Gabriel Garzón-Montano
Gabriel Garzón-Montano is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist with a progressive, often breezy, and slightly psychedelic sound. Firmly rooted in soul and funk with hip-hop, cumbia, nueva canción, and reggaeton among the many styles that have informed his approach, he has released Bishouné: Alma del Huila (2014), Jardín (2017), and Agüita (2020).
The Brooklyn native picked up music through his mother, a musician who was part of the Philip Glass Ensemble during the '90s. The first instrument he learned to play was the violin, followed by guitar and drums. As a young teenager, Garzón-Montano started writing songs. Years later, while attending State University of New York at Purchase, he was in a funk band called Mokaad. The same year that the band independently released an EP entitled Booty, Garzón-Montano recorded a set of solo material with longtime friend and collaborator Henry Hirsch. Deeply unsatisfied with the results, he kept the songs to himself for several months but eventually uploaded them to his SoundCloud page. The Styles Upon Styles label, taken by what they heard, bundled the songs for official multi-format release as Bishouné: Alma del Huila in February 2014.
Shortly thereafter, Garzón-Montano's career quickly accelerated. Mayer Hawthorne's chance record store encounter with the EP led to Hawthorne and the musician sharing the same management. Garzón-Montano toured Europe as the opening act for Lenny Kravitz, father of friend and former classmate Zoë Kravitz. The younger Kravitz played Garzón-Montano's music for Drake, whose "Jungle," produced by Noah Shebib, sampled the EP's "6 8." After several festival dates and additional stretches of touring -- including one in support of Hawthorne -- Garzón-Montano and Henry Hirsch completed Jardín. Previewed in late 2016 with the tracks "Sour Mango" and "The Game," the album was issued on Stones Throw in January 2017. He returned in mid-2020 with "Someone," his first single through a joint arrangement with Jagjaguwar and Stones Throw. The wide-scoped parent album, Agüita, followed that October.
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Discography
18 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Bishouné: Alma del Huila
Soul - Released by Gabriel Garzón-Montano on 11 Feb 2014
Qobuzissime16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Jardín
Electronic - Released by Stones Throw Records on 27 Jan 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Golden Wings
Soul - Released by Stones Throw Records on 27 Apr 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Agüita: Remixes
Alternative & Indie - Released by Jagjaguwar on 29 Mar 2022
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bishouné: Alma del Huila Instrumentals
Soul - Released by Gabriel Garzón-Montano on 24 Apr 2020
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Someone / Agüita / Bloom - A COLORS SHOW
Soul - Released by COLORSxSTUDIOS on 21 Feb 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Crawl (Karriem Riggins Remix)
Gabriel Garzón-Montano, Karriem Riggins
Electronic - Released by Stones Throw Records on 11 Apr 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Jardín (Instrumentals)
Soul - Released by Stones Throw Records on 27 Jan 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bombo Fabrika (Remix)
Gabriel Garzón-Montano, Little Simz
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Stones Throw Records on 3 Nov 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Game (Remix)
Gabriel Garzón-Montano, Junglepussy
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Stones Throw Records on 26 Jan 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Golden Wings (Chamber Arrangement)
Soul - Released by Stones Throw Records on 7 Sep 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Pour Maman (Archie Pelago Remix)
Electronic - Released by Gabriel Garzón-Montano on 3 Nov 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Sour Mango (Seven Davis Jr. Remix)
Electronic - Released by Stones Throw Records on 3 Jul 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Game (Clean Remix)
Gabriel Garzón-Montano, Junglepussy
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Stones Throw Records on 26 Jan 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Long Ears (Remix)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Stones Throw Records on 16 Apr 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Crawl (Remix)
Gabriel Garzón-Montano, Audra The Rapper
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Stones Throw Records on 6 Apr 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo