Viscera by Gates
This is the first release to feature material from the Vas song books.
Gates, in the duo form of Bryan W. Bray and Joel Beauchamp, were invited to perform at Utech Records Music Festival III. The day prior to the festival, the duo visited radio station WMSE where they played a live set of Vas material in a stripped down arrangement.
That set is Viscera side A.
Viscera side B delves into the Vas studio recordings, some thought abandoned as mere experiments or sketches. Bray pulled them apart and reconstructed them into new ideas, revealing the inner workings of the conceptual vessel to complement the primal essence of the live performance. Taking various elements of psychedelic noise and improv filtered through the lens of metal and heavy atmospherics, Gates plunge directly into territory of their own making.
A/ SELECTIONS FROM THE BOOKS OF VAS: A RENDITION FOR DUO
I. Conversions of the Three: Copal (νοῦς) / Perils / Emanation Body
II. Supine In Viscera
III. Vivum
B/ THE RESIDUUM: ((Anima))
Palimpsest Unfolding:
I. Within the Antechamber
II. Somnolence of the Adversary
III. Feathers Spreading Over Skin
Tracklist
Credits
SIDE A:
Bryan W. Bray - guitar & electronics
Joel Beauchamp - drums & synth
live performance at WMSE in Milwaukee, WI June 2015
Recorded by Billy Cicerelli
Mixed & mastered by Marlon Wolterink
SIDE B:
Bryan W. Bray: guitars
Joel Beauchamp: synth
John Harry: bass & effects
Recorded by Sean Pearson at Boxcar Sound in Hamilton, ON.
January 2015
Mixed by Bryan W. Bray
Mastered by Marlon Wolterink
Art & design by Jamie Lawson
thank you: Keith Utech, Jamie Lawson, Billy Cicerelli, Tom Crawford, Sean Pearson, Otto Kokke, René Aquarius, Dana Schechter, Dag Erik Knedal Anderson, Dag Stilberg & everyone involved with Utech Records Music Festival III
License
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GATES is a undefinable musical entity emerging from the heart of modern experimental composition. Wielding abstractions harvested from the idioms of doom, drone and black metal and from the outer worlds of prog, jazz and neo-classical music, embedding them within an amalgamation of avant-garde approaches to texture, noise and ambience.
photo by Karol Orzechowski