Garden Gate - Magic Lantern
Clay Pipe is pleased to introduce Garden Gate, the musical project of North Country, New York-based artist Timmi Meskers.
With a clutch of acclaimed releases on labels such as Sunstone and Library of the Occult, notably The Dark Harvest LP (which received a 5-star review in Shindig) and the 2021 LP Blood Mansion. Garden Gate takes inspiration from the countercultural energy of the mid-to-late 1960s and the new occult revival of the period.
Magic Lantern is a collection of melancholy yet hopeful neo-classical library pieces with analogue electronic elements that originally soundtracked Audible Originals’ Strange Company audiobook. 
Here, Timmi explains how the project came about:
“The first glimmer of Magic Lantern flickered over the kitchen sink, if memory serves. I was cleaning up with a dear friend, author Roan Parrish, and we were discussing how we could collaborate creatively. Our first idea was that she would share prose to inspire my themes, and inversely, I would share a few original themes to inspire her writing. Before we knew it, what started as a handful of stories and songs, damp with soap suds, ended up becoming a fully scored audiobook anthology for Audible Originals called Strange Company.
As a long-time fan of soundtracks and library music, I was thrilled by the opportunity to see just how much emotion I could compress into the brief connecting links that would augment a furtive kiss, a painful psychic vision, or a breeze across the bones of a scorched landscape.
Midway through the recording process, my long-term relationship broke down, and Roan let me set up a field studio in her home. I found myself grasping at any beauty I could find in the hope that it would spill into the music. Several themes from an unrealised Garden Gate album about the life of Dion Fortune also found their way in (notably, the title track), and the score became a bit more personal than initially charted. In the doomed outsiders of Roan’s gorgeously creeping prose, it was hard not to see aspects of my own life, and there was catharsis and healing in the creation of the music that soundtracked her characters' lives.”

Timmi Meskers 2024

07 Magic Lantern (Main Theme)

Surface Tension | Rob St John

Released April 2015 as a book, CD and download.  

Field recordings and music made along the River Lea in East London, exploring landscape and pollution in the Lea valley.

Made with binaural microphones, underwater hydrophones, tape loops, harmonium, analogue synth, tube organ, cello, piano and guitar.

Commissioned by Thames 21's Love the Lea campaign.

Full details: http://www.surfacetension.org.uk

Shop: http://www.surfacetensionriverlea.bandcamp.com

Contact: robst_john@hotmail.com

Surface Tension (Album)

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Letting Go Variations

Kirill Nikolai - Reconstructions, For Lack Of Anything Else

Isn't it pretty?

Written and produced by Chris Sharp.
Voices by Chris Sharp.

(c) 2012 Chris Sharp
(p) 2012 Chris Sharp

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07 Magic Lantern (Main Theme)

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