Jake Meginsky – Gates & Variations [LP] Ambient / New Age that sprang from Japanese noise

that sprang from Japanese noise scene

melancholic strings

As he takes a series of unlikely tools across his prone guitar with the grace and urgency of someone at a loom or an aircraft control panel

Though all of the pieces clearly belong to the same continuing exploration of the behaviour of sound in physical space and make use of related compositional devices

Two volumes were planned

Jake Meginsky – Gates & Variations [LP] Ambient / New Age that sprang from Japanese noise"Gates And Variations rounds out a loose trilogy of records by Jake Meginsky for Open Mouth. Not an intended trilogy on Jake's part but it has become one to my mind. It has come to be how I listen to them and experience them, all informing each other, echoing and challenging each other and growing into each other's space and light like a garden of plants that would never actually coexist anywhere in reality. Jake is always tirelessly reaching for