Alex Wroten: Los Angeles Writer-Director-Composer
Description: The Gatekeepers is a part-musical, part-concept album featuring an ensemble cast of "weird musicians."
An Avant-Rock Opera About Rejection
The Gatekeepers is a part-musical, part-concept album about an artist trying to get their work out in the world but facing a series of sardonic, disinterested gatekeepers. The 15-song cycle explores the creative process from beginning to end, including the cynical aspects of marketing art to the public and the toughness of deciding your own artistic fate.
With a sophisticated blend of progressive, left-field rock, jazz, folk, and lo-fi electronic, brought to life by over thirty special guest artists , The Gatekeepers creates a captivating musical contrast. Occasionally hypnotic, sometimes turbulent, the eclectic mix is reminiscent of The Lamb Lies Down Broadway , Of Montreal, Kurt Weill and the Canterbury sound with a nod to Zappa.
Alex Wroten: Los Angeles Writer-Director-Composer