beat and melodic tune through creative input and consequently emulated the characteristic of reggae (bar1 (1) to bar 13(4)) and dub-step (bar 14(1) to bar 28 (4)) which worked very well in my favour, as the idea was to emulate originally the slavery of the blacks. The viola’s part was rather a mocking melody to stress the sardonic behaviour of the master. With the piece incorporating such a diverse and vibrant style in comparison to the preceding movements, I needed to end with 2 very imperative conclusions. The first being an ascension of hope – with time, effort and education imposed onto not only the youth but all generations & secondly an irresolute ending – both to the piece & to the inclusive end of abolishing slavery. 

Subliminal Message

This is a jazz interpretation of Blackbird by The Beatles - hope you enjoy :)

Blackbird

I hope you enjoy what you are listening to. Please leave comments. Here is a biography of my work. 

Hello my name is Gabbrielle Williams and I am an aspiring artist, musician and song writer. I really enjoy music and it has always been a part of my life. Going to bed, waking up, exercising, when I'm down and times when I would like to celebrate, music is always surrounding me or on my person. I am currently studying at Liverpool Hope university. I am very interested in creating my own music as well as covering artists and I always do my best to add my own flavour to it when covering artists. People I really admire as artists are Jill Scott, Mary J Blige, Melanie Fiona, James Brown, Teddy Pendergrass, Tinie Tempah, Kirk Franklin, D'angelo, Michael Jackson, Faith Evans, Beyonce, Darwin Hobbs, Bob Marley and many more. I really to explore a wide range of musical influences e.g rock,reggae,soul,rnb and even eastern music. It would be nice to find people such as myself who are so fanatical about music, so if you are browsing through my page and like what you see, leave a comment or even email me. I more than happy to come and sing with you as well or play for you. I am going to leave it here but as I said contact me, let me know how I can improve or what styles to venture into next. Being an artist includes you and the audience - so if the audience don't like it change but make sure you are happy with the changes - which is what I always try to do. Thanks for reading my biography. Take Care
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