Artist : Celer
Title : Nacreous Clouds
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2008
Date : 02/03/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 37
Label : and/OAR
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 78:47 min
Size : 65,4 MB
Tracklist:
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01.80,000 Feet 02:27
02.Taking Measures Toward Morning 01:45
03.Cherry Souls Awakening 01:58
04.Scarfs, Blisters And Night Lights 02:37
05.Artificial Colours 02:47
06.Swift And Ersatz Cough To Morning 02:17
07.Fathom This Young Life 02:48
08.Metal Master 01:22
09.Diphenhydramine 04:03
10.Sluggish In The Morning 02:18
11.Seeing; That Side Of Teaching 02:18
12.Mi 01:49
13.Peak Pressure 05:11
14.Rain Machines 01:11
15.Voiceless Devilfish 01:01
16.Swarms Of Orange 01:24
17.The Divine Is Not Invisible 01:49
18.Passing Hills And Still Windmills 01:11
19.Petrified Forest 03:35
20.Ice Deserts Over Ross Island 03:25
21.Scratch The Chest Of Your Voices 01:03
22.Blind Darsan 00:53
23.Missed Language 01:01
24.Late Calms 01:14
25."To Be Holy, Be Wholly Your Own" 03:19
26.Hyperopia 02:53
27.Right To Left 01:25
28.A Minor Echolocation 02:32
29.We Were Blond First 01:36
30.The Stars Are Only Smears 01:55
31.Orionne 01:14
32.5:59 AM 02:24
33.Ends Meet 01:59
34.Mass Clouds 03:35
35.Till The Clouds Roll By 00:09
36.Apricot Sunrise 01:49
37.Echelons 02:30
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78:47 min
Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs), also known as "nacreous clouds", ares
found in the winter polar stratosphere at altitudes of 15,000û25,000
metres (50,000û80,000 ft). Due to their high altitude and the curvature
of the surface of the Earth, these clouds will receive sunlight from below
the horizon and reflect it to the ground, shining brightly well before dawn
or after dusk. PSCs form at very low temperatures, below -78 ░C. These
temperatures can occur in the lower stratosphere in polar winter. In the
Antarctic, temperatures below -88 ░C frequently cause type II PSCs.
Such low temperatures are rarer in the Arctic. Apart from arctic regions,
PSCs have also been known to be seen in Scandinavia, Iceland, Alaska
and Northern Canada. Sometimes, however, they occur as far south as
England.
This beautiful release features 37 short tracks of raw iridescent ambience
(total time exceeding 78 minutes) reflecting the hyper-temporal nature
of what are known as "nacreous clouds". And like the clouds, the tracks
are quick to appear and disappear. Playback using the random shuffle
mode of your CD player is highly recommended.
While this is undoubtedly an ambient release, it is unusual in that there
are many short tracks instead of one or two long ones, and each of the
tracks is notably "raw" in that they do not use additional processing like
reverb to enhance the initial processed sound sources further. This might
prove to be a challenge for those who prefer their ambience buried
under a thousand pounds of reverb, but it is not the intent of the artists or
and/OAR to release "just another ambient CD". Instead, we invite you to
explore an alternative method of rendering ambience in a way that is
more immediate, therefore effecting the listener's mind in a more
personal and powerful way.
"We originally recorded ourselves playing instruments such as cello,
violin, piano and bells. We also made recordings of household sounds
(such as showers, running water in the sink, and television static), plus the
wind outside, beaches cars passing, walking on gravel streets, etc.
Afterward we went through everything, choosing specific parts in lengths
ranging from 3 seconds to 3 minutes, and made tape loops of
everything. At this point, we arranged the different tape loops into
patterns and speeds meant to resemble the clouds and their actions as
much as possible. When mixing the loops, we played three to six of them
at a time, on different reel-to-reel tape players connected to both of our
laptops and channeled back out into a Kaiser filter." (Celer)
Celer are the wife and husband duo of Dani Baquet-Long and Will Long.
After releasing a rather prolific series of handcrafted self-released CDRs,
2008 has seen a sudden flurry of CD releases on recording labels such as
Spekk (with Matthieu Ruhlmann), two releases on Infraction (with a
possible third to come?), plus and/OAR.
Danielle Baquet -Long is a teacher of special education and music
therapy, a seasoned and published writer of poetry and prose, a painter,
multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, also recording under the project name
of Chubby Wolf. She has an extensive background in Gender Studies,Educha WinoHiLiplreexbyauun DucuexAmthreth http://www.and-oar.orgfornia.expression. They currently reside on