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Caeli is spun out of the idea of skies and dimensions merging into a borderless being, boasting of a rich and vivid texture, at times carrying numerous worlds inside at once. During the recording of Caeli, Bára and Skúli would have long discussions about how the world is opening up and how this would and could affect music as well. They like to look at Caeli as a product of this openness - a crystallisation of freedom, exposure and transparency in sound.
Disc 1: 1. unum caelum [5:40] 2. cieli pesanti [13:40] 3. caelum apertum [9:57] 4. SVEIFLA [7:12] 5. caeli movendi sunt et terra [18:31] 6. anche il mare è un cielo [3:26] 7. I believe so [1:59] 8. SEIGLA [9:39] Disc 2: 9. anche la terra è un cielo [10:10] 10. soaring skies [5:44] 11. all heavens [10:27] 12. stretching skies [6:29] 13. anche l'inferno è un cielo [10:38] 14. harmonic interlude [2:51] 15. the heavens have no mercy [2:22] 16. gul viðvörun [1:53] 17. FORCE [2:12] 18. some sort of closure [4:03] 19. afterlife [2:59] Total Time: 2:09:43 |
QUOTES & REVIEWS
“Together they create dark, roiling sounds that are simultaneously elusive and harrowing, as rich striated creaks, moans, and spidery lines bowed by Gísladóttir hover over and collide with a shifting array of ominous, spectral soundscapes sculpted by Sverrisson with extended techniques and masterful electronic manipulations. These 19 pieces emanate from a similar, meditative wellspring, but the musicians produce an incredibly varied sound world that routinely belies its two-bass source with works that both capture the improvisational drift and seem to follow clear compositional paths.”
Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical: April 2021, Peter Margasak
“I found the work expressive and beautiful. More along the lines of a Deep Listening experience… Caeli is exquisite in its expression of layered textural nuances created between the partnership of the acoustic double bass and the electric bass and processing. This is an album that is at times darkly overbearing while simultaneously free and endless; it is without borders, almost frightening in the way one might dream about falling off the edge of a flat Earth or losing sight of the mothership while floating in space.” - Cheryl Ockrant, The Whole Note
"...Caeli is the most compelling new music i’ve heard so far this year." - 5:4
“Together they create dark, roiling sounds that are simultaneously elusive and harrowing, as rich striated creaks, moans, and spidery lines bowed by Gísladóttir hover over and collide with a shifting array of ominous, spectral soundscapes sculpted by Sverrisson with extended techniques and masterful electronic manipulations. These 19 pieces emanate from a similar, meditative wellspring, but the musicians produce an incredibly varied sound world that routinely belies its two-bass source with works that both capture the improvisational drift and seem to follow clear compositional paths.”
Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical: April 2021, Peter Margasak
“I found the work expressive and beautiful. More along the lines of a Deep Listening experience… Caeli is exquisite in its expression of layered textural nuances created between the partnership of the acoustic double bass and the electric bass and processing. This is an album that is at times darkly overbearing while simultaneously free and endless; it is without borders, almost frightening in the way one might dream about falling off the edge of a flat Earth or losing sight of the mothership while floating in space.” - Cheryl Ockrant, The Whole Note
"...Caeli is the most compelling new music i’ve heard so far this year." - 5:4