Celer (group)

Celer
Origin	Huntington Beach, California, U.S.
Genres	Ambient music Drone music Electronic music Experimental music Film scores Minimalist music
Years active	2005 — Present
Labels	Self-released Infraction I, Absentee Slow Flow Records Spekk And/oar Mystery Sea Dragons Eye Recordings Low Point Humming Conch Sentient Recognition Archive Digitalis Home Normal Students Of Decay Smallfish Basses Frequences Blackest Rainbow Streamline Murmur Records Entropy Records
Associated acts	Chubby Wolf, Oh, Yoko, Rangefinder, Hollywood Dream Trip
Website	http://www.celer.jp
Members	Will Long
Past members	Danielle Baquet-Long (deceased)

Celer is a warm drone music group based in Tokyo, Japan.

About

Founded in 2005, at the beginning of their relationship in Huntington Beach, California, U.S.A., Celer was created as a musical and artistic collaboration between Danielle Baquet-Long and Will Long. After producing music for record labels, installations, and exhibits worldwide from 2005-2009, Danielle Baquet-Long died on July 8, 2009 of heart failure,^[1] From 2009 to the present, Celer is the solo ambient project of Will Long.^[2]

History

Between 2005 and 2007, the couple created 22 releases, which they self-released, packaged in handmade, hand-painted packages, with designs, and individual stencils. The handmade packaging designs have been described as "deliciously mysterious",^[3] where "Muted and bleach colours stretch as far as the eye can see in these panoramic paintings for the mind",^[4] and the music as "deeply personal, or unwittingly obscure",^[5] and "gentle, haunting and evocative".^[6]

Discography

Albums

• White Prism (Self-released, 2004)
• Ariill (Self-released, 2005)
• Belsslsssll (Self-released, 2005)
• Ceylon (Self-released, 2006)
• Continents (Self-released, 2006)
• Descender (Self-released, 2006)
• Melodia (Self-released, 2006)
• Sampling Pond (Self-released, 2006)
• Sunlir/Scols (Self-released, 2006)
• Tingshas (Self-released, 2006)
• Ammonia (Self-released, 2007)
• Cantus Libres (Self-released, 2007)
• Dilue (Diluted) (Self-released, 2007)
• Neon (Self-released, 2007)
• Para (Self-released, 2007)
• Red Seals (Self-released, 2007)
• Sadha (Self-released, 2007)
• Sieline (Self-released, 2007)
• Discourses Of The Withered (Infraction, 2008)
• The Everything And The Nothing (Infraction, 2008)
• Nacreous Clouds (And/oar, 2008)
• Tropical (Mystery Sea, 2008)
• Cursory Asperses (Slow Flow Records, 2008)
• I Love You So Much I Can't Even Title This (The Light That Never Goes Out Went Out) (Self-released, 2008)
• Capri (Humming Conch, 2009)
• Compositions For Cassette (Digitalis Limited, 2009)
• Breeze Of Roses (Dragons Eye Recordings, 2009)
• Engaged Touches (Home Normal, 2009)
• Levitation And Breaking Points (Self-released, 2009)
• Fountain Glider (Students Of Decay, 2009)
• Poulaine (Students Of Decay, 2009)
• Brittle (Low Point, 2009)
• Close Proximity And The Unhindered Care-All (Sentient Recognition Archive, 2009)
• In Escaping Lakes (Slow Flow Records, 2009)
• Pockets Of Wheat (Soundscaping Records, 2010)
• Rags Of Contentment (Digitalis Limited, 2010)
• Dwell In Possibility (Blackest Rainbow, 2010)
• Dying Star (Dragons Eye Recordings, 2010)
• Panoramic Dreams Bathed In Seldomness (Basses Frequences, 2010)
• Honey Moon (Stunned Records, 2010)
• Vestiges Of An Inherent Melancholy (Blackest Rainbow, 2010)
• Salvaged Violets (Infraction, 2010)
• Ever, Irreplaceable Beauty (Self-released, 2011)
• Foolish Causes Of Fail And Ruin (Self-released, 2011)
• Menggayakan (Analog Path, 2011)
• Sunlir (Con-V, 2011)
• Tightrope (Low Point, 2012)
• Evaporate And Wonder (Experimedia, 2012)
• In The Finger-Painted Fields Of The Eyes (Prairie Fire, 2012)
• Dearest Ices (Northern Twilights, 2012)
• Lightness And Irresponsibility (Constellation Tatsu, 2012)
• Epicentral Examples Of The More Or Less (Futuresequence, 2012)
• Redness + Perplexity (Somehow Recordings, 2012)
• Relief and Altruism (Self-released, 2012)
• An Immensity Merely To Save Life (Self-released, 2012)
• Without Retrospect, the Morning (Glacial Movements, 2012)
• Perfectly Beneath Us (Still*Sleep, 2012)
• I, Anatomy (Streamline, 2012)
• Radish (Commune Disc, 2013)
• Viewpoint (Murmur Records, 2013)
• Climbing Formation (Entropy Records, 2013)
• Diving Into the Plasma Pool (Self-released, 2013)
• Voyeur (Humming Conch, 2014)
• Zigzag (Spekk, 2014)
• Sky Limits (Two Acorns, 2014)
• Sky Limits (Baskaru, 2014)
• Jima (I, Absentee, 2015)
• How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life (Two Acorns, 2015)
• How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life (White Paddy Mountain, 2015)
• Tempelhof (Two Acorns, 2015)
• Akagi (Two Acorns, 2016)
• Inside The Head Of Gods (Two Acorns, 2016)
• I Love You So Much I Can't Even Title This (Infraction, 2016)
• Two Days and One Night (Sequel, 2016)
• Tetra (2016)
• Simultaneity (2016)

Collaborations

• Mesoscaphe with Mathieu Ruhlmann (Spekk, 2008)
• Generic City with Yui Onodera (Two Acorns, 2010)
• Maastunnel/Mt. Mitake with Machinefabriek (Self-released, 2012)
• Numa/Penarie with Machinefabriek (Self-released, 2012)
• Greetings From Celer & Machinefabriek with Machinefabriek (Self-released, 2012)
• Hei/Sou with Machinefabriek (Self-released, 2012)
• Vain Shapes And Intricate Parapets with Hakobune (Chemical Tapes, 2013)
• Five Years with Yui Onodera (Two Acorns, 2015)
• Symbols with Duenn (Duenn, 2016)

EPs, Singles

• Canopy (Self-released, 2007)
• Elias (Self-released, 2007)
• Untitled (Frozen Loop (Self-released, 2007)
• Voodoo Crowds (Self-released, 2007)
• Mane Blooms (Low Point, 2009)
• Four Pieces/One (Smallfish, 2009)
• Four Pieces/Two (Smallfish, 2009)
• Four Pieces/Three (Smallfish, 2009)
• Four Pieces/Four (Smallfish, 2009)
• All At Once Is What Eternity Is (Taâlem, 2010)
• Hell Detoured (Rural Colours, 2010)
• Weavings Of A Rapid Disenchantment (Basses Frequences, 2010)
• Emotion (Self-released, 2012)
• Weak Ends (Self-released, 2013)
• 日没 Nichibotsu (Self-released, 2013)

References

1. "Celer: Love and Quietude". www.tokafi.com. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
2. "Celer". www.thesingularwe.org. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
3. "Celer". www.hardformat.org. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
4. "Celer: Neon". www.textura.org. August 2008. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
5. "Celer – NEON – CDR – Self Release, hand made packaging". White Line. June 21, 2008. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
6. "Celer – Close Proximity And The Unhindered Care-all". The Line Of Best Fit. March 18, 2010. Retrieved August 19, 2012.

External links

• Official website
• Interview with Celer and Mathieu Ruhlmann on the album "Mesoscaphe" on Spekk
• Ten Questions with Celer on Textura
• Celer at "Discogs"
• "For Dani" feature on "Foxy Digitalis"
• Celer Biography on "Humming Conch"
• "Ten Reasons To Celebrate Celer" on "Textura"
• "Celer on NPR"