Track list:
1 日没 Nichibotsu
Release description:
‘日没 Nichibotsu’ was made at the same time as ‘Weak Ends’, for the August Japan tour with Christoph Heemann and Jim O’Rourke. ‘Weak Ends’ was performed in Tokyo, and ‘日没 Nichibotsu’ was performed in Kobe, with the cover image projected onto the wall for the duration of the performance. Since I never play the same piece twice for shows, ‘日没 Nichibotsu’ was unique to the show in Kobe.
Track list:
1 Bells&Bell&Bel&Be&B& (Celer remix)
2 Bells In A Yard (Yard remix)
3 Ringing In Our Ears (Yard remix)
4 Ringing In Our Ears (Yard Ambient Mix)
Release description:
Remixes from the early Celer album Belsslsssll.
Limited edition of 30 hand-made,hand-numbered copies made for Record Store Day April 20, 2013.
Packaged in Stumptown Printers 100% recycled paper Arigato Pak and 3 different photos grace the covers.
Track list:
1-1 Motions That Vary Due To Height
1-2 The Overhead Emptiness
1-3 Being Closer To The Sun
2 Fires That Light Up The Night
3-1 Strong, Exhilarating Effects
3-2 Yearly Delta
3-3 Autopilot
4-1 Weak Hillsides
4-2 Resignation Tendency
4-3 Hot Tower
4-4 Free Daydream
Release description:
Dear Jerry,
I’m somewhere around 20,000 feet, and I think I’m freezing to death. Please send blankets. We’re on the way to oversee a polar station in the middle of nowhere. It’s 9 hours there, and 9 hours back. On this giant plane, there’s only 6 of us. There’s somebody in this nose compartment with me, for Arctic topography. He’s constantly airsick from staring at the moving ground. As the medical officer, my job is mostly passing out airsick bags, and wearing 3 flight suits so I won’t freeze to death.
I’m looking forward to Thanksgiving dinner next week at home, and I’ll be happy to see you. Mother is running in tight circles at home getting ready for the occasion, and Daddy is fasting so he can make the most of the brief period of gluttony. I heard about the menu already, but I’ll let that be a surprise for you. It will be great to have a home-cooked meal again. I think we had frozen chicken for dinner last night.
It’s mid-day now, and all I can see ahead of us is endless flat ice. Thankfully the water system in the BOQ at Ladd is now fixed. For the last few weeks, we’ve all had to shower next door, and then run at high speed back to our building through the sub-zero temperatures. I’m seriously jealous of you in Guam. Sitting on the beach, playing gold, swimming in the ocean. Want to trade? Alaska is beautiful, if you want a change.
See you next week,
Bill
William A. Long, Jr., Fairbanks, November 15, 1960
Our flight to Tokyo left at 5pm, following the sunset to the west as we climbed north for 3 hours. The airport was filled with tourists on their way home, with boxes of mangoes and pineapples. It was mango day yesterday. Soon after we got to cruising altitude, the islands disappeared into endless ocean, and everyone seemed to fall asleep. The stewardess offering ice cream passed by unnoticed, and the passengers sank into their straw hats. The lights stay low, but I keep watching out the window, continually sucked into the sunset, and the distant mountains of clouds hanging over the ocean. Even Rie falls asleep, and the outside seems to gently disappear for all the sleeping passengers. The holiday is over, and we’re returning home.
When we reach Tokyo, it’s already dark, and the farm fields of Narita are dark blue and foggy in the evening mist, the small yellow lights of the houses sitting still under the half-hidden new moon edging over the horizon. Tomorrow I’ll develop our film, and we’ll start taking pictures again. There are always those leftover shots after a trip, of the just-after-returning from a trip photos. They’re of your home, or people and places you see everyday. But maybe in the end, these are the most genuine from the entire roll.
Will Long, Tokyo, 2013
Climbing Formation is packaged in a matte-coated, full color digipak, pressed on a glass-mastered CD in an edition of 500 copies.
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Release description:
‘Radish’ was created as a daydream. Each track was made of different layers of instruments, field recordings, television, and discarded objects. The tracks were mixed without specific structure, and instead in an almost blind and directionless form, to later be processed together for a flowing, pure and imaginative sequence of memories.
“A daydream is an evasion.” – Thomas Merton
Track list:
Side A
1 Merges Of Hysterical Exhilaration
Side B
2 Complete Possession Of Full Temerity
Release description:
Two prolific artists of the ambient world, Will Long (Celer) and Takahiro Yorifuji (Hakobune) join forces on this 40 minute, two track work entitled Vain Shapes and Intricate Parapets. A moment frozen in time. Music for deep thought, reflection and longing.
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Release description:
In the summer we met at the halfway point station between our homes, somewhere still new to me. I had to check the route as I was still unfamiliar with the city, but finding undiscovered experiences inside each place. Through the shop-lined streets and the smoke from bars, we found a small shrine atop a tiny hill surrounded by trees. A highway was wrapped around the bottom of one side, and a steel bridge for the bullet trains reaching over the treetops on the other. A few people were visiting the shrine, but they soon disappeared, letting the silence enter the sanctuary with the soft afternoon breeze. Making our way down the hill beside the bridge, down the river-long stone steps leading to the water’s edge, people ran in the summer air, their voices echoing throughout and across the riverbanks. We finally settled on a spot on the stone stairway, with riverside bushes to our backs, the bridge to our left, and the sunset to the west over and down the river. We brought out our picnic dinner, the plastic containers I had bought just the day before, and picnicked on the shores of the river. Under the orange sunset, cameras on the ground, this memory remaining for that place too, not just us. It stays there in the wind, in the green of the trees, and the swirls of the river, just as it does in our hearts and minds. These places may seem ordinary, but with them we share all experiences.
我々はある夏の日、それぞれの家の中間地点の駅で会った。それは、私にとってはなじみの無い場所だった。私はまだこの街に慣れていなかったので、道順を調べなければならなかったが、それはそれぞれの場所の中にある、未知の体験を見つけることでもあった。店が立ち並ぶストリートや、煙の立ちこめるバーを通り過ぎながら、我々は丘の上に立つ、木々に囲まれた小さな神社を見つけた。片側の下のほうは高速道路で囲まれ、反対側には新幹線が走る鉄橋が木の梢の上に見えた。その神社には何人かの人がいたが、すぐにどこかえ行ってしまった。そして、午後のやわらかな風とともに、その聖域に静かな静寂がやってきた。丘を降りて橋のそばを歩いていくと、川沿いに続く堤防の石段では、水際で夏の空気の中へと駆け込む人々の声が堤防全体に響き渡っていた。我々はやっとのことで、石の階段のところに落ち着ける場所を見つけた。背後には草むらがあって、左手には橋が、向こう岸には、川下へと沈んでいく西日が見えた。我々は準備してきたピクニック・ディナー ー私が前日に買ったばかりのプラスチックの入れ物に入ったものー を取り出して、川岸でピクニックをした。オレンジ色の夕日の下、地面に置かれたカメラ。この記憶は我々だけのためでではなく、あの場所のためにもまた、遺される。風の中に、木々の緑の中に、川の渦の中にとどまる。我々の心の中にとどまるのと同じように。このような場所はありふれたものに見えるかもしれない、でも、我々はこれらの場所によってすべての経験を分かち合う。
Track list:
Side A
1 Resting On Intensity
Side B
2 Swelling That Saves Me From It
Release description:
Part 5/5 of black vinyl series.
Track list:
1 Zigzag
Release description:
Several years ago while living in the United States, I became interested in the minimalist music of the 1960′s and 1970′s, and new wave of the early 1980′s, with the steady pulses, the constant harmonies, and endless continuity. The music had a strong persistence, and while the listener can drift away from following it consciously, the rhythm stays grounded. In it there is something human, like a heartbeat.
At the time I had the idea to use this inspiration with my own music, giving the music a tempo, and a new pathway in a forward direction. I created Zigzag, and agreed to release the album through Spekk, but after several years, the project was delayed, and I went on to other projects, and the initial inspiration and concept disappeared.
In the summer of 2013, I found out that my wife and I would have our first child. Around this time, plans began to come together for the release of Zigzag. After missing the first few doctor’s appointments, I was finally able to attend, and for the first time heard the baby’s heartbeat. It seemed like such a fateful connection between the baby and the music. When new life begins, everything points toward the future.
– Will Long, 2014
Track list:
Side A
1 Opening Titles (Before Morning)
2 Bitter Light and Anticipating a Day Heat (The Isolated)
3 The Spilling; Romantic Goodbye (The Lovers)
4 Meticulous and Exact Methods of an Exhausted Dreamer (A Rooftop Hour)
5 Binoculars, a Telephone, and Fear (The Note)
Side B
6 Intermission (Afternoon, Don’t End)
7 Guiding Lights (Split-screen Comparison)
8 Bass Punctures (The Pressure Urge)
9 Lofty Swells (An Impending Advance)
10 Impossible Escape (The Amicable Understanding)
11 Finale (After Midnight)
Release description:
A few years ago I was commissioned by a film company in California to create a musical score for a film inspired by the Hitchcock 1954 film Rear Window, but with a more surrealist, two-sided viewer plot. As filming hadn’t begun, I was given the screenplay and timeline, and asked to make specific music that might fit with the themes in those pages, which also included an overture, intermission, and exit music. I recorded the music at home and in a studio provided by the film company in Silverlake, California, and finished a week before the first draft deadline was to be submitted. Surprisingly, before I even delivered any of the music, I was informed that the entire project was cancelled. Several years later, the score for the film of the same title is finally seeing the light of day. It is available on vinyl in an edition of 300 copies by the label Humming Conch from Berlin, with cover art by Peter Lograsso.
– Will Long, 2013