RECORD OF THE YEAR – "You" - Single from Radio Ocean

ALBUM OF THE YEAR – RADIO OCEAN  by Unpinnable Butterflies

SONG OF THE YEAR – "YOU " - by Gabriel Judet-Weinshel

BEST ARRANGEMENT, INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCALS – "SANTA MARIA" arr. Scott Healy

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR – SCOTT HEALY

Gabriel’s second collaboration with producer Scott Healy, “Radio Ocean,” was released on sonaBLAST! in the summer of 2021. It’s a sprawling and raucous affair, over a decade in the making. The record expands the sound of Gabriel’s sometimes intimate first record into a wider, free-wheeling and eclectic stew, channeling everything from country, to west African guitar riffs, to classic rock.

Healy and Gabriel have outdone themselves in assembling a who’s-who of A-list talent once again. The 13-tune album features a returning Shawn Pelton and Curt Bisquera (Mick Jagger, Tom Petty) on drums, the totemic Lee Sklar (James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Carole King) on bass, Jason Orme (Alanis Morissette) on guitar, a full horn session comprised of Conan O’Brien’s Basic Cable Band veterans; as well as featured guest appearances by Americana darlings Birds of Chicago (JT Nero and Allison Russell), the saxophone prodigy Grace Kelly (Jon Batiste, Lee Konitz), songstress Jessica Childress (Aloe Blacc, Portugal the Man), indie maverick Kate Tucker, and chanteuse Perla Batalla (Leonard Cohen). As perhaps a sly nod to his filmmaking twin identity, Gabriel’s colleague, the esteemed rock photographer and director Danny Clinch, plays harmonica.

Artist name:
UNPINNABLE BUTTERFLIES
Record title:
RADIO OCEAN
Produced by:
SCOTT HEALY
all tunes written by:
GABRIEL JUDET-WEINSHEL
Songs published by UNPINNABLE BUTTERFLIES (BMI) / BLUE DOG MUSIC (BMI)
Record label:
sonaBLAST! Records

1. YOU
Gabriel Judet-Weinshel > voice, piano, acoustic guitars / Shawn Pelton > drums / Chris Tarry > fretless bass / Mark Luvman Pender > trumpet /
Jerry Vivino > tenor sax / Roger Rosenberg > baritone sax / Richie ‘la bamba’ Rosenberg > trombone / Michael Flannery > acoustic guitar, percussion /
horn arrangement by Scott Healy

2. EVERYBODY
Gabriel Judet-Weinshel > voice, piano, electric guitar / Scott Healy > Hammond B3 organ / Curt Bisquera > drums / Lee Sklar > electric bass /
Kevin Dukes > electric guitars / Michael Flannery > mellotron, voice

3. SANTA MARIA
Gabriel Judet-Weinshel > voice, piano /
‘Birds of Chicago’: Allison Russell > voice / JT Nero > voice /
Scott Healy > Hammond B3 organ / Curt Bisquera > drums /
Lee Sklar > electric bass / Mark Luvman Pender > trumpet /
Jerry Vivino > baritone sax /
Roger Rosenberg > bass sax /
Richie ‘la bamba’ Rosenberg > trombone /
Michael Flannery > percussion /
horn arrangement by Scott Healy

4. REVOLUTIONARY AT THE VESTIBULE
Gabriel Judet-Weinshel > voice, wurlitzer, electric guitars,
synths and programming /
Perla Batalla > voice / Scott Healy > Hammond B3 organ, accordion / Shawn Pelton > drums / Lee Sklar > electric bass / Maria Ahn > cello / Jeffrey Young > violin /
string arrangement by Gabriel Judet-Weinshel

5. BURDEN DOWN
Gabriel Judet-Weinshel > voice, nylon string
and electric guitar, synths and programming /
Grace Kelly > voice /
Scott Healy > accordion / Shawn Pelton > drums and percussion / Chris Tarry > fretless bass /
Michael Flannery > electric guitar

6. SELL ME THE MORNING
with quoted fragments from David Foster Wallace's
'Infinite Jest' and inspired by D.T. Max's 3.1.09 article
in the New Yorker, 'The Unfinished'
Gabriel Judet-Weinshel > voice, wurlitzer, piano, clarinet, electric guitarS, synths / Jessica Childress > voice /
Scott Healy > Hammond B3 organ /
Curt Bisquera > drums / Neil Stubenhaus > electric bass / Jason Orme > electric guitar, Marxophone / Maria Ahn > cello

7. ALL THAT I KNOW
Gabriel Judet-Weinshel > voice, piano / Perla Batalla > voice / Scott Healy > Hammond B3 organ, accordion / Shawn Pelton > drums / Lee Sklar > electric bass /
Glenn Alexander > electric guitar / Maria Ahn > cello / Jeffrey Young > violin /
string arrangement by Gabriel Judet-Weinshel

8. SWEET LORETTA
Gabriel Judet-Weinshel > voice, acoustic guitar / Kate Tucker > voice / Scott Healy > Hammond B3 organ, piano / Shawn Pelton > drums / Lee Sklar > electric bass /
Glenn Alexander > electric guitar / Michael Flannery > acoustic guitar, percussion /
MarK Luvman Pender > trumpet / Jerry Vivino > tenor sax / Roger Rosenberg > baritone sax / Richie ‘la bamba’ Rosenberg > trombone /
horn arrangement by Scott Healy

9. GOOD KINGS
Gabriel Judet-Weinshel > voice, acoustic and electric guitars / Danny Clinch > harmonica / Kevin Dukes > acoustic and electric guitars / Katherine Furman > voice /
Michael Flannery > voice / Scott Healy > Hammond B3 ORGAN / Shawn Pelton > drums / Lee Sklar > electric bass / Glenn Alexander > electric guitar

10. CRACKS IN THE ARCHITECTURE
Gabriel Judet-Weinshel > voice, electric guitars, synths and programming / Scott Healy > synth / Curt Bisquera > drums / Neil Stubenhaus > electric bass /
Jason Orme > electric guitar / Michael Flannery > voice, electric guitars, modular synth, percussion

11. LET'S NOT WAGE WAR (WE'LL JUST WRITE POETRY)
Gabriel Judet-Weinshel > voice, wurlitzer, synths, electric guitars / Scott Healy > Hammond B3 ORGAN / Shawn Pelton > drums / Lee Sklar > electric bass /
Glenn Alexander > electric guitar / Michael Flannery > electric guitar, percussion

12. RADIO OCEAN
with phrases from Arundhati Roy's ‘War Talk’
Gabriel Judet-Weinshel > voice, piano, nylon string guitar, clarinet, harpsichord, violin / Grace Kelly > alto sax / Scott Healy > accordion /
Shawn Pelton > drums and percussion / Chris Tarry > fretless bass / Maria Ahn > cello

13. ROSES
Gabriel Judet-Weinshel > VOICE, piano, nylon string guitar / Perla Batalla > voice / Scott Healy > Hammond B3 Organ, accordion / Curt Bisquera > drums /
Lee Sklar > electric bass / Michael Flannery > mandolin, electric and lap steel guitars