A Mask Hidden In Memory

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K.E. Another release from the kings of "conceptual drone-doom": just like the previous releases of the "Anamnesis" series, "A Mask Hidden In Memory" successfully explores the depths of ambient, minimalist avant-garde drone, without ever sounding stripped down.
Favorite track: Paramnesia.

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Cassette + Digital Album
Edition of 60 c38 tapes
White ink pad printing on blue shells
4-panel full colour double sided J-card with art by Niels Geybels
Vellum overlay with sigils by Stephen Wilson
Printed by Milwaukee Cassette Works

3 unreleased tracks on the tape
Download includes 5 tracks: 3 tape tracks + a remix/reinterpretation by Aidan Baker + an alternative master of A Mask Hidden In Memory
hand numbered out of /60
A total of 55 minutes of music (digital)

*Each order also includes a vinyl sticker with art by Stephen Wilson*

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	1.	A Mask Hidden In Memory {ascesis version} 10:38
	2.	To the Common Path of Illusion 18:20
	3.	Paramnesia 08:23
	4.	Laudanum: Third Declension 10:16
	5.	The Passing State of Plurality [Aidan Baker reinterpretation] 07:56

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ANAMNESIS | FOUR

A further exposition from the Palace of Mirrors: This is the fourth release in a series of four tape editions. Each one named after and based off one of the four pieces that make up the album "Palace of Mirrors". Each presenting a specific modality and conceptual form related to the piece of music it is named after. Each track on Palace of Mirrors represents the distillation of several versions of the compositions through various methods and forms and these recordings represent that process.

The albums tracks each have a corresponding sigil, created by artist Stephen Wilson, which are herein used to mark each set of material, each tape, linking it to its specific parent track. Essentially marking doors that lead to different chambers where you will find the world that the pieces inhabit.

"A Mask Hidden In Memory" attempts to reveal the secrets of the palace, pushing aside the veils of the doorways in the corridors to find yet another face, after face, after face, layer upon layer of forms receding infinitely. This is the end of the way, or rather another beginning. You may not remember things to be exactly as they were.

The download will also include an alternative master version of the "Palace of Mirrors" album track, "A Mask Hidden In Memory {ascesis version}" and a remix/reinterpretation of the same, created by AIDAN BAKER of NADJA, CAUDAL, B/B/S/, ARC, WHISPER ROOM et al, bookending the other tracks.

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released January 8, 2018

Recorded by James Anderson
Mixing & editing by B.W. Bray
Mastered by Marlon Wolterink

Artwork by Niels Geybels
Sigils by Stephen Wilson
Tape design & layout by B.W. Bray

lineup:
Bryan W. Bray - guitars, organ, textures
Pau Torres - synths
James McDonough - guitar/effects on 2
Chris Worden - guitar/space echo on 1, 2 & 3

thank you: Marlon Wolterink, Niels Geybels, Aidan Baker, James Plotkin, James Anderson, Keith Utech, Rich Loren

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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.

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