The symbolism of boats

Symbolically a boat is a means of ‘ecstatic transport’. As Water is the symbol for spirit, one ‘sails in ecstasy’

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CREDITS

PAINTINGS
Botticelli: The Birth of Venus from the Medici
Georges Seurat – various paintings
Rosemary Rock-Evans – Magic Ship, Sailing and Rowing
L S Lowry – Sailing boats
Edouard Manet – The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama
Arnold Böcklin - Odysseus and Polyphemus
John William Waterhouse – Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus
Gustave Dore – Illustration for Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner
Otto Sinding - Fra Reine, Lofoten, Norway

VIDEO
David Rock-Evans taken in Mull, Scotland

MUSIC
Evening Lake by Gilmore Trail

We are Gilmore Trail, an instrumental post-rock band based in Sheffield in the UK.

We have Danny and Dave on guitars, Joe on bass and Bob on drums.
We supplement our core band sound with synth, soundscapes and field recordings, taking our cues from aspects of progressive rock.
Our music is purely instrumental, inspired by the vastness and majesty of the natural world.

We feel that the music takes us and the listener on various journeys, from rolling green hills to icy wastes, from the most arid deserts shooting up into the astonishing emptiness and stillness of deep space.

Our website can be found at www.gilmoretrail.co.uk
We can be contacted at [email protected]