Celer - Salvaged Violets

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5...according to our Brian on Thu 25 Nov, 2010.

Time to mong everyone's face off in the office. This is the Brian Dangerhorse update. I can do what the hell I like. Hahaha. I'm evil, i'm gonnna take over the world with my arsenal of ambient drone recordings. I will slay any rockist muso types who get in my way with, what Business Lady terms, "that Guantanamo Bay shit". Except this is the anti-Whitehouse (the band, that is!) Celer as you may, or may not know were fast becoming synonymous with the sort of gentle, heavenly tones & waves of lushness that, rather than bore your arse off, make your world a much more manageable place. I think looking at all the labels who've hosted their work, Infraction is their spiritual home. A busy office full of stricken harried spods is usually not the environment for Will & Danni's lush, unfurling tapestries but, somehow, it seems just right today. I really don't feel I can comment much further other than to say when you get this, kick off yer shoes, turn it up loud (I've just played the second CD - it's a stealthy one) and imagine yourself immersed in a Venusuvian sensory deprivation tank. When you eventually come round from your trip you can have a nice glass of wine & peruse the numerous pretty art cards within the luxury gatefold package. This is called civilisation. Welcome to it you neanderthals ;0]

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"In February of 2008, Dani and I recorded, mixed, and completed the music for 'Salvaged Violets'. The words came as the subject line of a short poem, sent to me over email, included with an unrelated question. During these weekdays, our working schedules were almost the opposite, but we spoke over email constantly. Until recently, I did not notice how similar this was to our beginnings, sending letters as we were on different sides of the country. With no conceptual idea in mind, and since we were apart for so much time during the weekdays, we decided to begin 'Salvaged Violets', and see what came of it. Every night when I returned home, before sleeping, I would spend time working on the music that Dani had worked on through the afternoon, and had left on the desk. Every afternoon, she would find a different version to work on that I had left, and this continued for some time. When together, we would sip our tea, laugh at silly jokes, cook, watch television, and so on. There was no need for longing while we were together. There was always laughing, pots and pans clanging, or a muttering television. In forming 'Salvaged Violets', we did not mix it in a particular arranged order. It was mixed simply by the order it was first played, compiling many miniature sections rolled into one. In this case, they were rolled into two. Nothing was discarded, nothing was rearranged. As the sound changed over time, the original form did not. When it was finally complete, we listened together, for the first time. I remember how familiar it seemed, yet I also felt that so much of it was unknown, and undefined. More than a year later, in September of 2009, I revisited the recordings for the first time since 2008. At this time, it was being mastered by our good friend Corey Fuller, so I was still listening to the original. Riding my bike through the endless suburban subdivisions, through the busy downtown streets, I listened repeatedly, for days, over and over. Something was familiar, but so much I was unable to recall, and yet I was able to relate. I returned home, put my bike against the door, and took my headphones off. There, in the still silence, I think I understood finally what it was about." Will Thomas Long, December 2009

998 copies. Stoughton mini-lp gatefold CD sleeve. 12 art prints and photographs by Peter Lograsso. Mastered by Corey Fuller.

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