TIM HECKER AND GATE
MANCHESTER: Islington Mill
MON 6TH DEC, 2010 7.30pm

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/95440

fucking manchester?!

on dime, i can upload here if anyone wants it...

Gate 2010-10-02 Melbourne aud master

I was listened to Republic of Sadness properly for the first time the other night, with no distractions, and realised it's not just good, it's absolutely fucking marvellous. I was so absorbed that I forgot to get off the train at my station, and had to walk six and a half miles home from the next one in the early hours of the morning. I didn't listen to it again while I was walking, it was down unlit roads with no footpath, and I thought it would be a good idea to have my wits about me.



I have two days' holiday left that I can take before the end of January. Do I do this or not?

(I'm just thinking out loud, not asking for advice)



Yes, please! :)

^^Dunno, maybe you should first check on the Dead C yahoo group if it's the only UK date?

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7rz0t0 (flac)

artist: Gate
venue: Northcote Uniting Church, Melbourne, Australia
event: Static Age Festival - Stage 2 (Church Stage)
date: Saturday 2 October 2010


1. one continuous piece (23:30)

Michael Morley - guitar, effects

recorded/encoded/seeded on Dime by crankingamps 18Oct10

lineage: Core Sound HEB (matched DPA4061) mics
> Core Sound Battery Box (flat response, no filter)
> Edirol R-09HR digital recorder (line in)
> 16GB PNY Class 6 SDHC Card as 24-bit 48kHz .wav file
> Adobe Audition 3 convert to 16-bit 44.1kHz, normalise (+10dB), trim top/tail (sector aligned)
> FLAC Frontend 1.7.1 (level 8)

nothing has been posted about any UK Dead C dates yet so it might be worth asking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTa98...eature=related

love to see what effects he's using... its a rather simple pedal setup appears to be the following

Electro-Harmonix Graphic Fuzz -> Boss Space Echo -> Boss Loop Station

Dutch date! Added to State-X lineup according to http://www.festivalinfo.nl/news_deta...?news_id=11502.

^^Not bad!
Last night I was told by someone in the know that they did try to get The Dead C as well, but they're not (allowed?) doing anymore gigs other than the ones already announced.
Anyway, Gate + Borbetomagus means I'll probably get a ticket for the Saturday.


Also, for Blunderbuss:
Gate in Cambridge on December 7th
http://www.crushingdeath.com/2010/10/25/gate/
(I guess that probably means London on the 8th or 9th?)

I'll keep the ol' fingers in a state of crossedness.

So where will I be on December 7th? In bed, trying to fight off the flu, that's where. I have a feeling that fate is never going to allow me to see a Gate show.

get well soon blunderbuss... :(

I enjoyed his performance in Den Haag, even though I'm pretty sure Michael Morley himself didn't.

Does anybody have this one? What's it like?

^
Never seen it before. What is it? (I promise I won't bid against you!)

It's a Gate LP called "Amerika". I already "won" it on eBay yesterday... but there's another one up for auction right now:
http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...m=330511519757

I hadn't heard of it before. The seller has some other rare Gate releases up for sale as well. I'll probably be bidding on one or two of them.

Great! You know where to send them for flacification. :D

Gate at Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit:


Friday, April 1st at 8PM
Michael Morley/Gate, Blank Dogs, Dark Red and Mountains
Admission: $8.00

Michael Morley performs solo as Gate on this very exciting occasion. Michael Morley is one third of pioneering New Zealand experimentalists the Dead C. Willfully obscure, real life legends, the Dead C brought together avant-garde jazz, and a wandering, playful sense of experimentalism. They added a sincere sneer and a little punk rock nihilism and opened the door for fuzzed-out, abrasive, free noise to become the sound of the underground for a generation to come.

Blank Dogs are the project of Mike Sniper, a multi-instrumentalist songwriter living in Brooklyn, NY. Recording for the In the Red label, Sniper has released several albums under the Blank Dogs moniker of skuzzy, indie-pop that are essentially solo albums. As a touring band the group raises and catchy, fuzz-laden throbbing wall of sound that is a marvel to behold live.

Detroit's Dark Red maintain a similarly psychedelic sound but with a more bombastic view of minimalism and drone, punching out sweet and simple pop tones with a gritty, wall-of-noise sensibility.

Mountains are a psychedelic folk music group from Brooklyn, NY using acoustic instruments and electronics to explore the inner depths through minimalist drones and heavy repetitions.

http://www.mocadetroit.org/upcomingevents.html

I hope the Dead C guys all got safely through the earthquake.

Yeah. Likewise Peter Wright, who lives in Lyttleton.

Bruce Russell is supposed to be performing there this weekend. I hope for the town's sake it can go ahead.

I'm listening to the local radio station online at the moment, and there's a lot of minor tremours still going on. Hope they stay minor.

And Campbell Kneale... but he's on tour in Europe right now, skipping Holland of course.

I think Bruce Russell lives in Lyttleton too. He was quoted in The Guardian after the previous earthquake a few months ago.

yeah hope they are all safe this one was more devastating by the death toll and damage...

I have a copy of Gate's Amerika on cdr and its more guitar-based from what I remember I need to listen to it again, I think it has some layers of just guitar based stuff and is not like his other releases where Morley utilizies more samples and electronics.

PELT + GATE + PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES
Cafe Oto - THU 4TH OCT, 2012 8PM
£10.00
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/177248

Can I have a brief review, please?

New Gate LP, reviewed at Volcanic Tongue:

Gate
Moths
Dilettante Courtoisie DC-02
£18.99

Massive new album from Michael Morley of The Dead C’s solo Gate project, here given an ass-blasting three guitar makeover: Moths sees Morley joined by Sara Stephenson of NZ droners Doramaar and Nina Canal of NY No Wave unit Ut, presenting an extended investigation into the collapsing universe sound of the more endlessly focussed Gate/Dead C/Wreck Small Speakers jams, with the sound of amp hiss over slow-nodding minor chord descensions and the kind of organisational logic that is truly out-of-focus. There’s something almost orchestral in the way the guitar tones are smudged into cotton wool arcs of electricity, with peaking, overarching melodies more implied than stated, especially in the way that Morley threads subtly epic bass lines into the background, repeating amazing downer crescendos that just kind of hang in the air and vibrate. Morley’s vocal are even more dilated and narcoleptic than usual, sounding like he’s singing just off mic, exhaling slowly into the mass of the three guitars, and the feeling is oddly euphoric, like a slow motion vertical ascent or your favourite rock song being gradually pulled apart in three different directions. As with all of the Gate recordings there’s an understated melancholy to the proceedings and in a way this is the most epic album from Gate to date, forsaking previous experiments in electronica and short song forms for long, endlessly unravelling jams that are smudged to the point of hallucinatory epiphany. Somehow unmistakably a Michael Morley work while simultaneously exceeding anything he has done before, this is the weirdest, greatest, most cryptic extension of his rock/jam logic to date. It’s an album that reveals more with every listening and that makes demands that most records wouldn’t even know how to articulate.

Live footage of Michael Morley with Nina Canal and Sara Stephenson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTm26xyyclk

Yeah, that was a great show. Taped the entire set, should (re)upload that sometime.

Hell yes you should! :p

This is pretty sick. Very tempted to pick up the LP from Volcanic Tongue.

Assuming you mean the VT physical store: any chance you can pick up 1 or 2 copies for me? Ta in advance!

Hey dude, was just going to mail order rather than trek through to Glasgow, don't know if it would work out much cheaper than you ordering directly or me ordering and forwarding copies on to you.

Gotcha. Fair enough, will contact VT directly.

Is the LP a recording of that show?

Doubt it. I did send my recording to Morley and Canal, but neither said they were going to use it.

It's available elsewhere, and cheaper.

http://www.infinite-limits.com/produ...r-records.aspx

http://www.a-musik.com/p/product/gat...lp-085528.html

http://www.metamkine.com/?monlabelrec=1580

http://www.soundohm.com/product/GATE-/Moths/pid/20109/

http://www.discogs.com/Gate-Moths/release/4645838

Yeah, VT are kind of pricey

I know he spent a few weeks in the WORM studio around that time, so it could well be something they recorded together in the studio.


BTW, you recorded M. Morley's set from last month in Rotterdam too, right?

edit: I mean from April... wow, time flies :eek:

nevermind, new LP is indeed a recording of that 2009 show:
"Recorded by Roland Groenenboom at De Player, Rotterdam in August 2009 and mixed at My Pit, Port Chalmers, in 2011."


sorry, I must've missed this... do you still want one?

OOP Gate / Morley stuff to liberate at Bleak Bliss:
http://bleakbliss.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=morley
http://bleakbliss.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=gate

Ta!