Landmarks, by Celer & Forest Management

Landmarks

by Celer & Forest Management

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1.	7° 10° 77° 83° 09:53	buy track
2.	The first steps onto their soil 02:43	buy track
3.	Hotel Mona Lisa 03:58	buy track
4.	Indistinguishable from magic 05:48	buy track
5.	A big and strange place 00:34	buy track
6.	Volcanic institutions 01:19	buy track
7.	From fire, ice 03:15	buy track
8.	Embera 04:34	buy track
9.	5,000 feet under the surface 00:38	buy track
10.	Blending all of the above 03:59	buy track
11.	S-shaped isthmus 02:32	buy track
12.	Magnified pieces of thermodynamics 06:26	buy track
13.	The signs are everywhere 00:20	buy track
14.	Rights of the idea or a machine 10:32	buy track

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Cassette edition available on Constellation Tatsu: ctatsu.bandcamp.com/album/landmarks

Collaborating for the first time, Will Long and John Daniel combine their methods using tape machines, loops, and computers to score a reimagining of Peter Weir's film and Paul Theroux's novel "The Mosquito Coast". Sourcing inspiration from a view of the film and book as a historical pendulum, the musicians found that these reinterpretations left them nostalgic for a different time, something that's only partly imagined, and without the defined predictions about the life cycles of mass culture based on our limited understanding of current events.

"Landmarks is the first collaboration between two artists who need no introduction. The more experienced Celer (Will Long) is joined by the up-and-coming mid-western master of plaintive ambient-drone, Forest Management (John Daniels). Their two styles are distinct but here it is difficult to tease out who is doing what. The result is, therefore, a coherent take on collaboration more than a dialogue between two individual voices. “Embera” is somewhat reminiscent of the forest ravescapes of Gas. The tape is book-ended by “7° 10° 77° 83°” and “Rights of the idea or a machine”, each ten-minutes of dreamy loops oscillating between past and present, hope and despair, book and film. Landmarks takes as its source material The Mosquito Coast, both the Paul Theroux novel as well as the 1986 film starring Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, and Harrison Ford. Three of the 14 tracks are short interludes consisting of vocal samples from film, each showcasing a different of the film’s stars. Once solution to the deep malaise of the present seems to be a retreat into nostalgia, but Landmarks interest in The Mosquito Coast works just as well as a warning of the dangers of nostalgia. While we may empathize with the distrust of consumerism and bleak outlook on the future, the hubris of Allie, Harrison Ford’s inventor, should be enough to warn of the dangers of trying to build utopia on the fantasy of the primitive. The general sense of foreboding, critique of romantic retreat into individualism and colonialism, seems well suited to the present moment."
-Joseph Sannicandro, A Closer Listen

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released February 5, 2018

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