Soundscaping Records are very pleased to
invite Celer for the label's second
release, Pockets of Wheat, a most
special album to us.
Celer is the sound, visual, literary,
and artistic endeavor of the husband and
wife duo of Will Long and Danielle
Baquet-Long. The album was recorded
during a three day journey driving
across the US from California to
Mississippi, while the musician couple
spent their days at a small hotel in
Northern Texas. During these three days,
they realized the concept of æPockets of
Wheat/ExteriorsÆ, created illustrations
for their intent of the music and penned
down a library of notes and structures
to use. Hence, made many field
recordings and string recordings with
equipment brought along, while other
piano pieces were recorded later on an
old, unused family piano.
From their room at the back of the
hotel, they saw endless stretches of
wheat fields. With open windows, the
couple noticed the constant sound of the
wheat blowing from the wind, an almost
gentle, yet persistent, crackling and
fuzz, but also changed constantly.
Creating music in their original form,
drawing on feelings of togetherness,
intimacy, and the expansiveness
surrounding them, with the ever-changing
landscape, the concept of æPockets of
Wheat/ExteriorsÆ was perceived. With
associations to the ghost of Algernon
BlackwoodÆs The Willows, in entirety
founded in nature, perceptions arose
through constant interpretation of the
sounds of nature; aggression, subtlety,
intimacy, and distance.
Roughly five hours of recordings of
cello, violin, piano, bells, crickets,
and wind were then applied the idea of
an æalways changing but always the sameÆ
idea to it. Splicing the recordings to
about hundred 5-10 second tape loops,
the loops were then played back from
laptops and repeated in arbitrarily
selected order by the two musicians
without predetermined order. As such,
the movements of the wheat in the fields
by the winds were mimicked: always
similar, but constantly changing.
The enclosed recording contains 7
movements, though they are strung
together not to break the continuity.
The several layers found within the
recording are not always discernible,
but are still there, just more subtle,
as is the case with details in nature.
NatureÆs presence is also an imperative,
though not the sole inspiration, but in
the end the music of Celer in Pockets of
Wheat expresses purely their feelings,
identity and the atmosphere surrounding
these moments, and in keeping with a
continuous recording, captures the
essence of what is heard in our daily
lives, essentially one singular thing:
sound.
Mastered by Andreas Nordenstam
Artwork by Trym Asserson
Graphics by Erik Sand
Tracklist:
01.Pockets Of Wheat Parts I - VII (59:10)
Celer-Pockets_Of_Wheat-2010-BCC
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