China Gate

by Cul de Sac

China Gate cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 21 May 1996
  • Label: Thirsty Ear
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:04:28
  • Community rating: 3.89/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Jon Proudman, Chris Fujiwara

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Expanding upon the sprawling structures of early post-rock, the instrumental group blended krautrock rhythms with intricate, surf-inspired guitar dissonance. The sessions emphasized complex polyrhythms and an improvisational ethos inspired heavily by John Fahey and Can. It remains a critically revered entry in the mid-90s American underground, bridging the gap between space rock and modern experimentalism.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, rhythmic, atmospheric, technical, expansive

Tracklist

  1. China Gate (1:10)
  2. Sakhalin (5:49)
  3. Nepenthe (8:43)
  4. Doldrums (5:42)
  5. James Coburn (6:30)
  6. Virgin Among Cannibals (2:10)
  7. ...His Teeth Got Lost In The Mattress... (3:04)
  8. Hemispheric Events Command (6:13)
  9. The Fourth Eye (11:33)
  10. The Colomber (6:12)
  11. China Gate (Reprise) (0:30)
  12. Utopia Pkwy. (6:52)

Credits

  • Chris Fujiwara - bass, vocals, vocals [vocal solo], vocal
  • Jon Proudman - drums, vocals, vocal
  • Glenn Jones - guitar [guitars], performer [contraption], vocals, written-by, vocal
  • Ed Rogers - lettering [hand-lettering ("cul de sac")]
  • Robin Amos - synthesizer [synthesizers], vocals, electronics, vocal
  • Harold Adamson - written-by
  • Victor Young - written-by

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