The Gateless Gate "A Wider View"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock, Krautrock, Ambient, New Age
Format: CD, digital
Release date: May 1, 2019
Tracklist: 
1. I See Everything (8:15)
2. The Earth We Once Knew (5:32)
3. Landsat (5:33)
4. For David Attenborough (3:46)
5. Wise View (4:38)
6. Lake Land (5:47)
7. So Vast (5:06)
8. Urban Landscape (4:13)
9. Volcanoes Of Kamchatka (5:56)
10. Plateau (12:30)

Total Time 61:16

Line-up: 
Allister Thompson - all instruments

Description/Reviews: 

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. 

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Khan Tengri "KT2"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Psychedelic, Space Rock
Format: digital
Release date: September 22, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. Calling All Beings
2. The Golden Void
3. Ashoka
4. The Misanthrope's Blues
5. Vampyre 04:26
6. Minas Morgul
7. Ruins
8. Blind Statue
9. Last Days, Last Nights
10. The Streets of Charn

Line-up: 
Allister Thompson
   With
Tim TImleck - some drums and drum samples

Description/Reviews: 

The follow-up to 2016's "Aeons" finds Canada's Khan Tengri delving even deeper into the cavernous worlds of dark psychedelic music, space rock, progressive rock and ambient. Sixties and seventies influences abound in an extremely eclectic collection with a brooding, meditative, wryly cynical lyrical focus that often contains caustic commentary on humanity's failings. It's music to cheerfully accompany the apocalypse.

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Khan Tengri "Aeons"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Psychedelic, Space Rock, Krautrock
Format: digital
Release date: April 6, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. At The Mountains Of Madness (12:58)
   a) Arrival in Antarctica
   b) The disturbing scene at Lake’s camp
   c) The flight over the mountains
   d) In the aeon-dead Cyclopean city
   e) Fleeing from the horror
2. Kalpas (7:58)
3. Dualistic Stomp (5:23)
4. The Shining Sea (6:16)
5. No Beginning, No End (9:23)
6. The Holocene Extinction (5:28)
7. Hommage А Ligeti Et Feldman (5:03)
8. Maitreya Has Come, And All Is Renewed (5:20)
9. Silurian (10:38)

Total Time 68:27

Line-up: 
Allister Thompson (The Gateless Gate)
   With
Tim Timleck - drums and drum samples

Description/Reviews: 

The opening minutes have all the dread and foreboding of Lovecraft. An ominous drone with some swirling, barely audible chants mix with some skittering electronica to set up an atmosphere of impending doom. The eerie synths and drone provide a framework for some great guitarwork to build on....sounding like early Floyd and at one stage sounding exactly like a tortured scream. It builds into a kosmische soundscape, full of texture and atmosphere. What is evident is that early 70s German rock runs deep in this dude's blood, in both The Gateless Gate and Khan Tengri guises. The track culminates in some genuinely spooky wails and wooshes of synth...an epic track of kosmische horror.

Read the full review at dayzofpurpleandorange.blogspot.ca

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