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karu:35, CD (digipak)
11 audio tracks, (p) 2014
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Release date: 29/12/2014
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Dreams Wide Awake"Hill towns and empty mountains pass by, but the smoothness of the train blurs the view, and it's easier than ever to fall asleep in the low morning sunlight coming in through the train's windows", writes Will Long, the artist behind the Celer moniker, in his liner notes to Sky Limits, one of his most fulfilling records to date. First created as a duo project in 2005, Celer has been US-born musician Will Long's solo vehicle since 2009. Through the years and thanks to an astounding rate of production, Celer has become a reference in the field of ambient electronic music. The care Long puts in his ethereal albums and his flawless musical intuition have earned him the critics'praise and invites to release material on key labels such as Spekk, Glacial Movements, Humming Conch, Experimedia, and/OAR, and now Baskaru. Sky Limits consists in a series of daydreaming-prone, strings-laden ambient tracks interspersed with field recordings of daily life in Tokyo and Kyoto. This album is a reflection on the evanescent nature of memories, dreams, and reality. In addition to Celer, his main project, Will Long plays in Oh, Yoko (with Miko) and Hollywood Dream Trip (with Christoph Heemann). He also runs the Two Acorns label. Sky Limits is available on LP from Two Acorns and on CD from Baskaru. |
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Circle routes |
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09:11 |
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Making tea over a rocket launch broadcast |
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01:16 |
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In plum and magenta |
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03:43 |
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On the Shinkansen leaving Kyoto |
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00:30 |
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Tangent lines |
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05:07 |
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Back in Kawaramachi, Kyoto |
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01:15 |
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Equal to moments of completion |
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10:06 |
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A morning |
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00:43 |
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Wishes to prolong |
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06:00 |
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An evening |
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00:40 |
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Attempts to make time pass differently |
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10:36 |
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Trailer
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The beautiful atmospheres to which we are used to listen from Celer have a hint of nostalgia and an epic character: a trip to a remote place, expected and charming.
LOOP, March 2015
These string-laden daydream-scapes induce a strangely compelling tension–in parts so remote and hermetic, in others so tremulous and intimate, the whole imbued with a sense of arcane seductivity.
IGLOO MAGAZINE, March 2015
These fragments contain moments of immeasurable greatness, environmental rumblings contained in relatively brief moments which however are inexhaustible.
HAWAI, March 2015
Subtle, mellow, nice.
WHISPERIN AND HOLLERIN, February 2015
An artful exercise in the kind of subliminal sleight-of-hand at which Celer excels.
TEXTURA, January 2015
An absolute highlight.
BLACK MAGAZIN, January 2015
A great metaphor of life on a grander scale.
BRAINWASHED, January 2015
Excellent album with heavyweight of elaboration, distance and tactfulness.
FELTHAT, January 2015
Celer's music isn't just beautiful. It's also a reflection on life's transitory state.
A CLOSER LISTEN, January 2015
This is Celer the way we like it.
VITAL WEEKLY, January 2015
A concept that never fails to impress.
BLACK AUDIO, January 2015
A truly lovely album.
STATIONARY TRAVELS, December 2014
One of Celer's best works to date.
HEAR FEEL, November 2014
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