The worldwide lockdown in the wake of the outbreak of the COVID pandemic meant musicians had to be a lot more innovative in how they went about their business and tried to make a living.
Glasgow-based singer/songwriter Louise Quinn and producer/musician Bal Cooke, with the support of Creative Scotland’s Open Fund to sustain creativity during lockdown, teamed up remotely with producer/ DJ Scott Fraser (London), producer/ DJ Kid Loco (Paris) and film/art director Tim Saccenti (New York) to form Gates of Light for the release of an eponymous album of what was described as a psychedelic, dream-pop glitch landscape of future folk, and which was released on Shimmy Records, a New York label owned by Mark Kramer, a veteran of the music scene.
The experience proved to be an enjoyable one, and the idea behind Gates of Light continued into the post-pandemic age, with three digitally released EPs that were rooted in different cities – Glasgow, Paris and London – which were then collated and released as Gates of Light II by Last Night from Glasgow in February 2025.
mp3: Gates of Light – I Keep Reaching For The Sun
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