The Gabriel Construct

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The Gabriel Construct is the rock solo project of Gabriel Lucas Riccio, a vocalist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, environmentalist, feminist, and animal rights activist from Salisbury, MD. His debut album, ‘Interior City’, is a dark and atmospheric concept album featuring Travis Orbin (Darkest Hour, ex-Periphery, Of Legends) on drums, Thomas Murphy (ex-Periphery) on bass, David Stivelman (ex-Debbie Does Dallas) on guitar, Soren Larson on saxophone, and frequent collaborator Sophia Uddin on violin. The album unites players from rock, metal, classical, and jazz backgrounds to create a sound which incorporates influences from a wide variety of genres, including progressive rock, 20th century classical music, extreme metal, drum-n-bass, jazz, ’90s grunge and space rock, ’80s pop and more. The album’s densely layered vocal harmonies, distorted pianos, dissonant chords, and complex rhythms envelop the listener in a hallucinatory wall of sound. Gabriel graduated from Swarthmore College with a Bachelor of Arts in Music in 2011, where he won the Melvin B. Troy Prize in composition after studying under Gerald Levinson. Levinson was a student of George Crumb and Olivier Messiaen, both of whom became large influences on ‘Interior City’. Gabriel’s rock background combined with classical training provide him with a unique perspective which allows him to create a sound entirely his own. Just as the music of ‘Interior City’ attempts to overcome the limitations of genre boundaries, the a

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Interior City

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Best of 2013: Volume 1

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Live at the 3rd Annual Swarthmore College Student and Alumni Composers Concert, November 10, 2012

Progstravaganza 13

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Zero Tolerance #54

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Interior City (Rough Mixes)

Retreat Underground & Subway Dwellers

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Spinning Webs

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Spinning Webs (Rough Instrumentals)

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Interior City (WAV)

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Interior City (Old Rough Mixes)

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L'infreduptible - 2014

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