In spite of this album being only the man's second solo effort, Eric Kampman is a veteran in the business with a career stretching twenty years back, including a stint as keyboardist and vocalist in the prog band Now. Kampman's first album The Well (see review in Tarkus no 20) was a somewhat sterile affair, and even if most of the music in The Gate is also electronic, the end result is quite different. He has used the number 7 as a starting point, something which, among other things, has resulted in all compositions being written in seven time.
01 Intro 3:57 02 The Gate Is Open 4:24 03 The Light 3:10 04 Careen / Ascend 4:08 05 Don't Try 4:28 06 The Gate Is Closed 6:56 07 Only Us 6:35 08 A Reason Why 8:07 09 The Light Reprise 1:50