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This Door Is Forbidden

by Gates

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Edition of 60 c44 tapes
    Blue ink pad printing on metallic silver shells
    4-panel full colour double sided J-card with art by Jamie Lawson
    Vellum overlay with sigils by Stephen Wilson
    Printed by Milwaukee Cassette Works

    4 unreleased tracks on the tape
    Download includes 6 tracks: 4 tape tracks + a collaborative reinterpretation by CETACEA, CARES & HEXZUUL + an alternative master of This Door Is Forbidden
    hand numbered out of /60
    A total of 77 minutes of music (digital)

    Includes unlimited streaming of This Door Is Forbidden via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Streaming + Download

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  • THIS DOOR IS FORBIDDEN + THRONE OF LIGHT cassette (x2) bundle
    Cassette + Digital Album

    Special bundle price for both of the current ANAMNESIS tapes
    - "This Door Is Forbidden" tape + digital (SD-A02)
    - "Throne of Light" tape + digital (SD-A01)
    - includes downloads of both albums ("Throne of Light" dl code included in tape)

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

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Here, contains all to be known Between walls lost to fathomless air Phrases etched among walls of dust Hidden volumes In this presence of unseen divination Distance to feed the hunger Afraid of the light Scepters through the hallways Guided by unseen passages We dwelt here in radiant light Given, to the urge for disappearance Faces come forth Now they are lost to me
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ANAMNESIS | TWO

A further exposition from the Palace of Mirrors: Second 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.

"This Door Is Forbidden" wanders deep into the infinite library of the unconscious, beckoning you into its corridors. Hexagonal dimensions unfolding. You will be guided by unseen forces through passageways in the fathomless realms of the void.

The download will also include an alternative master version of the "Palace of Mirrors" album track, "This Door is Forbidden (corridor version)" and a collaborative reinterpretation of the same, created by CETACEA, CARES & HEXZUUL ((HEXAGONA)), bookending the other tracks. This reinterpretation has three distinct sections by each artist that is woven together to create a massive three part piece.

CETACEA cetacea.bandcamp.com
CARES cares.bandcamp.com
HEXZUUL hexzuul.bandcamp.com

credits

released June 30, 2017

Tracks 1 & 2 recorded by James Anderson
Tracks 3, 4 & 5 recorded by B.W. Bray
Mixed by B.W. Bray
Mastered by Marlon Wolterink

Artwork by Jamie Lawson
Sigils by Stephen Wilson
Tape design & layout by B.W. Bray

lineup:
Bryan W. Bray - guitars & effects, all
Pau Torres - synths on 1
James McDonough - vocals on 1 / guitar on 4 & 5
Chris Worden - guitar on 1

Hexagona: Bryan W. Bray, James Beardmore & David Jones

thank you: James Plotkin, James Anderson, Keith Utech, David Jones, James Beardmore, Rich Loren, Marlon Wolterink

Spectral Drift Editions
SD-A02

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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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