We've had a number of Celer releases in lately and some of you just can't get enough of their mellow ambient ways. Though I've just started to listen to this new CD 'In Escaping Lakes' which has just arrived from Japan and some knobhead has started drilling next door which is totally ruining the ambient chi..... I'm not really sure what you can say about a new Celer record that hasn't been said before? All the ones I've heard prove them to be masters of drifty ambient drone. The music takes you to special places and despite this being a popular thing to be doing right now they stand head and shoulders above the rest. It's really quite good. I listened to Brittle a couple of days ago at home and it was a thoroughly gorgeous way to spend an hour or so. In Escaping Lakes will do the same..... it will take you on an introspective ambient journey and leave you feeling well special at the end of it. Well special (again)! CD only on Slow Flow Records in nice foldy cardboard thing.
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Sound clips for In Escaping Lakes by Celer: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Slow Flow, WW1001, £9.09.
Celer is the sound, visual, literary, and artistic endeavor of the husband and wife duo of Will Long and Danielle Baquet-Long. Danielle is a teacher of special education and music therapy, a seasoned and published writer of poetry and prose, a painter, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist, also recording as Chubby Wolf. She has an extensive background in Gender Studies, Education, Basque History, Photography, and Tibetan Studies, as well as having lived in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the United States. Will also works in education, and is a published writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, with degrees from two universities in English and History, and with a background in Creative Writing, Philosophy, and Literature. He is also an instrumentalist, interested in finding a meeting place through music between the analog and digital world, through field recordings, custom software, arrangements, and concepts. He first began experimenting with sound at age 4, making 'unsynchronized tape loops' by recording fragments of pleasant tones from records and films onto audio cassettes, rewinding, recording again, and repeating the process until the tape was filled up. In Will and Dani's time together, they have produced numerous custom, handmade self-releases, sound for installations and art exhibitions, as well as creating works for independent labels in North America, Japan, and Europe. Their intent is producing works that reflect the nature of love, family, and their concerns and interests, through a relative and absolute symposium of expression. They currently reside on the coast of Southern California.
