As a way to bring more out of print and unpublished albums into physical existence, ‘Endes’ will restart the Celer self-released format of publication, but in a new style and format. Starting now, pre-orders for ‘Endes’ will begin in a special reserved-copy only form. It will be a CD edition in a simple, affordable, and fully-pressed jacket sleeve, intended to be the beginning of what I hope will be a long series of future publications.

What does ‘reserve only’ mean? Reserve only means that the CD will be made available for pre-order and sale only through the Celer Bandcamp page, and it will be available only in an edition of 300 copies. The edition will not be available in stores (unless there are remaining copies after printing). Once the edition is gone, another unpublished (on CD) or out of print release will be next in line.

By ordering a reserved copy, you will have the opportunity to directly support the publishing of the release, as it is necessary to help with the funding of the project. Each CD will be specially numbered, and all sales will contribute to funding of the release in particular, and of future releases in the Celer series.

Since only 300 copies will be available, and for pre-order only, each week sales will be calculated, and the remaining number of copies will be listed below, displaying the number of copies that remain available.

Thank you for your support!

Release date: 1/1/2012

Buy here: http://celer.bandcamp.com/album/endes

Remaining copies: 290/300

Though not as prolific as Celer, her project of many years with husband Will Long, Danielle Baquet-Long’s solo recordings as Chubby Wolf are numerous even if they are outnumbered by those from her shared endeavor. The most recent collection of her recordings under that name, titled Turkey Decoy, recently came out from Digitalis, making the album one of the most formal releases of her work since she passed away in 2009. It’s a stirring set of songs, together composing a cycle of ambient soundscapes that move and gently shift around one another across layers that feel like the intersection of some odd tandem chant, like the call and response of daemons; hierophants conducting souls hither and yon. That sense of mysticism contrasts beautifully with individual track titles which, like the name of the album itself, are evocative and textural; “Rattling Mandibles” conjures up a human jaw vibrating like a hummingbird, singing a gentle, eleven minute drone, while “If There’s an Elephant in the Room, Introduce It” is a haloed Ganesh emanating the same. The more explicit or whimsical titles, like “Short Dick” and “Scalloped Toes” compose a more nebulous realm of idiosyncrasy that seems too intimate to scrutinize, but they’re nonetheless endearing, if not more so for that reason. Turkey Decoy is sublime.

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The story of Celer is probably well-known by now, certainly if you have been reading these pages before: in a relatively short time span the duo of Will Long and Danielle Baquet-Long created a whole bunch of releases as Celer, all dealing, more or less, with what we can roughly ‘drone’ and ‘atmospheric’ music. Baquet-Long died suddenly in 2009 and it was decided by Long that no more music was to be released as Celer. Anything that comes out now as Celer is either old and unreleased and re-issues of older work, such as this release, which was originally a self-released CDR (thus they gain a status like Maeror Tri, who early 90s cassettes found their way on CD and CDR by now). What can we say about this music that we haven’t said before? Nothing much I guess, but that doesn’t mean I say anything about the quality of the music. Apparently Celer use a variety of instruments, although none are specified here (but it was on other releases) but these are transformed into abstract glacier like masses of sound, slowly moving and lowly humming, just as pretty much anything else I heard from Celer. Its hard to say if and what the differences are between this particular releases and the others I heard. Surely they are there but appear to be minor. When listening to this CD I was thinking about all of this. Surely there are people who like music to progress, slow, quick but inevitably moving to something else and there are people (in both cases people are consumers, not musicians themselves) who like things to remain the same, no matter how many releases an artist does, and this sometimes applies to musicians who release a lot, such as Fear Falls Burning, Francisco Lopez, Merzbow or Machinefabriek (to mention a few): all with a large dedicated group of fans and Celer has joined their ranks. Be it that no more new music will appear, with their back catalogue (which is indeed vast) filled with obscurities. They surely can see some interesting, re-mastered titles in the future. Me, I belong, perhaps more to the first group of consumers, those who like some things to change every now and then. That said, I thought ‘Sunlir’ was a pretty fine nocturnal listening thing. (FdW)

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