Engaged Touches

by Celer

Engaged Touches cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 17 April 2009
  • Label: Home Normal
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:06:36
  • Community rating: 3.81/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Danielle Baquet-Long

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Composed by the husband-and-wife ambient duo Will Long and Danielle Baquet-Long, this incredibly delicate album consists of massive, slow-moving tape loops and acoustic field recordings. The music possesses a profoundly bittersweet, fragile beauty, acting as a meditation on memory and ephemeral intimacy. It stands as a particularly poignant release following Danielle's tragic passing shortly after its completion.

Genres

Descriptors: Dreamy, atmospheric, instrumental, repetitive, minimalistic, droning, ambient, minimal, long-form

Tracklist

  1. A Once And Meaningful Life (5:03)
  2. Remaining Stretches (9:41)
  3. Separations And Reactions (2:37)
  4. Doubts Of Words (4:03)
  5. Unless They Were Beautiful (4:36)
  6. What Our Mouths Make Them (3:15)
  7. Hanging Herself On The Lonely Fifth Column (Gramophones That Remind Us Of What Sounds Once Were) (8:36)
  8. Openings Of Love (Fireworks) (16:36)
  9. Extended Sways Of Silence (12:04)

Credits

  • Celer - primary artist
  • Jeremy Bible - design
  • Danielle Baquet-Long - photography by, text by [words], recorded by [field recordings], effects, piano, strings, tape, bells, whistle, arranged by
  • Will Long - recorded by [field recordings], effects, piano, strings, tape, bells, whistle, arranged by

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