The work of the late David Lynch has been a large affect on Gates Of Gentle’s Louise Quinn and her collaborations with award-winning filmmaker Uisdean Murray over time.
“We’ve labored collectively a lot that we’ve developed a language,” says the Scottish singer/songwriter. “After I requested him if he may make one thing for ‘10,000 Years,’ he’d simply seen the clip from Misplaced Freeway the place Patricia Arquette was filmed very merely with a flickering blue-light impact.”
The eerie, ethereal “10,000 Years” was written with Gates Of Gentle’s Scott Fraser. “We each come from East Kilbride, the identical Scottish city the place the Jesus And Mary chain grew up,” says Quinn. “We get one another and have the same modus operandi: If you happen to can dream it, you are able to do it.”
“10,000 Years” may be discovered on the Gates Of Gentle II compilation, obtainable February 14 on Final Night time From Glasgow. Feeding off the success of 2021’s Gates Of Gentle, the brand new LP options tracks from a trio of EPs produced in Glasgow, Paris and London by Finlay MacDonald, Child Loco and Fraser, respectively. Serializing her current work got here out of necessity for Quinn, a single mum or dad caring for five-year-old twins. She even labored remotely to movie the “10,000 Years” video.
“I filmed myself on my iPhone,” she says. “To attain the blackout, I had to make use of my winter coat, pin it with garments pegs and use no matter was obtainable at residence. I labored rapidly whereas the youngsters had been at college.”
Regardless of the selfmade trapping, Quinn describes the expertise as cathartic. “I began crying in the course of the first take,” she says. “I didn’t know what Uisdean would do with the footage, but it surely’s truly excellent for the observe. It actually captures this intensely human expertise of grief within the vastness of eternity and time.”
We’re proud to premiere Gates Of Gentle’s “10,000 Years” video.
—Hobart Rowland
