Gabriel Garzón-Montano

Born a first-generation American in Brooklyn to French and Colombian parents, Gabriel Garzón-Montano weaves tapestries of sound that defies genre. His ability to execute a wide range of musical styles is his secret weapon. Gabriel's 2014 debut Bishouné: Alma Del Huila, the critically-lauded, self-produced EP that put him on the map, served as sample fodder for a handful of popular music's most iconic artists. His follow-up LP, 2017's Jardin, melded classical and folkloric instruments with rnb, hip-hop, and cumbia. Agüita, his first release for Jagjaguwar, is a sequence of impossibly diverse offerings ranging genres from trap anthems to string-drenched art pop ballads - a prismatic self-portrait, personal and universal all at once. "Genre has never been a consideration," he says. "The idea of genre uses fear of failure as a baseline. Genre puts the music in a box. This album is anti-genre. Anti-fear. Anti-box." Whether you're here for the medium, for the message, or for the man himself, you'll find the essence of Gabriel Garzón-Montano's genius in his rare uninterrupted and unbounded creative process.