BEAUTIFUL
VOICE OF A DARK ANGEL!
THE
BEAUTIFUL GABY KOSS!!!
By
Darkzen
Gaby Koss was born in Munich, Bavaria,
Germany, and always sang in school a lot! at age 10 he began playing the piano
with a teacher each week and visited the local weekly church choir. He studied
Music and Education at the LMU (Ludwig-Maximilian-University) in Munich,
Beforhand she took private lessons singing with the vocal masters like Dietrich
Schneider (who taught well known professional singers and famous tölzer
Knabenchor) and now for many years he is with his teacher and tenor Saverio
Suárez Ribaudo in Munich, who is very experienced and also works with a lot of
professional singers
Thank you very much for giving me the
opportunity to be heard this super album! And for the support of our friend
Gaby Koss! For this interview!
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We go to the interview!
Photos: Andreas Grzesiak
Hello! my friend! thank you very much!
How
are you?
HI thank you for the chance to give this
interview. I am doing fine. Loads of things to do , loads of projects and
wishes to fullfill.
It
is a pleasure to hear from you friend! You have a beautiful voice! How was your vocal training?
I have a vocal teacher since very long and
it is necessary to improve so I still have a vocal teacher. I changed them to
find out who is best for me. Now I have one what has a lot of soloists from
Operahouses, yes they are still having a vocal teacher and they are still having
singing lessons to improve and be corrected as with the classical technic you
can do so many wrong things. For me as I do a lot of other vocal styles and
technics I can get mixed up very easely so I need controll from outside as I
think I do it right but oneself is mostly not really able to have real controll
as you do not haer yourself as others do. This is normal because of your
physical constilation.
I
did read the story of your album 'Diskelion' how was the story behind of name
of álbum, can you tell us?
Actually I wanted to do a
Solo Album as I have many fans in the metal scene from Haggard and Equilibrium.
When a guitar player from England Tom Harris sent me his song I thought it was
great and I asked him if he could write more songs and if he wants to do a
whole album with me. He agreed and so he was composing and I put some harmony
vocals on it too plus one song I did the whole melody. I decided to ask some
great musicians I know to help me with drums – ex drummer of Equilibrium Manuel
di Camillo and also the former Cantus Lunaris Bass Player Sebastian Kister, for
flute you can hear on some tracks I asked Albert Dannenmann from Blackmores
Night and for Viola I asked Daniel from Nota profana who is also a member of
the wordl famous classical Simon Bolivar
Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. I also
thought of asking some of my singer friends to sing on the album but then I
thought of one with who I wanted to do a double female fronted metal band, I
asked her but it did not work out as she was very demanding and behind my back
she was telling not nice things so I decided tto quit working with her also in
the future and to stick on my first idea taking a couple of my friends. On
stage I asked Kerstin Bischof (Ex Xandria) to join me and if she does not have
time Ida Elena or Julie from Kosmik Vortex will jump in. :-)
Which
was the main idea? Which means the name of the Album?
At first we thought of Call my name and I
thought of Triskolian as I wanted to go on only as double female fronted metal
band. And Triskolian was meant to be a double female fronted project.
The
musicians invited to collaborate with you? How was the experience of working
with them?
It was great to have so many different
great voices on the cd. I was working with them allready at guests at concerts
or also I was asked to sing with them on
CD.
I knew, that you were going to sing with
another female Singer, What happened with her?
It was like I was saying above, she
decided to come to Germany, I gave her shelter for many weeks and payed
everything for her and later she lived first without having to pay anything at
my appartment and when I asked for rent she was angry at me and told to my
musicians very bad insulting things about me. So it was very fast that I
decided that I can not work with a person acting bad behind my back plus criticiszing me with
everything I do also she never was into a job like managin/markting/organizing
etc.
So I decided to break up any contact and
search for nice people to work with.
Tell us wich was the experience of singing
with great voices! as Kerstin Bischof (ex-Xandria) Soule of Diabulus in Musica,
Ida Elena of Cantus Lunaris and Bare Infinity, Cosmic Vortex deletoile Julie and
Hannah Wagner Saeldes Sanc?
I always sang and made music with great
voices as I love to sing duets. And also in Cantus Lunaris where we have many
voice we always have duet, terzetts or quartets of singing.
Before Cantus I sang many classical
concerts with collegues in Churches or halls or in private opera productions
and also with the countertenor Samuel Santana from Spain who is also member of
Cantus Lunaris.
With the ones on Cd as I said I allready
had concerts, or sessions or recordings. Some voices fit maybe better together
depending on the frequences the different voices have but it is also a matter
of taste. :-)
What
you're trying of to trasmit with this album, 'Diskelion'?
Actually it was my dream to do a Solo CD
but also I alsways wanted to have a double female fronted metal band.. and
never found one so I just fullfilled my dream and I hope this and Cantus
Lunaris will go on. With Cantus Lunaris we also will go metal but with more
singers even..
What
means the cover of your album?
The Cover was designed by Ryo Ishido a
great designer who is really a world leading artist in his creations. I
actually am not really into some metal designes like drawings as Nightwish or
Equilibrium have them, I tend to different styles. So I was thinking taking
actually a angel pic of mine but as a photographer did those pics he wanted to
have many hundreds of Euro for the rights, so I took my second intention to
give a profile pic of mine and let Ryo create a mask on it. He did a great job
for the booklet.
First I asked somebody else to do it but
she did not have time to finish so as Ryo asked me to sing on his track I asked
him to make my booklet ;-)
It
is a great album! good production, in your own words is a continuous or
atmospheric album?
The prodcution is really great, as it was
producted at the Helionstudios what is also producing the Equilibrium Albums.
And Rene from Equilibrium was even so kind to work on the sounds of the guitars
in the Diskelion production.
I know also, that you have other bands, is
difficult to have several musical styles or are similar in some of them band?
Similar is just that all of them have to
do with Metal but every metal band is different.
Nota profana is orchestral symphonic death
black metal
Diskelion is double female fronted
symphonic metal with Rock influence (alla Nightwish)
Dominia is gothic, melodic doom metal
Cantus Lunaris will be
Renaissacne-Celtic-Rock-Metal style
A
‘’Excellent album’’ that means for you? elements that could have, voice,
voices, musicians, covert art or production?
I am not sure if it is an excellent album,
it was discribed in reviews like that.
But as the musicians are really great, the
prodcution and the song composing (every song has a melody-hook what goes right into the ear and
stays)! and the booklet art I think it
is a very high quality product normally band can do after a couple cds as you
need a lot of know how and experiences
or composer, musicians and producer to make a real great album on which
almost every song is great. That is why sometimes albums can last years to
really make a good quality product out of it with composition, production and
so on..
Is
there some video clip of this great album 'Diskelion'?
Until now there is only one song on
youtube : Remember sorrow - it is the name of the album also. But until now it
is not a real video yet we hope when we get a label, what will be very hard as
normally labels nowadays do not take bands anymore what have not allreay a lot
of fans and have done gigs also when the product is great - they think of earning money right away.
Nowadays bands have to inviest years and thousands of Euros for a CD and for
concerts and tours before they get a chance at a good label.
Thank
you very much !!! my friend! the last words are yours to all our readers! And
Give
me your opinion on the review I did of your álbum, my friend!
Thank you so much and I wish all the
readers well and hope you will like and enjoy our album Diskeklion but also my
other projects! :-) Please do not hesitate to write to us on our homepage www.diskelion.com
or facebook how you like the song
Remember Sorrow or the Medley of the album on youtube you can hear so far.. :-) Hope to see you at
concerts next year !
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