Gates Of Light is an international lockdown collaboration featuring the combined award-winning talents of singer-songwriter Louise Quinn and producer/musician Bal Cooke (Glasgow) with producer/ DJ Scott Fraser (London), producer/ DJ Kid Loco (Paris) and film/art director Tim Saccenti (New York). The group have been collaborating remotely during lockdown to create an album which reflects lockdown experiences in a psychedelic, dream-pop glitch landscape of future folk. 


Recorded in Glasgow and Paris, Walk On is the first single from the album; a song for the oppressed inspired by the life of female Italian Renaissance sculptor Properzia de' Rossi, who when denied access to marble, created beautifully intricate friezes on apricot, peach, and cherry stones.



Louise and Bal are a husband and wife team who run Tromolo Productions, and have worked together for many years releasing records as A Band Called Quinn and DAWNINGS. After a chance encounter with Scott Fraser at a nightclub in Glasgow, Louise and Scott collaborated on a release on Andrew Weatherall’s Birdscarer vinyl imprint label in 2019 featuring a remix by the Guv’nor himself who described the track as ‘sublime magik’. Louise has sung on many of Kid Loco’s records and Kid Loco has in return produced albums and remixes for Bal and Louise. Louise and Bal met Tim in New York a long time ago through a mutual friend from Glasgow. Tim does artwork for Run The Jewels, Pharrell and Travis Scott among others.


Music legend Kramer was drafted in to master the album and after hearing it immediately offered to release it on his cult label Shimmy Disc which boasts a back catalogue of incredible artists including Daniel Johnson and Galaxie 500.


New single Walk On and Gates Of Light the album are out on Shimmy Disc on 26/03/2021.


Available on all digital platforms and on CD from Shimmy Disc featuring original artwork by Tim Saccenti and design by Build.


Recorded and produced remotely during lockdown 2020 in Glasgow, London, Paris and New York.


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