China Gate (album)

China Gate
China Gate
Studio album by Cul de Sac
Released	May 21, 1996
Recorded	August 1995 at Rainfarm Studios, North Reading, Massachusetts
Genre	Post-rock, space rock
Length	64:28
Label	Flying Nun/Thirsty Ear
Producer	Cul de Sac, Jon Williams
Cul de Sac chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Alternative Press	^[3]

China Gate is an album by Cul de Sac, released in 1996.^[4]^[5] The album incorporated elements of surf rock.^[6]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that "[Jon] Proudman is an extremely musical drummer who can hold down the fort while taking off on flights of fancy with the liquidly propulsive [Chris] Fujiwara."^[7] Rolling Stone praised "the deft, pointillist strokes with which guitarist Glenn Jones dots the margins of his spare compositions."^[8]

Paste listed the album as one of the "50 Best Post-Rock Albums", writing that it "set the bar for the group's expansive experimentalism, allowing them to work Can-like rhythms, Eastern-influenced melodies, flickering electronics, and plenty of noise into their deconstructions of the rock idiom."^[9]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"China Gate"	Harold Adamson, Victor Young	1:11
2.	"Sakhalin"	Glenn Jones	5:49
3.	"Nepenthe"	Glenn Jones	8:47
4.	"Doldrums"	Glenn Jones	5:45
5.	"James Coburn"	Robin Amos, Chris Fujiwara, Glenn Jones, Jon Proudman	6:30
6.	"Virgin Among Cannibals"	Robin Amos, Chris Fujiwara, Glenn Jones, Jon Proudman	2:09
7.	"...His Teeth Got Lost in the Mattress..."	Glenn Jones	3:06
8.	"Hemispheric Events Command"	Glenn Jones	6:15
9.	"The Fourth Eye"	Glenn Jones	11:36
10.	"The Colomber"	Glenn Jones	6:16
11.	"China Gate" (reprise)	Harold Adamson, Victor Young	0:31
12.	"Utopia Pkwy."	Glenn Jones	6:51

Personnel

Cul de Sac

Robin Amos – synthesizers, sampler, vocals
Chris Fujiwara – bass guitar
Glenn Jones – guitar
Jon Proudman – drums, vocals

Production and additional personnel

Cul de Sac – production
Nancy Given – design
Bill Salkin – engineering
Walter Stickle – engineering
Jon Williams – production, engineering

References

^ Buckley, Peter (March 8, 2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. ISBN 9781843531050 – via Google Books.
^ Raggett, Ned. "China Gate". AllMusic. Retrieved April 1, 2013.
^ columnist (June 1996). "China Gate". Alternative Press: 75.
^ Gordon, Jade (Jun 8, 1996). "Albums — China Gate by Cul-de-Sac". Melody Maker. 73 (23): 49.
^ Hacker, Scot (Sep 1996). "Music — China Gate by Cul De Sac". Utne Reader (77): 100.
^ "Cul de Sac interview- Perfect Sound Forever". www.furious.com.
^ Rompers, Terry (2007). "Cul de Sac". Trouser Press. Retrieved April 1, 2013.
^ Sprague, David (Jun 27, 1996). "China Gate". Rolling Stone. No. 737. p. 59.
^ "The 50 Best Post-Rock Albums". pastemagazine.com. December 18, 2016.

External links

China Gate at Discogs (list of releases)

[1] Buckley, Peter (March 8, 2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. ISBN 9781843531050 – via Google Books.

[allmusic-2] Raggett, Ned. "China Gate". AllMusic. Retrieved April 1, 2013.

[altpress-3] umnist (June 1996). "China Gate". Alternative Press: 75.

[4] Gordon, Jade (Jun 8, 1996). "Albums — China Gate by Cul-de-Sac". Melody Maker. 73 (23): 49.

[5] Hacker, Scot (Sep 1996). "Music — China Gate by Cul De Sac". Utne Reader (77): 100.

[6] "Cul de Sac interview- Perfect Sound Forever". www.furious.com.

[TP-7] Rompers, Terry (2007). "Cul de Sac". Trouser Press. Retrieved April 1, 2013.

[8] Sprague, David (Jun 27, 1996). "China Gate". Rolling Stone. No. 737. p. 59.

[9] "The 50 Best Post-Rock Albums". pastemagazine.com. December 18, 2016.

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v t e Cul de Sac
Robin Amos Glenn Jones Jonathan LaMaster Jon Proudman Jake Trussell
Studio albums	ECIM I Don't Want to Go to Bed China Gate Crashes to Light, Minutes to Its Fall Death of the Sun
Live albums	Immortality Lessons
Soundtracks	The Strangler's Wife
Collaboration projects	The Epiphany of Glenn Jones Abhayamudra