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Track list:

Side A
1 Distant Misgivings

Side B
2 The Potential of the Unnecessary

Release description:
Launched in 2005, Celer is a project of Will Long, an American musician, educator, writer and photographer, living in Japan, who also curates the Two Acorns label. Initially a duo based in California with Danielle Baquet, Celer has continued as a solo project since 2009 and has released music on numerous esteemed labels such as Baskaru, Spekk, and/OAR, Infraction, Streamline and many more. In addition, Will has collaborated on projects with Miko, Hakobune, Machinefabriek, Jan and Romke Kleefstra, Matthieu Ruhlmann, Yui Onodera and Christoph Heemann.

A decade into his recording career, Celer arrives at the shores of the Los Angeles based label I, Absentee, for the remarkable new full-length, “Jima.” The album contains two pieces, each occupying an entire LP side, on one side plunging into the depths of the conscience, and the contrasting flip side a blissful crescendo. It stands as a jewel in the prolific career of Celer, showcasing an artist at the height of his craft. Meticulously assembled and packaged at the highest quality possible by both artist and label, it is presented as a meditation on existence and melancholy.

“Jima” arrives at I, Absentee as a limited edition LP, with the first 100 units on sea blue vinyl and the remaining 200 on milky clear vinyl. Limited edition of 300 copies worldwide.

Track list:
1 Circle Routes
2 (12.5.12) Making tea over a rocket launch broadcast
3 In plum and magenta
4 (12.21.12) On the Shinkansen leaving Kyoto
5 Tangent lines
6 (12.20.12) Back in Kawaramachi, Kyoto
7 Equal to moments of completion
8 (4.8.13) A morning
9 Wishes to prolong
10 (4.8.13) An evening
11 Attempts to make time pass differently

Release description:
“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.

 

Track list:
Side A
1 Circle Routes
2 (12.5.12) Making tea over a rocket launch broadcast
3 In plum and magenta
4 (12.21.12) On the Shinkansen leaving Kyoto
5 Tangent lines
6 (12.20.12) Back in Kawaramachi, Kyoto

Side B
7 Equal to moments of completion
8 (4.8.13) A morning
9 Wishes to prolong
10 (4.8.13) An evening
11 Attempts to make time pass differently

Release description:
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. We’re sleeping, or staring out at the cities and landscapes; it’s easy to imagine the sound, and connect it with these events. There’s a contrast and connection between this reality and imagination. They’re separate, but happening simultaneously. On a walk through the crowded streets of Kyoto, or a half-asleep morning, what was it like? Later, what do you remember?

During a walk home one evening, I stopped on top of the street with a view over the train tracks, passed the intersection across from Mini Stop and the bakery, and went up the hill into the our neighborhood. There’s a particular sound when you step on the entrance grate by the doorway, and when opening the mailbox. Someday, I won’t be in these same places again, and for now, this is what they sound like. Even these minor moments are important when you look back on the memory, and then look out from this overlook, seeing the city lights blinking in the distance.

Sky Limits is available as a 12″ black vinyl LP with full color, uncoated board sleeve, black paper inner sleeve, postcard, and download card. Edition of 300.

 

Track list:
1 Untitled
2 Untitled

Release description:
Packaged in a handmade, hand-painted red cardboard sleeve. Available only with the purchase of the first 200 copies Zigzag directly from the label.

Track list:
Disc 1
1 1_9
2 2_2
3 3_1
4 4_1
5 5_8
6 6_4
7 7_12
8 8_10
9 9_7
10 10_6

Disc 2
1 1_7
2 2_9
3 3_17
4 4_10
5 5_6
6 6_1
7 7_4
8 8_5
9 9_2

Release description:
Packaged in hand-painted foldout cardboard cover.

Track list:
Disc 1
1 Slowly Wire Circles In The Drinking Smiles, Weaving Copper Plants
2 Sheets Slipping With Patient Patios; The Sun Crawling Under The Beds

Disc 2
3 Glowing Blast Tanks, Pinpoint Scans; Closing Signals
4 Outlines Of A Picture Frame, Blackmailed Globes Of Deference

Disc 3
5 Droops Thet Whirl, Cry, Hear, And Stop

Disc 4
6 Sprume Oil Tankers, Skimming Their Polling Searings
7 Hearing……….. Knocking On White Doors, Leaving With Ping Pongs

Release description:
Packaged in two hand-made hand-painted cardboard pyramids with two inserts.

Track list:
Disc 1
1 La Oroya’s Cantankerous Bells
2 Bereft Oversight
3 Slack Tree Diagrams
4 Carpel Tunnels Of Love
5 The Ex Hypthesi Dreams Of Populous Clouds
6 Spring Shields
7 Ceramic Foam Party
8 Fast Forwarding Sleep
9 Sputtering Lungs / End Organ

Release description:
Comes in a transparent plastic sleeve with handmade artwork and several inserts. Limited to 100 copies.

Track list:
Disc 1
1 La Oroya’s Cantankerous Bells
2 Bereft Oversight
3 Slack Tree Diagrams
4 Carpel Tunnels Of Love
5 The Ex Hypthesi Dreams Of Populous Clouds
6 Spring Shields
7 Chernobyl Hearts And Multiple Throats
8 (H)yoōˈBristik
9 Ceramic Foam Party

Disc 2
10 Fast Forwarding Sleep
11 Sputtering Lungs / End Organ

Release description:
Packaged in a handmade painted die-cut cover stock case, with poetic and photographic inserts.

Track list:
1 Dilue

Release description:
The disc is contained inside a plain, stark die-cut cover stock case, housed inside a hand-made jigsaw puzzle box, including poetic inserts. Each puzzle included is unique, reflecting the stream of sound.