Celer is an American drone music project formed in 2005 by composer and musician Will Long and Danielle Baquet-Long.

History

Founded in 2005, at the beginning of their relationship in Huntington Beach, California, U.S.A., Celer was created as a musical and artistic collaboration between Danielle Baquet-Long and Will Long.

Between 2005 and 2007, the couple created 22 releases, which they self-released, packaged in handmade, hand-painted packages, with designs, and individual stencils. The handmade packaging designs have been described as "deliciously mysterious",^[1] where "Muted and bleach colours stretch as far as the eye can see in these panoramic paintings for the mind",^[2] and the music as "deeply personal, or unwittingly obscure",^[3] and "gentle, haunting and evocative",^[4] created "primarily from personal memories and thought experiments".^[5]

After producing music for record labels, installations, and exhibits worldwide from 2005 to 2009, Danielle Baquet-Long died on July 8, 2009, of heart failure.^[6] From 2009 to the present, Celer has been the solo ambient project of Will Long.^[7]

Discography

Albums

• White Prism (Self-released, 2004)
• Ariill (Self-released, 2005)
• Belsslsssll (Self-released, 2005)
• Ceylon (Self-released, 2006)
• Continents (Self-released, 2006; Two Acorns re-issue, 2021)
• Descender (Self-released, 2006)
• Melodia (Self-released, 2006)
• Sampling Pond (Self-released, 2006)
• Sunlir/Scols (Self-released, 2006)
• Tingshas (Self-released, 2006)
• Ammonia (Self-released, 2007)
• Cantus Libres (Self-released, 2007; Two Acorns re-issue, 2021)
• Dilue (Diluted) (Self-released, 2007)
• Neon (Self-released, 2007; Two Acorns re-issue, 2021)
• Para (Self-released, 2007)
• Red Seals (Self-released, 2007)
• Sadha (Self-released, 2007; Two Acorns re-issue, 2021)
• Sieline (Self-released, 2007)
• Discourses Of The Withered (Infraction, 2008)
• The Everything And The Nothing (Infraction, 2008)
• Nacreous Clouds (And/oar, 2008)
• Tropical (Mystery Sea, 2008)
• Cursory Asperses (Slow Flow Records, 2008)
• I Love You So Much I Can't Even Title This (The Light That Never Goes Out Went Out) (Self-released, 2008)
• Capri (Humming Conch, 2009)
• Compositions For Cassette (Digitalis Limited, 2009)
• Breeze Of Roses (Dragons Eye Recordings, 2009)
• Engaged Touches (Home Normal, 2009)
• Levitation And Breaking Points (Self-released, 2009)
• Fountain Glider (Students Of Decay, 2009)
• Poulaine (Students Of Decay, 2009)
• Brittle (Low Point, 2009)
• Close Proximity And The Unhindered Care-All (Sentient Recognition Archive, 2009)
• In Escaping Lakes (Slow Flow Records, 2009)
• Pockets Of Wheat (Soundscaping Records, 2010)
• Rags Of Contentment (Digitalis Limited, 2010)
• Dwell In Possibility (Blackest Rainbow, 2010)
• Dying Star (Dragons Eye Recordings, 2010)
• Panoramic Dreams Bathed In Seldomness (Basses Frequences, 2010)
• Honey Moon (Stunned Records, 2010)
• Vestiges Of An Inherent Melancholy (Blackest Rainbow, 2010)
• Salvaged Violets (Infraction, 2010)
• Ever, Irreplaceable Beauty (Self-released, 2011)
• Foolish Causes Of Fail And Ruin (Self-released, 2011)
• Menggayakan (Analog Path, 2011)
• Sunlir (Con-V, 2011)
• Tightrope (Low Point, 2012)
• Evaporate And Wonder (Experimedia, 2012)
• In The Finger-Painted Fields Of The Eyes (Prairie Fire, 2012)
• Dearest Ices (Northern Twilights, 2012)
• Lightness And Irresponsibility (Constellation Tatsu, 2012)
• Epicentral Examples Of The More Or Less (Futuresequence, 2012)
• Redness + Perplexity (Somehow Recordings, 2012)
• Relief and Altruism (Self-released, 2012)
• An Immensity Merely To Save Life (Self-released, 2012)
• Without Retrospect, the Morning (Glacial Movements, 2012)
• Perfectly Beneath Us (Still*Sleep, 2012)
• I, Anatomy (Streamline, 2012)
• Radish (Commune Disc, 2013)
• Viewpoint (Murmur Records, 2013)
• Climbing Formation (Entropy Records, 2013)
• Diving Into the Plasma Pool (Self-released, 2013)
• Voyeur (Humming Conch, 2014)
• Zigzag (Spekk, 2014)
• Sky Limits (Two Acorns, 2014)
• Sky Limits (Baskaru, 2014)
• Jima (I, Absentee, 2015)
• How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life (Two Acorns and White Paddy Mountain, 2015)
• Tempelhof (Two Acorns, 2015)
• Akagi (Two Acorns, 2016)
• Inside The Head Of Gods (Two Acorns, 2016)
• I Love You So Much I Can't Even Title This (Infraction, 2016)
• Two Days and One Night (Sequel, 2016)
• Callisto (Two Acorns, 2016)
• In The End You'll Just Disappear (Two Acorns, 2017)
• Alcoves (Cellar Door Tapes, 2017)
• Alcoves (Two Acorns, 2017)
• Another Blue Day (Glistening Examples, 2017)
• Something Cathartic (Polar Seas Recordings, 2018)
• Shima (Gailur, 2018)
• Nacreous Clouds (Two Acorns, 2018)
• Xièxie (Two Acorns, 2019)
• Plays Godflesh (Avalanche Recordings, 2019)
• Vamps (Patient Sounds, 2019)
• Scols (Two Acorns, 2020)
• Continents (Two Acorns, 2020)
• Sadha (Two Acorns, 2021)
• Cantus Libres (Two Acorns, 2021)
• Malaria (Two Acorns, 2021)
• Coral Sea (Two Acorns, 2021)
• Neon (Two Acorns, 2021)
• In Light Of Blues (Room40, 2021)

Collaborations

• Mesoscaphe with Mathieu Ruhlmann (Spekk, 2008)
• Generic City with Yui Onodera (Two Acorns, 2010)
• Maastunnel/Mt. Mitake with Machinefabriek (Self-released, 2012)
• Numa/Penarie with Machinefabriek (Self-released, 2012)
• Greetings From Celer & Machinefabriek with Machinefabriek (Self-released, 2012)
• Hei/Sou with Machinefabriek (Self-released, 2012)
• GAU with CMKK (Celer, Machinefabriek, Romke Kleefstra, Jan Kleefstra) (Monotype, 2013)
• Vain Shapes And Intricate Parapets with Hakobune (Chemical Tapes, 2013)
• Five Years with Yui Onodera (Two Acorns, 2015)
• Symbols with Duenn (Duenn, 2016)
• Background Curtain with Dirk Serries (Monotype, 2016)
• Landmarks with Forest Management (Constellation Tatsu, 2018)

Compilations

• Memory Repetitions (Smalltown Supersound, 2018)
• Future Predictions (Two Acorns, 2020)

EPs, Singles

• Canopy (Self-released, 2007)
• Elias (Self-released, 2007)
• Untitled (Frozen Loop (Self-released, 2007)
• Voodoo Crowds (Self-released, 2007)
• Mane Blooms (Low Point, 2009)
• Four Pieces/One (Smallfish, 2009)
• Four Pieces/Two (Smallfish, 2009)
• Four Pieces/Three (Smallfish, 2009)
• Four Pieces/Four (Smallfish, 2009)
• All At Once Is What Eternity Is (Taâlem, 2010)
• Hell Detoured (Rural Colours, 2010)
• Weavings Of A Rapid Disenchantment (Basses Frequences, 2010)
• On Or Near The Surface (Self-released, 2017)
• Being Below (co-released by Two Acorns and Past Inside the Present, 2021)