Epicentral Examples of the More or Less

by Celer

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YuX Phasey After all this time...this still has to be my favorite Celer release. His most consistent album, still standing out from the rest of discography. I still wonder how he did it, the way these loops & drones seem to speak...grab this one, its a legendary piece of art indeed. Favorite track: Motionless at Lake Underhere.

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	1.	Motionless at Lake Underhere 03:34
	2.	Losing Funnel 02:09
	3.	Whirlybirdy 00:55
	4.	Entrancing Entrenchment 08:04
	5.	Midnight on the Streets Around the Pointed Towers of Gading Kirana 02:42
	6.	Lazy Beauty 03:06
	7.	Layered Where I Can Listen Closely 01:32
	8.	Backseat Fadeout 01:16
	9.	An Infinite Blast of Icy Air 09:09
	10.	Delayed Jitterbugs 01:26
	11.	Sampoernas Rising in the Heat of Summer 04:15
	12.	Fill Your Light With Lessness 02:20
	13.	Untitled 13 00:36
	14.	Guilt as a Return to Melancholy 10:02

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Celer is the solo ambient project of sound artist Will Long, who works out of Tokyo, Japan. He is well known for producing dense, emotive creations that are never lost in the gloom of myriad other ambient releases, due to the remarkable delicacy of each layer of sound in his pieces, which never become overwhelming or too drawn-out to to sustain their initial emotional content, as is so often the case with many extended ambient compositions.

Indeed, the thought that goes into Celer releases is evident from the incredibly detailed titles that Long has given to each of the three tracks on Epicentral Examples of the More or Less, with each small portion of the title being relevant to an individual phase within each overall track – an arrangement choice which is made, on listening, into a feat of compositional skill, due to the fact that the tracks, even when starkly cutting between samples of reversing tapes, field recordings, and Celer's trademark throbbing, glowing drones, at no point ever sound merely like a compilation of small pieces.

Rather, the album remains cohesive overall, and whilst at points the listener is met with surprises in the form of phasing waves of bright sequencers - a sound that many would never have imagined Long using after listening to releases such as Evaporate and Wonder - or even acid-house synth waves on Fill Your Light With Lessness from the third and final track - Epicentral Examples of the More or Less retains the genuine emotive content that has become a cornerstone of Celer releases, coupled with a creative talent that leaves most contemporary ambient music dead in the water.

Recorded over two years in Jakarta, Indonesia and Tokyo, Long appears to have had time to revisit these recordings over and over again, allowing him to produce a release that is simultaneously a step forward for Celer's sound, and the level of musical wizardry that the rest of the ambient scene must now aspire to reach.

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released August 1, 2012

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