Brooklyn-based musician Celes presents her new mixtape "Limit Break" as part of our brand-new mixtape series "evx-tapes".
The two segments, "Flame" and "Heart" feature an array of spontaneous and joyful field recordings, guitar improvisations and wind-imbued bell performances.
“With love and care to all my friends”
- Celes
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Selected Press
"Limit Break explores a range of minimal field recordings and guitar, drawing out an ambience that feels equally transportative and all-consuming despite its localizable sound." - AQNB
"Not to be mired in cliché, but it genuinely takes one on a journey. Bells, water lapping, friendly conversation, ambient wash and the crunch of footsteps combine to form the bulk of the first side, which is 14 minutes in total. Angry guitar intrudes into the second, almost reticent in its interjections at first until distortion brings it to uncomfortable but necessary levels. Those bells return to provide a coda of relief in the final stages of this trip." - Bandcloud
"Here, on Limit Break, Celes creates pieces to span either side of the cassette. We are invited into sparse conversations, incoherent dialogue, vague sounds of traffic, all with moments of accent from guitar, bells, and drones. It is the sort of piece that could be the diary of a day, and to transport you to a moment to be present in the field recordings. In their simplest function, the environmental sounds focus your attention where you may regularly miss them, and the musical additions color in a moment's mood." - Commend Record Store
credits
released July 15, 2021
Artwork by Mittens Wei, "Untitled", 2021.
Colored pencil on paper, 11 x 14 inches.
Cassette Design by Ioannis Nafpliotis.
Written & Mixed by Violet Celes.
Mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis.
Cacophonous mash of noise, electronic sounds and vocals powered by energetic walls of drums. Listen loud, jump often. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 28, 2014