This Random Celer Thread

noby · Post by **noby** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:09 am

Anyone here familiar with this duo?

Celer is/was a collaboration between husband and wife Danielle Baquet-Long and Will Long. They produced a ton of experimental minimalistic ambient music from around 2005 to 2009 (over 60 releases listed on discogs). The project was closed by Will in 2009 after Danielle had died of congenital heart failure.

Their music is something I've never heard anywhere else. There is just something so very sublime and deeply affecting about it. Their album Capri is one of my all time favorite albums.

Just thought some people might enjoy their work.

Xtal · Post by **Xtal** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 3:40 pm

I've had Discourses Of The Withered for awhile now, pretty great.

I'm really enjoying what you posted. Going to check out that album

noby · Post by **noby** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 3:58 pm

Xtal wrote:I've had Discourses Of The Withered for awhile now, pretty great.

I'm really enjoying what you posted. Going to check out that album

Discourses Of The Whithered is one of their best albums.

Capri > Close Proximity And The Unhindered Care-All > Discourses Of The Whithered, my three favorites.

Other great albums are:

Continents
I Love You So Much I Can't Even Title This (The Light That Never Goes Out Went Out)
Breeze Of Roses
Poulaine

SampleScience · Post by **SampleScience** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 4:33 pm

My friend & co-host Ibrahim Khider did an interview with them:

http://www.feedbackmonitor.com/?q=node/19

They are very good, I own several of their releases & they really have a unique sound.

noby · Post by **noby** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 4:34 pm

SampleScience wrote:They are very good, I own several of their releases & they really have a unique sound.

You...you, you actually own physical copies of their works? Wow, I'm jelly as fuck...

SampleScience · Post by **SampleScience** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 5:24 pm

noby wrote:
SampleScience wrote:They are very good, I own several of their releases & they really have a unique sound.
You...you, you actually own physical copies of their works? Wow, I'm jelly as fuck...

I have their release on Dragon's Eye Recordings called "Dying Star" on CD & a nice vynil from basses frequences called "Weavings of a Rapid Disenchangtment". I will receive more in my mailbox soon!!!

SampleScience · Post by **SampleScience** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 5:27 pm

Dani Bauqet-Long (who died at 26) was making music the Chubby Wolf moniker. There's a release on Dragon's Eye Recordings of Chubby Wolf, & I think there's a myspace.

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 7:44 pm

Wow. I was just telling a friend about them yesterday. Hadn't thought about them in a while.

Spenner · Post by **Spenner** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 2:02 am

I actually ordered Engaged Touches the other day... sounds very awesome, a bit different than stuff like Dying Star or Capri... I'd love to dive into their whole discog, I have so little of it compared to how much there is. Beautiful ambient and drone. I'd like to get more physicals if I can as well...

hexagon son · Post by **hexagon son** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:35 pm

I was going to see Will in Tokyo earlier this year, but didn't bother. Celer are/were my fave duo, even more so than BoC.

adelinyenmah · Post by **adelinyenmah** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:38 am

So happy to see some love for Celer on here. Their music is easily my favorite of everything that I have ever listened to. They reach somewhere no other artist dares or has the ability to go. Simpy incredible. I have been in touch with Will and recently got the new Ever, Irreplaceable Beauty release on vinyl. I have every LP they have ever put out - I am the biggest Celer fanboy you could ever meet.

Everyone should definitely check out the new stuff Will has been doing (both by himself and under the Celer moniker) - the new CD Menggayakan is outstanding. Can't wait for the new string of releases set to come out in the next year.

adelinyenmah · Post by **adelinyenmah** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:39 am

hexagon son wrote:I was going to see Will in Tokyo earlier this year, but didn't bother. Celer are/were my fave duo, even more so than BoC.

Man how did you miss that?

adelinyenmah · Post by **adelinyenmah** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:42 am

Spenner wrote:I actually ordered Engaged Touches the other day... sounds very awesome, a bit different than stuff like Dying Star or Capri... I'd love to dive into their whole discog, I have so little of it compared to how much there is. Beautiful ambient and drone. I'd like to get more physicals if I can as well...

Definitely check out Discourses of the Withered, Vestiges of an Inherent Melancholy, Panoramic Dreams Bathed in Seldomness, The Everything and the Nothing, Tropical, Close Proximity and the Unhindered Care-All, Dearest Ices, ah fuck it they're all really good. Those are some of my favorites though.

Spenner · Post by **Spenner** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:09 am

I only have Panoramic Dreams from that list, which is amazing, I'll definitely find and acquire the rest =]

hexagon son · Post by **hexagon son** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 2:13 pm

adelinyenmah wrote:
hexagon son wrote:I was going to see Will in Tokyo earlier this year, but didn't bother. Celer are/were my fave duo, even more so than BoC.
Man how did you miss that?

Depression.

adelinyenmah · Post by **adelinyenmah** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:04 am

hexagon son wrote:
adelinyenmah wrote:
hexagon son wrote:I was going to see Will in Tokyo earlier this year, but didn't bother. Celer are/were my fave duo, even more so than BoC.
Man how did you miss that?
Depression.

Wow. I would have to be really fucking depressed to not go to that show. Sorry to hear that.. Hope you feel better.

machinea · Post by **machinea** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 10:12 pm

Wow that really sucks. (Her death and your depression) I've never heard of Celer before. Thanks for mentioning this. I hope Will is doing okay. Damn.

Basepair · Post by **Basepair** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 10:47 pm

anywhere i can download some stuff to listen to? (preferably legally!)

Spenner · Post by **Spenner** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 1:01 am

http://celer.bandcamp.com/

Or their Last.fm, I believe there are some random freebies.

hexagon son · Post by **hexagon son** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 4:10 pm

I just got "Approach Me, and Find Me This Way" by Celer a few days ago. Fucking amazing drone once again. I don't know if its stuff they composed before her death, or stuff he has done on his own since, but it sure is beautiful. Drone is the best genre of music ever!