Ok well it’s time to get to covering more Celer again and well this was good. Alcoves is another solid Ambient and Drone album from Celer and it just doesn’t really blow me away as much as some of the other stuff I’ve heard from the project. Glitter Patterns was really damn good tho and Elapsed Paradise I also heavily fucked with. But then there’s the opener which I thought was alright but pretty weak for Celer standards. The nature recordings on some of the pieces on ... read more

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willowsfields

Through listening to this there were several points where I found this album playing in the background, so after recognizing that, I'd try to pay attention once again. I would find myself oddly entranced, before eventually finding that the music had found its way back into the background once more, this cycle kept repeating as I listened through which is kinda the beauty of it. Alcoves is one of those albums that you don't always need to be paying full attention to to feel like you get the full ... read more

franklinw

Love the water recordings on this one, there's a point where the synth pads drop out completely and you get entirely swallowed up by the sound of rushing water, creates a really powerful feeling of complete solitude. Glitter patterns is another great track. Definitely one of my favorite releases from Celer.

Favorite track: Anabranch Inter-vales.

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