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A Wider View

by The Gateless Gate

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wc_helmets There are many aspects that separate Gateless Gate from other instrumental post-rock influenced music. Primarily, there is a true sense of optimism that literally lifts you up to see the bigger picture. Beautiful music, with an expanded palette of Berlin School, field recordings and even some shoegaze on top of trademark guitar and hints of mellotron. Great album. Favorite track: Landsat.
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1.
I See Everything 08:15
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The Earth We Once Knew 05:32
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Landsat 05:33
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For David Attenborough 03:46
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Wise View 04:38
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Lake Land 05:47
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So Vast 05:06
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Urban Landscape 04:13
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Volcanoes of Kamchatka 05:56
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Plateau 12:30
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about

The title "A Wider View" reflects a dual purpose.

First, this an eclectic and diverse collection that encompasses and expands upon all genres of instrumental music that the Gateless Gate has created since 2012: progressive rock, psychedelic pop, post-rock, ambient, new age, and Krautrock/kosmische.

Second, as the album cover indicates, the music suggests we take a wide-screen view of the beauty of our home and consider how lucky we are to live here...to live at all on this wonderful, (currently) habitable planet.

Track 4 is dedicated to conservationist and broadcaster David Attenborough because I grew up watching his nature programs and continue to do so. He has done as much as anyone to foster a love of the Earth and the life on it in people like me over several decades.

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released May 1, 2019

VIDEO for "SO VAST":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh8d8TqNbec
VIDEO for "LANDSAT::
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqz1QfQ5-xw
VIDEO for "THE EARTH WE ONCE KNEW":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDkr72PMkIU

Images on the cover:

Winter landscapes by Allister Thompson
Scenes of Toronto, Canada by Teri-Lynn Janveau

Creative Commons images with some cropping to create the appropriate file size:

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ESO_-_Milky_Way.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panorama_of_Himalayas_Leh_India.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gobi_Desert_Panorama.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jungle_Panorama_(2833299629).jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panorama_View_of_Pacific_Ocean_from_Point_Lobos.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reef_panorama_(5771071900).jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pudong,_Shanghai_Panorama_01.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kyoto_Sunset_Panorama.jpg
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This is the place to find the psychedelic, progressive, ambient, and folk/rock music of Allister Thompson released under his own name and as The Gateless Gate, Sons of Birches, Twilight Fields, and Khan Tengri.

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