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

White Paddy Mountain
(wpmc023: 4941135980538)
Release date: 06/07/2015
Genre: Electronic



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 promontories 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 the next day near Ouray, the fog rolling over the evergreen-lined roads.


Several years later, after leaving California, I made 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 for a cancelled release. 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. The tracks had inherited their format-specific effects. There are sides to everything, whether it causes you to make a choice or not.

- 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. Based on an idea of primitive Americana, and sourced from an electric piano and wooden flute, tape loops were copied to sun-baked cassette tapes, and a warped vinyl tester, utilizing the most basic format-inherent effects. It can be seen not necessarily as an example of age and decay, but as a mediation on the different sides of music and cultural perception, or a reflection of inherent imperfections.

"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 available as an LP in a first edition of 300 copies and a special edition cassette on Two Acorns. It is available on CD on White Paddy Mountain. Any errors you may hear are intentional, or natural.

01. Bleeds and swell blends
02. These dreams, how portentously gloomy
03. Natural deflections
04. Acrimonious, like fiddles

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