Will Thomas Long - Sequoia (Basic Sounds, 2010)

1 Sequoia

After a lengthy period of silence in music production, American producer Will Thomas Long comes out with Sequoia, a twenty-two minute track dedicated to the memory of his wife Danielle Baquet-Long, who passed away last year at the young age of twenty-six. Together they were known for their prolific collaborative work as Celer and have appeared internationally on such labels as Infraction, and/OAR, Dragon’s Eye, Home Normal, Spekk, Yard Rec., and Smallfish.

Will’s latest work Sequoia is inspired by an illustration of a California Redwood, one of the tallest trees in the world. Perhaps it is the scale of this gigantic pine that reflects how small and fragile we are in comparison. Sequoia is a deeply dense and emotional journey that delicately immerses you within his subtle, gentle low-end tones and slow pulses. As his only long-form work to be published since 2009, it’s an honour to have such a moving piece as our second release.
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Celer - Compositions For Cassette (Digitalis, 2009)

A1 Untitled 7:51
A2 Untitled 1:43
A3 Untitled 9:00
A4 Untitled 2:50
A5 Untitled 8:33
A6 Untitled 2:51
B1 Untitled 1:02
B2 Untitled 4:15
B3 Untitled 4:51
B4 Untitled 7:02
B5 Untitled 5:27
B6 Untitled 8:25

Huntington beach's husband/wife duo celer lull you into an enchanting, yet slightly uncomfortable stasis with over an hour full of solemn piano-based drones. "compositions for cassette" is distilled in glass and sent down a river of molasses. what danielle baquet-long and will long do is set this decaying, enchanting journey on it's course. they built the multiple cassette loops used to create this minimal symphony, this ode to american pianists of the 1920s.

"Compositions for cassette" is a funeral march of ghosts through alien fog, lost in a world that no longer exists for their original beings. in the end, it's only the whispers in the air that remain, a near silent elegy for notes and nooses left behind. stunning.
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Celer - I Love You So Much I Can't Even Title This (The Light That Never Goes Out Went Out) (Celer, 2008)

1 Isotope Shortage 10:18
2 The Delay Of Intolerance 10:08
3 Ruined Repairs 40:11

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Celer - Fountain Glider (Students of Decay, 2009)

1 Runway Wind / Leftover Thunderhead / Drift-off / Radio Haze / Shattered Beauty / Collide-oscope / Contacting Mirrors / Splendor Floor / A Footrest At 8,000 Feet / Visible Eyehole / Open Springs At First / In Time, Even / Wah / A Train Of Chemtrails / Global Dimming / Lapping Circulations / Sailplane / Love-lift / Spinning Séance / Manmade Wings / Carry Those Chords In Your Stomach / Compensatory Listening 48:28

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Celer - Poulaine (Students of Decay, 2009)

1 Misinterpreted Renaissance / Ploughs Of The Double-Sided / Floating Cells / Do Me That Love / Empty Buckets Over The Sky / Wonder If It Was Really Worth It To Wonder / Fleshy Trumpets / Fifth With White / Fourth With Red / Naked As Art / The Burden Of Mind / Reachlessness / So Much They Cannot Know 44:05

Created by commission for the University of California at Irvine as a sound companion for an exhibition of 13 different 14th Century manuscripts. The original pieces existed as 13 different parts for each individual piece of art.

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Celer - Tropical (Mystery Sea, 2008)

1 Normal Sadness (The Softness Of The Sea Hibiscus) (13:29)
2 Stipulated Morning Beside The Wreckage (First Sight) (6:46)
3 The Second In A Sequence Of Glances And Introductions (6:58)
4 Heart Shapes And Requiems At The Height Of LamLam (6:55)
5 Empty Hum (An Open, Empty Ocean) (18:03)

"With little more than uneasy tension, a short existence in a humid paradise left our
untrained ears listening to the falling-apart.
The surrounding pink sand beaches, dancing palms, on the edge of
decayed reefs, leading us, swimming in stillness, and lying on the tip of the trench.
We’re left inside sweating jungles, dripping.

Pouring out a summer spent in mint swims, everything that happened left the rush
nowhere to fall. Drives through one-lane mountain roads, plane skeletons tattered
remains in the hidden hills, all inactive and silent; there is little remembered. With
unaware farewells, we’d rather remember the slow-motion dances under the soft glow
of paper lanterns, the tracers from lightning bugs drifting into the endless blackness
of the hidden inland.

The ending, with an arduous voyage home, left signs in the churning water,
but they disappeared into the deep blue depth, as the island fell with the sunset.
The naval ship hum, dooming any hope of silence, left only the moonlit decks
to mimic the loss. Unexposed film of the lost loves that we didn’t have time to fall for,
still and lifeless, swaying with diaphoresis in the humid wind."

- Celer, August 2008

CELER is a fast growing in reputation entity, and also the main artistic expression of lovely couple of Will Thomas Long & Danielle Baquet-Long, currently based on the coast of Southern California... Both have jobs in the educational domain, are versed into literature, and have common interests in Poetry, Painting, Photography, History & Philosophy...
CELER carries out its ceaseless thirst for beauty & emotion through sound, merging techniques of analog and digital world via the use of field recordings, custom software, real instruments, effects + manipulation, and concepts...
Since inception, CELER has been extremely prolific and generous, overflowing the independent market with numerous hand-made releases, soundtracks for installations & art exhibitions, & works for various labels across North America, Japan & Europe...
As a result of their sheer passion, they didn't have to wait that long before seeing unfurling waves of praise... as an example, their collab with Mathieu Ruhlmann, "Mesoscaphe" is now permanently archived in Vancouver's Maritime Museum...

As symbolic celebration of reaching its 50th release, MS is proud to serve as a showcase for their highly personal album "Tropical"

"Tropical" is all muggy heat,
an intimate pulse swelling,
raising from the depths, the scars of past...
The sound of an invisible river
reaching out and afar,
while palm trees cry some golden tears...
The sound of a slow breeze
making twigs dance...
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"Tropical" touches you, reads you,
leaves you forlorn and naked,
rough, unpolished as lava rocks
close to burst into pieces, flakes of pure wonder...
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The torn landscape is aglow,
eyes are wild, and truth is in the air...
And a single flower crystallizes all hope,
hands open, all sand fleeing...
A notion of eternity,
or just perennial Father's traces...
Mystery Sea

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