My work as producer.
Music projects and references.
Music projects and references.
PRODUCER
Are you interested in working with me?
As a musician?
A writer?
Video artist, graphic designer?
Any artistic or technically creative faculty?
YOU ARE WELCOME! GET IN TOUCH! DON'T BE SHY! DON'T WAIT!
As a musician?
A writer?
Video artist, graphic designer?
Any artistic or technically creative faculty?
YOU ARE WELCOME! GET IN TOUCH! DON'T BE SHY! DON'T WAIT!
PARTNERS
All material is copyright-secured. Some are published. However, all publishing interests are welcome, from making my songs better in your band's interpretation or for Publishing Company representation.
PUBLISHING
My name is Paul Gabor. (In Hungary I'm also known as Kaponya. The word means a drinking cup fashioned out of a secret part of the skull). I'm a rock musician and producer in New York City and, ocassionally, in my hometown Pécs, sometimes at Budapest. Lacking a better term my genre is perhaps closest to Art Rock and No Wave - as my numerous live appearances in the legendary New York clubs of yore, Max's Kansas City and CBGB attest to it. Somewhat like David Bowie, I never really repeat my artistic self. Presently my most important projects are: the Art Rock block (the biggest), The Poems of Ady (the most challenging), the older Science Fiction, the brand new Blend (called by an A&R director at Universal Music "the Pink Floyd of 2000's", and the Retro block (the revival of my early works with my band "The Funny Fools" in the Fabulous Sixties.)
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Bartók and I.
So. "Where did you get this 'Bartók' thing?! Aren't you a bit snobish, not to mention self-aggrandizing?!"
Yes. I am. And more...
Bartok, the genius, to whom I can only hold a candle, and me, little old beatnik-hippie-zombie, have some valid paralells. We both were born in that enchanted land called Hungary. We've both had sizable success early in our music carrier - however far apart - and later, under pressures our country is so infamous of, we both emmigrated. To the same place. New York. Whereas we both have struggled, yet produced works of certain value.
I sense his presence here.
I'm walking the same streets. I'm riding the same subways. I'm sharing with his presence the bittersweet drink concocted of loneliness, the call of creation, pain of those whose home is nowhere. A drink? A Manhattan?..
He was not happy here. Nor am I.
Yes, I've had my share of fun, of love, the grandeur, the pursuit of dreams, even success on some level.
But this is not Home. Nor was it His.
Manhattan, New York, America: still I salute you.
Because you're Free.
So. "Where did you get this 'Bartók' thing?! Aren't you a bit snobish, not to mention self-aggrandizing?!"
Yes. I am. And more...
Bartok, the genius, to whom I can only hold a candle, and me, little old beatnik-hippie-zombie, have some valid paralells. We both were born in that enchanted land called Hungary. We've both had sizable success early in our music carrier - however far apart - and later, under pressures our country is so infamous of, we both emmigrated. To the same place. New York. Whereas we both have struggled, yet produced works of certain value.
I sense his presence here.
I'm walking the same streets. I'm riding the same subways. I'm sharing with his presence the bittersweet drink concocted of loneliness, the call of creation, pain of those whose home is nowhere. A drink? A Manhattan?..
He was not happy here. Nor am I.
Yes, I've had my share of fun, of love, the grandeur, the pursuit of dreams, even success on some level.
But this is not Home. Nor was it His.
Manhattan, New York, America: still I salute you.
Because you're Free.
Universal Music
producer
producer
Pepita - Hungaroton
producer
producer
Virgin Records, UK
associate producer
associate producer
National Theater of Hungary, Pecs
musical staging
musical staging
The Jazz Emporium, New York
director of operations
director of operations
Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten, Munich, Germany
Ambient Musical Performances
Ambient Musical Performances
MTV - Magyar Televizio
Radio Fordan, FM 102.3, Pecs
program producer
program producer
DUNA Television
Global Network Broadcast Station, Hungary
film music
Global Network Broadcast Station, Hungary
film music
Gabe Garbow Concert Productions, New York
CEO
CEO
CBGB
alumni
alumni
References
The picture below comes from the grand opening of the small but spiffy and international airport of my home town, Pécs. The city, with its population of less than 200 000, is nothing major but proud to the extent of snobism; but then, it was the Cultural Capital of Europe in 2010. This is where I grew up in a music scene I had helped create and what was, in those old and happy days of beat, (and even under socialist rule), dubbed "Hungarian Liverpool".
Music: "Lightbug" - instrumental intro from "Eclipse" LP. Full vocal version is on Playlist 2
