Gate
The Dew Line

THE REVIEW

Artist: Gate (Alias Michael Morley)

Title: The Dew Line

Year: 1993

Genre: Drone, Lo-Fi Indie, Noise Rock

Country: New Zealand

Label: Table Of The Elements

TRACKLIST

1. Millions

2. Needed All Words

3. Have Not

4. Autolevel

5. Venerable Clouds

6. Dew Line

7. Triphammer

FEW WORDS ABOUT THE ALBUM

One of the most disconcerting on my journey as a music listener.
I admit I am not the ultimate expert on drone music and noise music, but I must say this album has its own strength, its own poetry, which manages to capture through a sonic carpet on which the listener can weave a wide variety of mental suggestions, materializing thoughts like on a canvas.
The result is either a spider web constructed on sounds, which will unravel after listening into thin filaments, glimmers of thoughts, or a canvas on which sounds cling like muted colors.
The words, incomprehensible, recited by Michael Morley, as if from the depths of a catacomb, overshadowed by the music, are born and die as if nothing, but in their languid succession manage to gain a perverse energy.
I strongly recommend this album. It's not just a record: it's an experience.