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CELER - In Escaping Lakes

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: SlowFlow Records WW1001 Release Year: 2009 Note: first release on a new label from Japan; a fabulous one-tracker with melancholic drone-beauty from the archives of the sadly disbanded US duo Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.50 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info " 'In Escaping Lakes' is the sequel to 'Cursory Asperses', previously released on Slow Flow. Where 'Cursory Asperses' focused on the slow movement primarily of streams, and other field recordings, 'In Escaping Lakes' continues this pathway to expand into a deeper subject, of lakes and their surroundings. Inspired by a painting by Anthony Feyer, 'In Escaping Lakes' was made to demonstrate enclosure, depth, and closeness in still places. Will & Danielle: Piano, Strings, Gong, Tingshas, Voice, Electronics, Hydrophone, Flute." [label info] http://slowflowrec.web.fc2.com/index.html "A new Japanese label, Slow Flow, gets ready to be part of the already crowded field of ambient music, by choosing two non-Japanese musicians to open the release schedule. The first is by Celer. Only two weeks ago I Iearned that Danielle Baquet-Long died last year and that basically all works that are released these days under the name Celer are made by her and her husband Will Long. Apparently its quite an archive as there seems to be lots of things coming according to the myspace page. All of these works were completed before she died and now are being released. According to the press release "'In Escaping Lakes' is the sequel to 'Cursory Asperses', previously released on Slow Flow" - and a quick look at the website learns that there have been a couple of CDR releases before these two 'real' CDs (although the website is in need of an update). For their music Celer use piano, strings, gong, tingshas, voice, electronics, hydrophone, flute and while the cover mentions four different parts with some great titles ("Australis A Buoyant Object, That Rests And Moves In Such A Way When Recounting Futures, Don't Fail To Mention Me"), there is only one track on the CD, that lasts almost forty minutes (although there are clearly marks to make them into separate tracks). Its hard to believe that they used all these instruments - something I wondered about before. Its a beautiful release - once again. Very spacious music, with long sustaining sounds of (processed?) instruments. They glide majestically along eachother, and over the course of this work, it seems that is turning 'inside' towards itself. From nicely flowing at the start to a more moody ending. This is the first time I discover such as story like approach in their music (might of course be my problem). An excellent release." [FdW / Vital Weekly]