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Gabrielle Roth passes at age 71.

Gabrielle Roth wouldn’t have won any musician polls.  She didn’t really play anything beyond some percussion.  Yet she was responsible for nearly two dozen albums over the last 20 years or so. She referred to herself as an urban shaman and with the floating personnel of her ensemble, Gabrielle Roth And The Mirrors, she released music and conducted dance movement workshops.  Gabrielle Roth passed away on October 22, after a long struggle with stage four lung cancer.

We interviewed Roth and her husband, Robert Ansell in the early 1990s. Walking into their Greenwich Village apartment I found Indian yarn paintings from North Mexico and Persian rugs amid a clutter of drums and percussion.

Drums were at the root of Gabriele Roth’s sound and one of the vehicles on what she called Maps To Ecstasy.  That’s also a book she wrote. Tall and lithesome…

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