Magic Lantern, by Garden Gate

Magic Lantern

by Garden Gate

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Transparent yellow vinyl, 400 hand-numbered copies in a reverse card cover with printed inner sleeve.

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1.	Company (Main Theme) 01:41	buy track
2.	A Stroll Among the Tombs 00:28	buy track
3.	A Kiss Like Soil Smells After the Rain 00:44	buy track
4.	Touched (Main Theme) 02:17	buy track
5.	Two Days Until Halloween 01:17	buy track
6.	Psychometric Prophecy 00:13	buy track
7.	Magic Lantern (Main Theme) 02:52	buy track
8.	European Cigarettes 00:35	buy track
9.	Sea Legs (Main Theme) 02:41	buy track
10.	Flesh and Flies 00:55	buy track
11.	Cornflower Eyes 01:06	buy track
12.	A Powerful Beast of the Universe 00:58	buy track
13.	Secrets 01:00	buy track
14.	Rose Window (Main Theme) 02:13	buy track
15.	Cheap Maroon Lipstick 01:31	buy track
16.	The Overground Church 01:36	buy track
17.	Lace and Blood 00:45	buy track
18.	A Blank and Staring Eye 00:30	buy track
19.	The Final Vision 01:17	buy track
20.	Mayfair (Main Theme) 02:36	buy track
21.	Cape May Tomatoes 01:10	buy track
22.	My Body like Driftwood 01:11	buy track
23.	Blooming in the Crevices 00:38	buy track
24.	A Feral and Lazy Grin 01:05	buy track
25.	Her Voice was Sonorous and Lovery 01:01	buy track

about

Clay Pipe is pleased to introduce Garden Gate, the musical project of North Country, New York-based artist Timmi Meskers.

After her time with Brown Recluse, a bittersweet psych-pop sextet, and White Candles, a Radiophonic Workshop-inspired electronic duo, Meskers merged the qualities of both groups into a new project and the first Garden Gate single, Houses, appeared in 2016 on Good Behavior Records. Following this, came 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 sought-after 2021 LP, Blood Mansion, an original score for a conceptual horror film.

Magic Lantern is a collection of melancholy yet hopeful neoclassical 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 I found catharsis and healing in the creation of the music that soundtracked her characters' lives.”

Timmi Meskers 2024

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released March 29, 2024

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Sep 6

Glad Café

Glasgow, UK
Sep 8

The Blue Lamp

Aberdeen, UK
Sep 10

Hyde Park Book Club

Leeds, UK
Sep 11

Gullivers

Manchester, UK
Sep 12

Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath

Birmingham, UK
Sep 13

The Crofters Rights

Bristol, UK
Sep 14

The Lexington

London, UK
Sep 15

Real Magic Books

Wendover, UK
Sep 17

Cumberland Arms

Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Sep 18

Kazimier Stockroom

Liverpool, UK
Sep 20

Summerhall

Edinburgh, UK

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