All songs written, performed and arranged by Jo Gabriel
Piano, vocals, and keyboard samples by Jo Gabriel
Linda Mackley: drums/percussion
Matt Turner: Cello, Dream Hangover
Wendy Schneider: Electric guitar, Amnesty
Jeff Ladd: Backing vocals, Heavy & Testify
John Leitch: Guitars: Hunting Down The Ceremony, Emily Laughed
Andy Alonso: Fretless Bass, Hunting Down The Ceremony, Emily Laughed
Marty Robinson: Flugel Horn, Angels In Concrete
Tony Buzzeo: Additional guitars
Queer, Amnesty, Dream Hangover, Longer, Angel’s In Concrete, and Queer Reprise recorded and mixed at Coney Island Studios in Madison, Wisconsin by Wendy Schneider.
Jo’s background vocals for Once and Resurrection recorded in Wendy Schneider’s Kitchen in 2009.
All songs from Heavy Gray Line (unreleased album 1996) recorded by Mark Mandlebaum and archived from rough cassette mixes by Jo Gabriel and Wendy Schneider. Special note. All vocals were scratch versions. Finished vocals not recorded because the project ended midway through, and sadly the band broke up.
Queer (1993/2009)
Objects In The Mirror (1996/2009)
Amnesty (2004/2009) No Camouflage, Coney Island Records
Hunting Down The Ceremony (1996) Heavy Gray Line unreleased album, archived from rough cassette mixes from The Jo Gabriel Band. Engineered by Mark Mandelbaum.
Heavy (1993/2008) Hidden track, Fools And Orphans 2008
If Not (2003/2007) From Steve Balderson’s film Watch Out
Dream Hangover (2008)
Venus In Chains (1996) Heavy Gray Line unreleased album, archived from rough cassette mixes from The Jo Gabriel Band. Engineered by Mark Mandelbaum.
Longer (2007) From the documentary film CUT: Teens and Self Injury by Wendy Schneider featuring Shirley Manson and Tiffany Arbuckle Lee
Emily Laughed (1996) Heavy Gray Line unreleased album, archived from rough cassette mixes from The Jo Gabriel Band. Engineered by Mark Mandelbaum.
Resurrection (1992) Recorded in Jo’s apartment (across from the shady paint factory in Glen Cove, Long Island) on a lousy keyboard that I eventually traded in for my Kurzweil, drinking coffee at 2am using my temperamental little panasonic tape deck that didn’t always record.
Once (1992) Recorded Jo’s apartment, again using her tape deck but this time on her beloved acoustic upright piano Kawaii named Kwi in the afternoon, still across that lousy yet wonderful tacky paint factory in Glen Cove Long Island.
Angels In Concrete (2009) Written for, but sadly not used in a good classic shower scene in, Steve Balderson’s Film Stuck starring Karen Black. Steve wanted to use it, but the music director didn’t include it in the final film score.
Testify (1992/2008)
Queer Reprise (2009)
Yorga’s Hunting Again (2009) My little tabby guy George’s given gypsy name is Yorga, a persona he adopts while hunting imaginary prey in the middle of the night or late afternoons.