Louise Quinn & GATES OF LIGHT Shares 'Gates Of Light' LP Via Beats Per Minute, Debut Album Out Now

Louise Quinn & GATES OF LIGHT Shares Gates Of Light LP Via Beats Per Minute Debut Album Out Now On Shimmy-Disc/Joyful Noise

Photo Cred: Steward Bryden LISTEN & SHARE: Louise Quinn - Gates Of Light Stream / Bandcamp   LISTEN & SHARE: Louise Quinn - "Walk On" Bandcamp / Spotify / Apple Music / Soundcloud LISTEN & SHARE: Louise Quinn - "Walk On" (Kid Loco Mix) Bandcamp LISTEN & SHARE: Louise Quinn - "Walk On" (DUB 4 - ZU Mix) Bandcamp "Gates Of Light don’t dwell in the darkness of the last year, but look to find brightness, hope and liveliness in any corner, and the resulting songs land somewhere between Nico, Serge Gainsbourg and a lo-fi Saint Etienne." - Beats Per Minute "A '60sish pop number that sounds a little like a more folky Lulu." - Brooklyn Vegan "A musing psychedelic pop track with a topical message about persevering through difficult times." - mxdwn "Fans of 60’s art-rock noir and the timeless urban folk of Nico and Leonard Cohen will revel in Quinn’s sophisticated grace, charm, and pop cabaret vocals." - Glide Today, Louise Quinn and GATES OF LIGHT share Gates Of Light LP out now on Shimmy-Disc/Joyful Noise. Beats Per Minute premiered the album, praising how "Gates Of Light don’t dwell in the darkness of the last year, but look to find brightness, hope and liveliness in any corner, and the resulting songs land somewhere between Nico, Serge Gainsbourg and a lo-fi Saint Etienne." The LP was recorded and produced remotely during lockdown 2020 in Glasgow, London, Paris and New York. Singer-songwriter Louise Quinn wrote songs which were recorded and produced by her husband Bal Cooke in their bedroom studio in Glasgow on headphones at night whilst their one year old boy/girl twins slept. Scott Fraser and Kid Loco remixed these tracks in their own home studios in London and Paris and responded with new tracks which Louise wrote over and Bal recorded. Film and art director Tim Saccenti responded to these tracks visually to create artwork for the releases and a video for album track ‘When The Leaf Falls’. Tim has also managed to create a remote band shot for the collaboration. The songs are inspired by the intensity of lockdown; an amplification of memories, grief, lucid dreams, appreciation of nature and longing. Stylistically the album was influenced by timeless and iconic artists like Nico, Sandy Denny and Vashti Bunyan as well as Andrew Weatherall, Robert Wyatt and Serge Gainsbourg. Music legend Kramer was drafted in to master the album, and after hearing it immediately offered to release it on his cult label Shimmy-Disc which boasts a back catalogue of incredible artists including Daniel Johnson and Galaxie 500. New single Walk On and Gates of Light the album are both out on Shimmy-Disc on 26/03/2021, and will be available on all digital platforms and CD (via Shimmy-Disc), featuring original artwork by Tim Saccenti and design by Build. LINKS Facebook | Bandcamp Gates Of Light - TRACKLISTING 1. Walk On 2. Next To Me 3. This Is How We Sound 4. Belleville Sun 5. Inevitable 6. On And On 7. And It Goes On 8. When The Leaf Falls 9. Lullaby  10. Mary And The Apocalyptic Woman 11. Damask Roses 12. In My Dreams Gates Of Light Bio: Gates Of Light is an international lockdown album collaboration between five artists across four cities, three time zones and two continents. Featuring the combined award-winning talents of singer-songwriter Louise Quinn and producer/musician Bal Cooke (Glasgow), producer/ DJ Scott Fraser (London), producer/ DJ Kid Loco (Paris) and film/art director Tim Saccenti (New York), it was made possible by the support of Creative Scotland’s Open Fund to sustain creativity during lockdown. The group came together remotely, after the pandemic arrived and countless gigs were cancelled, to make a sensory reflection of lockdown experiences in a psychedelic, dream-pop glitch landscape of future folk. Louise and Bal are a Glasgow based husband and wife team who have worked together for many years releasing records as A Band Called Quinn and DAWNINGS. Madonna once described Louise’s voice as ‘wonderful’ and best selling Scottish crime writer and music fan Ian Rankin wrote liner notes for one of her albums.  Bal has produced records for Domino Records, The Pastels, Bill Wells Trio, Tenniscoats and Lightships among others. Scott  has released and remixed on labels as diverse as Rush Hour, Wave, One Little Indian, Village Green, Bird Scarer and CGI Records. After a chance encounter at a nightclub in Glasgow, Louise and Scott Fraser collaborated on a release on Andrew Weatherall’s Birdscarer vinyl imprint label in 2019, featuring a remix by the Guv’nor himself who described the track as ‘sublime magik’. Louise has previously sung on many of Kid Loco’s records, and Kid Loco has in return produced albums and remixes for Bal and Louise. Jean-Yves Prieur, a.k.a Kid Loco is an innovator of the French electronic dance music scene. His best-known album is A Grand Love Story and he has also compiled and mixed a DJ mix album for the Another Late Night series on Azuli Records. He has worked with Jarvis Cocker, The Transistors and Glasgow bands A Band Called Quinn and Mogwai. Louise and Bal met Tim Saccenti in New York a long time ago through a mutual friend from Glasgow. Tim Saccenti is a director and photographer living in New York City and working worldwide. Tim’s groundbreaking visual output includes influential and genre defying films for artists ranging from indie icons Animal Collective, Run the Jewels and Squarepusher to legends Depeche Mode, Pharrell and Erykah Badu.