Artist : Celer
Title : Brittle
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2009
Date : 09/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 01
Label : Low Point
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 74:38 min
Size : 62,8 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Eustress 74:38
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74:38 min
From Boomkat:
**Over one hour of continuous music**
This otherworldly album from Celer marks
the summit of the duo's creative
achievements, taking the form of a
single piece occupying a duration of
just under seventy-five minutes. It's a
studiously subtle and superficially
unassuming body of work, but spending
any time in the company of this music
will have you rapt under its spell. As a
starting point, recordings of piano,
violin, cello, bells, harpsichord and
whistles were made, eventually being
merged with some naturally occurring
sounds captured by a room recording. The
compositional process continued with
these various auditory fragments being
structured into nineteen different
tracks, all of which were then melted
into the single, monolithic whole
residing on this disc. It's hard to
describe the kind of sounds Celer have
conjured for this; on the one hand,
Brittle is elusive and reticent, yet it
somehow transcends all the quietness and
mystery, conveying the sense that this
is a living, continually evolving stream
of sounds; its serene, unruptured
aesthetic comparable to the surface of a
mirror, as if reflecting those
background noises of everyday life back
at you in a transformed state.
Tragically, this album is the last by
husband and wife duo Danielle Basquet-
Long and Will Long, as Danielle passed
away last month at the age of 26, having
suffered heart failure. Such profoundly
sad circumstances inevitably tint the
album with an elegiac air, and without
question the eerie, ethereal beauty of
this music will surely serve as an
enduring legacy for Danielle and her
work in Celer. Highly recommended.