I often find field recordings music dull, for obvious reasons. It is not music per se, as it is a capture of ordinary sounds transgressed into a more intricate idea of music of life. The philosophy behind it being that you can truly hear music in most daily occurrences. That - while poetic - often ended up boring me. But Celer often excelled where others failed. And here what we have truly is music in all sense of the word, even if stripped down of its most natural accessible elements. It, perhaps for the first time ever, made me view the central philosophy of field recordings with intrigue and admiration. It is beautiful in ways only Celer (and perhaps Chris Marker) can make it.
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