Rami Gabriel is a composer and producer whose work embodies sonic hybridity and experimentation. He weaves the oud, guitar, and electric buzuq through blues, jazz, dub, lo-fi industrial, post-punk, and traditional forms.

Rami Gabriel’s scholarship in psychology and cognitive sciences focuses on memory, consciousness, affective neuroscience, self, and philosophy of science.

tunderizer

lp from SOOPER RECORDS

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Rami Gabriel’s second solo LP Tunderizer focuses the harsh experimentalism of post-punk industrial upon the intimate sphere of home. Like shadows crossing through mirrors, a mesh of lo-fi noise art and field recordings obscures expertly tuned songwriting. Tunderizer fires in all registers, from irrepressible melody to deconstructive static, from country to tarab, skronk to delta blues.

Rami Gabriel makes music like no one else in Chicago

– LEOR GALIL, CHICAGO READER

Album cover titled 'Tunderizer' by Rami Gabriel, from Sooper Records (2026), featuring polaroid images.

tour dates

Aug 28 – The Arab Blues, Hungry Brain, Chicago

Sep 5 – The Arab Blues, Global Gardens Chicago @ Albany Park

Sep 8 – Rami & The Reliables featuring Jon Doyle on saxophone, Simon’s Tavern, Chicago, 8:30 pm

Sep 9 – Duo with Alex Hall, Broken Hearts, Chicago

Sep 13 – Rami & The Reliables, Ravenswood ArtWalk, Chicago

Oct 10 – Trio with Dadad, Art Of Gallery, Chicago

recent publications

“Sensible Affective Knowledge of Imaginary Orders in Art.” In Religion and the Work of Art, edited by Bryan S. Rennie. Equinox Press, 2026 (forthcoming).
“Humanity is no less superstitious now than in the past.” The Institute of Art and Ideas, 2025.
“Inter-level explanation: the case of neuropsychoanalysis.” Synthese 206, 2025.