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How could you believe me when I said I loved you when you know I've been a liar all my life

by Celer

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      ¥1,200 JPY  or more

     

  • LP edition (white sleeve)
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    When this LP was pressed, I sent the majority of the LPs to Japan, and 1 box back to my home in the US. However, the box to the US was slightly beat up, resulting in some smashed corners to the sleeves. Since this LP has now been sold out for quite a while, I'm putting them up for sale here.

    IMPORTANT: The sleeves are graded Good - Very Good, the vinyl Near Mint - Mint.

    THIS CAN ONLY BE SHIPPED TO THE UNITED STATES.

    LP black vinyl edition on Two Acorns, packaged in a full color, uncoated, reverse board sleeve with white inner sleeve with download code, first edition of 300. Last copies.

    Includes unlimited streaming of How could you believe me when I said I loved you when you know I've been a liar all my life via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • LP edition
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    LP black vinyl edition on Two Acorns, packaged in a full color, uncoated, reverse board sleeve with brown inner sleeve with download code, first edition of 300

    Includes unlimited streaming of How could you believe me when I said I loved you when you know I've been a liar all my life via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • CS first edition
    Cassette + Digital Album

    CS special edition with smoky gray imprinted cassette, full color jcard board sleeve, and cream jcard shell, first edition of 30. Tracks 1 and 4 are alternate versions exclusive to this cassette edition.

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  • CS second edition (final copies!)
    Cassette + Digital Album

    CS special edition with clear and gray-lined imprinted cassette, full color jcard board sleeve, and cream jcard shell, edition of 30. Tracks 1 and 4 are alternate versions exclusive to this cassette edition.

    Includes unlimited streaming of How could you believe me when I said I loved you when you know I've been a liar all my life via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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    CD edition from White Paddy Mountain

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  • Test Pressing (Edition of 2)
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    White label test pressing, comes in brown paper sleeve. Edition of 4.

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about

Artist statement

A few years ago I took a road trip with my 80-year old uncle through parts of the American southwest. We drove to Moab, where the sunset turned the canyon walls orange in the early evening, and after midnight, passing puffy clouds still showed through the the navy blue sky. In the morning, the buttes seemed brilliant bleached in sunlight, and the view from above the canyon was completely silent save for the wind, and birds occasionally flying past. In the Needles district, the centuries-old petroglyphs were mixed with graffiti; spraypaint cans lying half-submerged rusted in the sand below. We drove through the back roads of the La Sal Mountains, and down across the windswept grey Colorado plateau.

Past the expanses of Monument Valley, on the outskirts of Kayenta, rainstorms loomed in the distance as teenage hitchhikers dotted the roadsides, along which were makeshift souvenir shops, alone like fireworks stands after a passed holiday. Climbing out of the desert, we passed through Aspen, through the ski resorts and celebrity mansions, where the average annual household income is $69,000, compared to $21,000 in Kayenta. The next day, our drive ended near Ouray, the fog rolling over the evergreen-lined roads.

Several years later, after leaving California, I put together a collection of tracks made with an electric piano and a wooden flute. Two tracks were copied onto two sun-baked cassette tapes I had found on the dashboard of a car, and the other two from a warped 12" test pressing. Revisiting these pieces after living in Japan for several years, they instantly reminded me of the trip, and what I left behind in the United States. The tapes fluttered and stuck, drenched in hiss and grime. The record skipped, wavered, and dropped in and out. Yet with these imperfections, it completely reflected my memory of the places, and what they represented. There are sides to everything, whether it causes you to change or not.

- Will Long, 2015

アーティスト・ステートメント

数年前、80歳になる叔父とアメリカ南西部を車で旅したことがあった。我々がドライブをしたモアブという場所では、夕方になると夕日が渓谷の壁をオレンジ色に染め、夜中を過ぎると、濃紺の夜空にふわふわの雲が現われては通り過ぎていった。朝になると、太陽にさらされたビュート(孤立丘)が輝いて見え、渓谷の上からの景色は、風と、時折飛んで行く鳥の音をのぞいては完全な静寂に包まれていた。ニードルズ地区にある、何世紀も前の岩面彫刻には落書きが入り混じっていて、錆びたスプレーペイントの缶が砂地に半分埋もれて残されていた。我々はラ・サル山脈の裏道をドライブして、吹きさらしの灰色のコロラド高原を超えて行った。

カエンタ郊外の広々としたモニュメントバレーを過ぎると、遠くのほうにぼんやりと暴風雨が見えた。沿道にはティーンエイジャーのヒッチハイカー達が点在し、簡易な作りの土産店が休日明けの花火の屋台のように寂しそうに並んでいた。砂漠を抜けると、我々はアスペンというスキーリゾートを通り過ぎた。セレブなマンションが立ち並ぶその辺りの一世帯の年収は69,000ドル、一方カエンタでは21,000ドルだ。

何年か後になってカリフォルニアを去ったあと、私は電子ピアノと木笛を使って一連の曲を制作した。その中の2曲が、車のダッシュボードの上で陽にあたって劣化したカセットテープの中にコピーされているのを私は発見した。そして残りの2曲は、歪んでしまったテストプレス用のレコードの中にあった。日本に何年か住んだ後でこれらの作品を再検討してみると、あの旅のこと、そして私がアメリカに置いてきたもののことがすぐさま思い起こされた。テープには歪みやひっかかりがあり、ノイズとホコリまみれだった。レコードには音飛びや音揺れがあり、音が大きくなったり小さくなったりした。けれどもこれらの不完全さは、それぞれの場所の私の思い出、そしてそれらが意味するものを見事に象徴していた。すべてのものには、両端がある。それが我々に変化を起こさせるものかどうかにかかわらず。

- Will Long, 2015


Press statement

Inspired by the American Southwest, "How could you believe me when I told you that I loved you when you know I've been a liar all my life" is the new album by American musician Celer, aka Will Long, now living in Japan. Sourced from an electric piano and wooden flute, tape loops were copied to sun-baked cassette tapes, and a warped vinyl tester, using the most basic format-inherent effects. Based on an idea of primitive Americana, it can be seen as a mediation on the different sides of music and cultural perception, or a reflection of inherent imperfections.

プレス・ステートメント

アメリカ南西部にインスパイヤされた "How could you believe me when I told you that I loved you when you know I've been a liar all my
life"は、アメリカ人の音楽家で現在は日本在住のCelerことWill Longのニュー・アルバムである。電子ピアノと木笛を音源にしたテープ・ループを、陽に焼けて劣化したカセットテープと歪んだテスト用レコードにコピーし、フォーマット特有のエフェクトという最も基礎的な方法を用いて制作された。プリミティブ・アメリカーナの一例として、音楽の様々な側面と文化的認知を熟慮した作品であり、また特有の不完全さを熟考した作品といえる。

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credits

released June 7, 2015

Music and photography by Will Long
Layout by Rutger Zuydervelt
Translation by Rie Mitsutake

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