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The Prevailing Wind

by Gates

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    15 test presses - three rounds of tests - were made for The Prevailing Wind LP in order to get the sound correct back in 2013. Those test presses are being made available here with exclusive packaging different than the main release, in fold over sleeves with half back flap.
    Each copy Hand-numbered on the back.

    LP sides will be marked with hand drawn worms which echoes the shells of the initial cassette edition. Includes a slightly revised version of the poster from the original pressing as well as a full download of the album with bonus track.

    **Please note that the audio quality of these vary greatly and should be considered an art / collectors item. We can not guarantee which round of presses your copy will be selected from as these have been stored without markings other than the album title since 2013.**

    **Please only one per person unless you are buying for a friend to save on shipping then please get in touch first and we can arrange that**

    The art here includes images that were conceived along the way in the development of the art for The Prevailing Wind and then considered for the LP edition. They didn't make it as part of the final version but still powerful and relevant for the story of this album. The cover image was used for a show poster for a performance inside of St. James Cathedral in Hamilton, Ontario shorty after the initial release of the cassette edition.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Prevailing Wind via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ... more
    ships out within 4 days
    edition of 15 
    Purchasable with gift card

      $25 USD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Includes bonus track, an 8-page digital booklet and high res cover image.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $7 USD  or more

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    'Permafrost' 180g vinyl LP (milky transparent w/grey haze) in black dust sleeves

    PLEASE NOTE: the order fulfillment for these LPs will be handled by Utech Records in Milwaukee, WI, USA. These are the REMAINING COPIES, recovered from Ivory Antler records. Bulk shipping to Canada from the US is astronomical right now so Utech has graciously offered to do this.

    IF YOU PLAN ON ORDERING ANYTHING ELSE FROM GATES BANDCAMP ALONG WITH THIS OPTION THEY WILL BE SEPARATE ORDERS COMING IN SEPARATE PACKAGES. PLEASE PROCESS YOUR ORDERS SEPARATELY OTHERWISE THE SHIPPING WON'T CALCULATE CORRECTLY. THANK YOU

    **When ordering it will say shipping "from Canada", which we can not change to "from US" without changing every merch item on the bandcamp page. Please be aware that the destinations are correct but it is indeed shipping "from the US"**

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    Tip-on style Stoughon jackets
    12"x12" matte insert
    11"x17" fold out poster
    Download includes bonus track 'Frost (Coda)' and a 8-page digital booklet
    Hand numbered out of 200

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Prevailing Wind via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ... more
    ships out within 7 days
    edition of 200  20 remaining
    Purchasable with gift card

      $15 USD or more 

     

  • LP - 180g 'permafrost' vinyl
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    'permafrost' (milky transparent w/grey haze) vinyl LP in black dust sleeves
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    Tip-on style Stoughon jackets
    12"x12" matte insert
    11"x17" fold out poster
    Download card for full digital album which includes bonus track 'Frost (Coda)' and a 8-page digital booklet
    Hand numbered out of 200

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Prevailing Wind via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

  • The Prevailing Wind LP - 180g BLACK vinyl

    180g BLACK VINYL
    * these are overrun from the limited to 50 2xLP sets. Four available.
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    Tip-on style Stoughon jackets
    12"x12" matte insert
    11"x17" fold out poster
    Download card for full digital album which includes bonus track 'Frost (Coda)' and a 8-page digital booklet

    Sold Out

  • LAST REMAINING COPY OF CASSETTE EDITION (1)
    Cassette + Digital Album

    Unearthed one lone copy of the original cassette edition. This may have been a extra or it may have been forgotten, is it numbered however. Either way, the only difference is that the sides are marked with two worms and three worms, for A and B respectively, rather than one worm and two for all the others.*

    3-panel j-cards with 2-panel vellum overlay (first Gates release to use this method)
    Black shells with hand drawn worms
    Initially released in 2011 in an edition of 50
    This is #33/50

    more info + pictures can be found here: devdformats.blogspot.com/2011/06/gates-prevailing-wind-cs.html

    * 2 worms = Side A / 3 = Side B

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Prevailing Wind via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

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about

Digital re-master & LP edition of Gates second album, previously only available as a long sold out edition of cassettes. Download includes bonus track 'Frost (coda)', a digital booklet & high res cover image.

The birth of humanity, the invention of ritual.
vimeo.com/28640285

The original:
devdformats.blogspot.com/2011/06/gates-prevailing-wind-cs.html

credits

released April 10, 2013

All music & instruments by Bryan W. Bray - guitars, bass, voice & field recordings

Mastered by James Plotkin
Insert and label photography by A.E. Csaky
Design, layout, jacket photography & illustration by Bryan W. Bray

Ivory Antler 15

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Gates

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
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