The result is a collection of cold, mournful drones that drag you in and almost trick you into a false sense of security BOOMKAT
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Celer is Will Long, who currently lives in Tokyo, Japan, working in publishing, photography, music, and writing. He manages the label Two Acorns, and handles all releases, communication, and distribution of Celer and Chubby Wolf, also performing live regularly as Celer. Currently he is collaborating together with many artists such as with Miko under the name Oh, Yoko, and is involved in other individual projects with Mathieu Ruhlmann, Nicholas Szczepanik, Yui Onodera, Christoph Heemann, Corey Fuller, and Tomoyoshi Date. He recorded his deep and emotional soundscapes on many important records label such as Spekk, Infraction, Home Normal and Experimedia to name a few.
"In the winter of 2009, i spent two months living and working a short-term job in photography and surveying in South Alberta, Canada. Aside from the job, it gave me the opportunity to work further on " Without Retrospect, the Morning ", the final part of the water-themed trilogy of albums that included the previous releases Cursory Asperses and In Escaping Lakes. Some days the snow would be so heavy the sun would never show, and ice covered the windows in the mornings. The wind rushed up the banks of the nearby mountains, and whipped against the buildings. I had brought with me two Sony Tapecorder open reels, and a box of tapes of recordings from the past six months of piano and synthesizer. Using an endless delay system between the two open reels, i listened, layered, cut and pasted the tapes over time. Playing them out loud on the built-in speakers Tapecorder created a new type of texture, from combinations of the ice cold temperatures heated only by the room gas heater, reused tapes, and the decayed quality of the old speakers. After mixing and processing the tapes with microphone and contact microphone recordings of the ice, snow, and sub frequencies of the wind, the cracking and crunching sounds, both high and deep, seemed to appear naturally in the tape. The sub bass widened, and the mid range became thin and fragile.For more than two years the recordings remained untouched, until recently, now in Tokyo, they were mastered, and recorded to new tapes. The affects of the cold, the sudden sunsets through the snow, and the night winds still stay in my mind, like a soundtrack to those two months, not without their own songs of loneliness but with also beauty, sounds seeming like a siren, embracing every unchangeable and otherwise forgetful moment, even in the bitter winter." Will Long, October 2012.
Tracks List & info notes
Holdings of Electronic Lifts [3:33]
A Small Rush into Exile [5:14]
Dry and Disconsolate [10:38]
Variorum of Hierophany [4:31]
A Landscape Once Uniformly White [7:38]
Distance and Mortality [7:33]
With Some Effort, the Sunset [13:10]
Recorded in 2009-2011 by Will Long, in California, Mississippi, Alberta, and Tokyo Mastered August - September 2012 at Tatami Studios in Tokyo
Title 'Without Retrospect, the Morning' by Danielle Baquet-Long
Special thanks to Alessandro Tedeschi (Netherworld)
www.thesingularwe.org/celer
Cover Photo by Bjarne Riesto
Art Direction, photo manipulation and layout by Noah M/Keep Adding
a Glacial Movements release, November 2012.
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