CAIMIN GILMORE BlackGate 10"
NAKŁAD 500 SZT. / RĘCZNIE NUMEROWANY
OPAKOWANIE: 10” DELUXE TIP-ON-GATEFOLD
HALF SPEED MASTERING
On Friday, August 1, 2025, Irish composer and double bassist Caimin Gilmore releases his debut record BlackGate, via New Amsterdam Records in collaboration with Dublin based Ten Spot Records. BlackGate features renowned cellist Kate Ellis, harpist Lavinia Meijer, and Caimin Gilmore on double bass & DX7.
Well-known as one of Ireland's leading young double bassists, BlackGate marks Gilmore's emergence as a major new compositional voice, in a style reflective of his expansive collaborations as a performer. BlackGate is an instrumental composition and genre-fluid journey through myriad evocative sonic spaces, with exquisite writing not just for his own double bass, but for the harp and cello, accompanied by subtle Yamaha DX7 synthesizer passages that provide further sonic depth and color. The record encapsulates Gilmore’s idiosyncratic playing style, which has formed the bedrock to his work with artists across a diffuse spectrum of musical styles—from contemporary music to pop, classical and folk—in turn, becoming a manifestation of them all.
Gilmore is a member of Ireland’s ground breaking new music group Crash Ensemble. An interdisciplinary and versatile modern musician, he has shared the stage with internationally renowned artists like Lisa Hannigan, Dermot Kennedy, Aaron Dessner, Jessy Buckley, Dirty Projectors, Sam Amidon, Greg Saunier, to name a few, and is currently touring with Irish bands Ye Vagabonds & John Francis Flynn (Rough Trade/River Lea). He features on over 40 recordings, including releases from Damon Albarn, Boy Genius, and on Leonard Cohen’s posthumous album ‘Thanks for the Dance’ with European ensemble s t a r g a z e, among many others.
Kate Ellis is Artistic Director of Crash Ensemble, cellist with Martin Hayes’ Common Ground Ensemble and has toured with Bono as part of his Stories of Surrender show 2022-2023. Lavinia Meijer is a Sony Classical recording artist and the only classical musician to have reached the top 10 in the Dutch album charts for 3 consecutive solo albums. Her recording of Philip Glass’ ‘Metamorphosis’ went platinum in the Netherlands.
Commissioned by the BlackGate Cultural Centre Galway using funds from The Arts Council of Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
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