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Track list:
1 Anticline Rests; Inertia Brace Yourself
2 Collections Of Fogs And Ladling Clarities
3 Who Feels Like Me, Who Wants Like Me, Who Doubts Any Good Will Come Of This
4 How Dear This Ear Of Reason, Beneath The Backlit Sun

Release description:
“Opening in medias res with field recordings that slowly shift into a haze of hovering tones, Will and Dani’s loop- based constructions flicker and unfurl at an unhurried pace, ebbing into one another, decaying into resonant silence. Indeed, “Panoramic Dreams…” proves to be an apt title for this collection, as each track enacts a sort of bleary-eyed navigation of an imagined landscape. There is a profound sense of melancholy in these recordings, but also a subjunctive quality that is hard to ignore- a meditation on possibility, on what might come to pass. Like the best Celer recordings, the four tracks collected here evoke in this listener a sense oflonging and nostalgia, the object of which remains opaque and elusive, but ultimately no less affecting.” – Basses Frequences

Track list:
Side A
1 Retreading Obsessions

Side B
1 The Acceptance Of A Paralyzed Infinity

Release description:
Companion release to “Panoramic Dreams…”, this 10″ features two exclusive tracks recorded/edited/mastered as the same time. The mood is a bit darker though. – Basses Frquences

Track list:
1. The Die That’s Caste

Release description:
‘The Die That’s Caste’ is packaged in a mini DVD/half size case, 3″cdr white printable, numbered edition, limited to 100 copies, with cover photography taken by Ana Zarco in Cramond, Scotland, in August 2010. Layout and audio mastering by m.a.tolosa.

Track list:
1 Pockets Of Wheat Parts I – VII

Release description:
Soundscaping Records are very pleased to invite Celer for the label’s second release, Pockets of Wheat, a most special album to us.

The album was recorded during a three day journey driving across the US from California to Mississippi, while the musician couple spent their days at a small hotel in Northern Texas. During these three days, they realized the concept of ‘Pockets of Wheat/Exteriors’, created illustrations for their intent of the music and penned down a library of notes and structures to use. Hence, made many field recordings and string recordings with equipment brought along, while other piano pieces were recorded later on an old, unused family piano.

From their room at the back of the hotel, they saw endless stretches of wheat fields. With open windows, the couple noticed the constant sound of the wheat blowing from the wind, an almost gentle, yet persistent, crackling and fuzz, but also changed constantly. Creating music in their original form, drawing on feelings of togetherness, intimacy, and the expansiveness surrounding them, with the ever-changing landscape, the concept of ‘Pockets of Wheat/Exteriors’ was perceived. With associations to the ghost of Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows, in entirety founded in nature, perceptions arose through constant interpretation of the sounds of nature; aggression, subtlety, intimacy, and distance.

Roughly five hours of recordings of cello, violin, piano, bells, crickets, and wind were then applied the idea of an ‘always changing but always the same’ idea to it. Splicing the recordings to about hundred 5-10 second tape loops, the loops were then played back from laptops and repeated in arbitrarily selected order by the two musicians without predetermined order. As such, the movements of the wheat in the fields by the winds were mimicked: always similar, but constantly changing.

The enclosed recording contains 7 movements, though they are strung together not to break the continuity. The several layers found within the recording are not always discernible, but are still there, just more subtle, as is the case with details in nature. Nature’s presence is also an imperative, though not the sole inspiration, but in the end the music of Celer in Pockets of Wheat expresses purely their feelings, identity and the atmosphere surrounding these moments, and in keeping with a continuous recording, captures the essence of what is heard in our daily lives, essentially one singular thing: sound.

Track list:
1 Floating Parasomnia
2 The Enlightened Scapegrace
3 Obtuse Sensibility

Release description:
“Dedicated to the anonymous & unknown.”

Originally self-published as a very limited triple 3″ CDR release in May, 2009, Celer’s Levitation And Breaking Points is now available again on CD – this time limited to 300 copies. Surely one of Celer’s most subtly beautiful and uplifting albums out of an already beautiful, highly prolific and much celebrated discography of work. Especially magical to listen to in the early evening as the sunlight fades below the horizon… a balm for the soul.

Photography and cover design by Dale Lloyd.

Track list:
1 Spelunking The Arteries Of Our Ancestors
2 The Look That Falls Upon Us Extends As If A Landform
3 Igenous Matters Most
4 Vitiating The Incline
5 How Long To Hold Up A Breathless Face
6 Awake For A Wake, Dead But For A Life
7 Lithospheric Plates Are Cleanly Forgotten
8 Espy The Horizon, Miss The Lost Road
9 Whimsical At The Cretaceous Extinction
10 I Ate Socialist Meals In The Company Mess Hall

Release description:
2011 Remastered CD reissue on Con-v.

Track list:
1 Hatta / Gliding In The Absolute / Circular Square, Exhaust, Anti-American Protest / A Less Representation Of Myself / Masjid Istiqlal / Breathing Effects, And A Lack Of / Mosquito / Feigned Ignorance And Dissimulation / Ultraclimax / The Romance Of Travel / As Ever

Track list:
1. Emotion

Release description:
‘Emotion’ was created specifically for the January Japan tour of Celer and Illuha. The CDR version was made in an edition of 10 copies, including a gold CDR, a hand-painted smoky blue and orange thin jewel case, and a wraparound original tape loop, with the album info written in gold.