With special appearance on backing vocals by the incredible Hannah Fury! Also featuring the stirring performance on upright bass by Mark Urness.
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Gwynplaine is one of my favorite characters in literature, one of Hugo’s more obscure works, Leni captured his soul in his film with the help of Veidt, perfectly!
Based on Victor Hugo’s novel “L’Homme Qui Rit”
Jo Gabriel’s song “Hold My Breath” appears on my album ISLAND through Kalinkaland Records world wide.
MonsterGirl (JoGabriel)
Jo Gabriel’s song “Masque of The Red Death” appears on my album The Last Drive In
MonsterGirl (JoGabriel)
I find myself often weepy about the good ole 70s, here’s a tribute to those dreamy hazy days filled with possibility and passion. I might even get myself some eagle feather eye lid paste ons like Todd and sit at the piano and play my heart out live soon!
with sadness in my heart over the great loss too soon, of Inger Stevens…
MonsterGirl( JoGabriel)
Originally recorded at The Luna County Conservatory In NY by Mike Fazio , now remixed by friend and fellow artist Mark Sheppard adding fretless bass and horns and dreamy drifts.
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Todd and his awesome eagle feathered brows!
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James Whale’s brilliant follow up film and what I consider even better than it’s predecessor Frankenstein,(1931) starring the great Karloff and Elsa Lanchester as The Bride.
And a deliciously campy and fabulous performance by Ernest Thesiger as Doctor Pretorius.
In Karl Freund’s The Mummy Boris plays Imhotep who comes after his immortal beloved played by the fiery sensual Zita Johann.
I have said this so many times, and I never get tired of making the point, I wish Boris Karloff had been my grandfather. I did this music tribute to just 2 of his memorable performances, although there hasn’t been any time that I haven’t been moved by his gentility that comes through even the most notorious characters he’s inhabited.
Here is my song Fable Honey off the album Fools and Orphans. I dedicate this video to Boris and hope that he would be pleased with my treatment of his performances.
MonsterGirl (jogabriel)
MonsterGirl (jogabriel)
MonsterGirl (jogabriel)
Starring the lovely Joan Fontaine as the empathetic Jane, Orson Welles as the brooding Edward Rochester, the great unsung character actor Henry Daniell, and 2 very young and wonderful actresses the uncredited immortal Elizabeth Taylor as Helen Burns and the pixie Margaret O’Brien as Adele. Also appearances by Agnes Moorehead and Hillary Brooke. And Peggy Ann Garner as young Jane.
MonsterGirl (jogabriel)
Jo Gabriel’s “Sway” appears on my album The Amber Sessions
I will be doing a major feature on the work of Val Lewton in the coming months, his masterworks in shadow are some of the most evocative films ever screened.
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