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Last Updated: 12/16/2009

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City: Sapporo
Country: JP
Signup Date: 4/26/2008

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Wednesday, December 02, 2009 


Ryonkt (LND009)
Ryonkt is the work of Sapporo based artist Ryo Nakata. In the past couple of years he has become a personal friend, collaborator, label mate and late night whisky drinking partner. We only finally got to meet in September of this year when I went up to Sapporo (in Hokkaido - the northern island of Japan) to play a show organized by Ryo. Ryo was due to open the gig after a short sound-check, yet the sound-check merged into the performance and I was unaware he had actually started I was so tuned into the tones Ryo was playing from his Fender guitar.
As such, people quietly wondered in and just sat down, bowed their heads and became encompassed by the music. Such is the effect of Ryo's work. His music is unassuming, full of memory and deeply moving. There is nothing stylistically complex about it, nothing that makes you think about technique or technology. He uses a laptop, guitar and field recording. He plays a few chords and notes. That really is it, yet what Ryo does with one chord is more than most artists can do across entire albums. There is space to his work, space left for the listener to fill in the blanks. There is melody, oh such beautiful melody, the like of which too few artists truly possess.
'Sunlight & Water' starts and ends with water sounds, but there is a whole lot of sun and light going on throughout these four pieces. Mother Earth rarely had a more beautiful soundtrack. (Ian Hawgood)



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Thursday, November 26, 2009 
What can you say about an album as beautiful and poignant as this? I’m not sure really, but what I can tell you is that this is an exquisite example of exactly why so many people love and adore Celer so much. There’s the same passion and depth here that has always featured so prominently in their music and the subtle journey this will take you on really is one to savour. Low-key chords and tones form the backbone of this 40 minute piece and the ebb and flow of the arrangement once again gives their work an almost aquatic, subterranean feeling that leaves you feeling tranquil, serene and yet utterly refreshed. As a background piece to work to, it’s marvellous and allows you to absorb it almost subliminally but I feel this is very definitely a Celer work to put on the headphones and sit back and relax to. Only then will you discover the secret world inside the music that is so utterly enchanting and luscious that you’ll rarely want to venture back outside. Working through several distinct phases, all of them beautiful, there are muted yet angelic choral passages, reduced tonal parts that use resonance as an instrument in itself as well as melancholy but uplifting sections. Everything blends into a seamless whole that demands to be experienced as such. A wonderful, stunning, luxurious work that’s as good as you’d expect… and so much more.

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 
It's becoming increasingly difficult to write about Celer's music. The duo's output has been coming our way at a steady rate in recent months and their music seems to be converging on the extremes of ambient fragility. Far away from the more usual drone recordings that come our way, Celer's music is incredibly bold in its gentleness and the demands it makes on you as a listener. There's a lot going on over the course of this forty minutes, and to get the most out of it you'll have to tune in carefully, but even the most casual level of exposure to this music seems to slow down time. The dynamic range stretches between quietness and lulled imperceptibility, wafting in and out of earshot unless you really crank the volume and it's this coquettish, elusive quality that makes Celer so magical, and places them on a different plane to most other practitioners currently operating in a similar field. While comparisons to Stars Of The Lid and Stephan Mathieu have previously been thrown around these pages, the sheer enigmatic stillness and overwhelming ambiguity of this music makes them a whole other prospect. Highly recommended, as ever.
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Friday, November 20, 2009 
We've had a number of Celer releases in lately and some of you just can't get enough of their mellow ambient ways. Though I've just started to listen to this new CD 'In Escaping Lakes' which has just arrived from Japan and some knobhead has started drilling next door which is totally ruining the ambient chi..... I'm not really sure what you can say about a new Celer record that hasn't been said before? All the ones I've heard prove them to be masters of drifty ambient drone. The music takes you to special places and despite this being a popular thing to be doing right now they stand head and shoulders above the rest. It's really quite good. I listened to Brittle a couple of days ago at home and it was a thoroughly gorgeous way to spend an hour or so. In Escaping Lakes will do the same..... it will take you on an introspective ambient journey and leave you feeling well special at the end of it. Well special! CD only on Slow Flow Records in nice foldy cardboard thing.


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Friday, November 20, 2009 

 

Celer / In Escaping Lakes - WW1001

A Less Distinguished Tributary / Seagrass / Mentioned Fumes / The Light Obtainable In Spaces We Share / Extending and Directly Below / Inoffensive Sets of Misdirection / Calculated Din / Wetness Is Close To Likeness / Horizontal Reflections / Australis / A Buoyant Object, That Rests and Moves In Such A Way /
When Recounting Futures, Don't Fail To Mention Me

39:51 running time

'In Escaping Lakes' is the sequel to 'Cursory Asperses', previously released on Slow Flow. Where 'Cursory Asperses' focused on the slow movement primarily of streams, and other field recordings, 'In Escaping Lakes' continues this pathway to expand into a deeper subject, of lakes and their surroundings. Inspired by a painting by Anthony Feyer, 'In Escaping Lakes' was made to demonstrate enclosure, depth, and closeness in still places.

Will & Danielle: Piano, Strings, Gong, Tingshas, Voice, Electronics, Hydrophone, Flute



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Sunday, November 01, 2009 
The store which has some copies.





Thank you!!!


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Friday, October 23, 2009 
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Thursday, July 30, 2009 
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Ian Hawgood - "We Are Better For Being Built This Way"

1 Warm Afca
2 Celia Ashen
3 Yenali
4 Moose Are Chill
5 Pam Roam
6 Coombe
7 Koma



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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 
銀行振込や代金引換でお支払いも可能ですのでお気軽にメールにてお問い合わせください。
slowflowrec.info[at]gmail.com

Ryo Nakata
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Friday, July 10, 2009 
CelerのDani Baquet-Longが26歳という若さでお亡くなりになられました。

昨日、悲しい知らせをメールで受け取りショックを隠しきれないです。

CDを交換したり、ギフトを貰ったり、Facebookでチャットをしたり、

本当に僕を友人として歓迎してくれて、感謝の気持ちでいっぱいです。

夫であるWillが早く元気になってくれる事を強く願っています。

Slow Flow RecはWillとDaniが本当の最後に仕上げた作品"In Escaping Lakes"を今後リリースします。

"Cursory Asperses"のフォロー作品です。

まだ予定は決まっていませんが、多くの方々に聴いていただけるよう計画していきます。



Celerファンとして、友人としてこれからもCelerを聴き続けたいとおもいます。


Forever Dani...

Ryo


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Dear friends,

With great sadness I have to announce to you, our friends, that Dani passed away yesterday, July 8. On Tuesday morning I woke to find her unconscious, and not breathing. The medics were called, and she was revived, but fell directly into a coma and didn't wake up. She passed away yesterday at 3pm, with her family by her. All that is known to say why is that her heart stopped, for no foreseeable reason. The only relation is that her father died in the same way, of a cardiac arrest at the age of 29. She was 26.

Right now I don't know how to express the loss and sadness I feel, knowing that someone so ultimately close to me, and such an inspiration and friend to so many other people in the world is gone. All I can say is that she won't be forgotten, or pushed aside only because she's gone. She'll always be with me, as my inspiration, my love, my everything. All I can say is I miss her, every second.

Right now I won't be able to answer many emails, as there's only so much I can talk about this. Time will heal this, but I know the sadness will never go away. This, I'm ok with, as I never want to forget every way she changed my life, and touched my heart.

I appreciate all your support and love, and even though many of you only knew her through her poetry, or her music, I hope they are good memories. Enclosed is a favorite photo of her, taken at her beach, at home.

Also, here was her favorite quote:

'The Meaning is in the Wonder"
- Kenneth Patchen

Sincerely,
Will
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