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Limited CD on Low Point Records. Much lovelyness! |
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CD |
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Ambient |
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Low Point |
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£6.99 |
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Based on 1 review(s).
...according to our Brian on 21 August 2009.
Right here at the bottom, almost as a footnote, is a last minute arrival from Low Point records who've the strange privilege of releasing one of the first posthumous Celer releases after the incredibly sad passing of Dani Baquet-Long. A lot of loving words have been written & exchanged about this very much in love couple who just happened to produce some of the most tender, evocative, spiritual and otherworldly ambient & drone music so far this Century, leaving a vast catalogue of pretty essential releases in their wake. 'Brittle' can be added to the ranks, there's not many more adjectives I can muster, I'm just constantly bowled over by the spectral, ethereal majesty of their particularly tactile, warm & rich sound art, an aural tapestry, multi hued & textured tones, overlapping in your mind, zen-like & ever powerful. I hope Will heals in time & starts to produce music again, but I imagine even he'd admit, nothing can quite touch this beauty.....
Sound clips for Brittle by Celer (CD, Low Point, LP028, £6.99)
What their label says...
Celer is
the artistic endeavour of the husband and wife duo Will Long and
Danielle Baquet-Long. Danielle was a teacher of special education and
music therapy, a published writer of poetry and prose, a painter,
multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. She had 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. She passed away on July 8, 2009 of heart failure at the
age of 26. Since forming in 2006, Celer’s intent was
to produce works that reflect the sincere nature and importance of
love, the fragility of life, and the importance of togetherness,
through a relative and absolute symposium of expression.
This
is particularly apparent on ‘Brittle’, an album produced with the aim
of demonstrating a feeling of continuation through what sometimes seems
like a delicate existence, a philosophy which takes on a deeper
resonance in light of these recent, tragic events.
Musically,
all of the sounds contained on ‘Brittle’ were created by piano, violin,
cello, tingsha bells, harpsichord, and whistle. There are also field
recordings from the inside of a room, with the windows open, but
containing largely only room noise. The resulting recordings were then
structured into 19 different tracks, which were then restructured into
one single forming track of 74 minutes. All of the different pieces
were merged together, to blur interruption and to allow the possibility
of unfocused repetition.
The album is
arranged to move in a specific way, not simply section by section, but
by subtle movements that swell and sway calmly. Instead of creating an
environment to sink into, Celer hope that the piece will instead act as
a blanket, moving with the listener through gentle sways, shifting
tones and small spaces of silence that are as unpredictable as thought.
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