Cantus Libres (remastered) CD

Recently Will Long has been offering up freshly remastered reissues of some of his earliest work as Celer, including numerous self-released sets he made with his original studio partner, Danielle Baquet-Long. The latest to get this treatment is Cantus Libres, a double-disc suite of lengthy tracks that has long been one of the most hard-to-find sets in Celer's discography. Sitting somewhere between ambient and drone, much of the material is built around rising and falling, swelling and gently pulsing musical movements. While almost entirely electronic and crafted from densely layered, effects-laden synthesizer chords and textures, it's almost neo-classical in its use of cinematic sweeps and emotive, slow-release melodies. Thanks to a superb remastering job, it also now sounds more attractive than ever before.