Celestograph, by The Glass Pavilion

Celestograph

by The Glass Pavilion

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Craggar The reviews say it better than I could, but this is a wonderfully emotive concept album with plenty of noise and ambience and melody to really hold your attention from start to finish. Pt VI is a highlight, building to some great noisy crescendos. Favorite track: Celestograph, Pt. IV.

james Bell Stunning music to relax to, works amazing well as. Cohesive piece.

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Celestograph, Celestograph, Pt. VI b/w Celestograph, Pt. VI (Ambient Mix), Celestograph, Pt. II b/w Celestograph, Pt. III (Ambient Mix), Consolation, September b/w Amber (Early Version), Distance b/w Summer, When the Blazing Sun is Gone, Open to the Sky b/w Willow Bark, and 1 more. , and , .

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1.	Celestograph, Pt. I 03:30	buy track
2.	Celestograph, Pt. II 04:50	buy track
3.	Celestograph, Pt. III 05:50	buy track
4.	Celestograph, Pt. IV 06:18	buy track
5.	Celestograph, Pt. V 03:53	buy track
6.	Celestograph, Pt. VI 05:16	buy track
7.	Celestograph, Pt. VII 10:56	buy track

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"It's emotive, it's magical and it's the kind of music that raises the hair on your neck... Heavenly, uplifting and tear inducing at times, Celestograph is simply perfect" - The Smashing Skull Sessions

"TGP's most complex album so far, with amazing loud crescendos, beautiful, calming melodies and an oozing, spacious atmosphere... completes a hat-trick of incredible albums... There isn't another project like The Glass Pavilion" - DAR Post-Rock

"deserves much more attention... This is Post-Rock but painted with the brightest palette, the most gentle strokes and the warmest tones" - Veil of Sound

The "celestographs" from which this album takes its name are a series of images created by the Swedish playwright and artist August Strindberg over the winter of 1893-94. Strindberg set out to capture images of the stars by leaving photographic plates outdoors overnight, without any camera or lens. When he developed the plates to reveal patterns of light and colour, he believed his experiments had been a success - but of course, they hadn't. The patterns were nothing more than the chance result of chemical reactions between the plates and their immediate environment - air, dust, dew.

And yet not only do these images have a certain abstract beauty in their own right; they also do, somehow, look like primitive versions of the Hubble photographs we became familiar with a century later. And so we're left to choose whether we look at them as pictures of the stars, or just random noise; a glorious cosmic coincidence, or an exercise in futility.

Celestograph was conceived as a single piece of music in two halves corresponding to vinyl sides: Pts. I-IV, and Pts. V-VII.

Thank you, as always, for listening.

- Ash

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released June 23, 2023

Written and recorded by Ashley Owens, 2022-23
Mixed and mastered by Stanley Howells at Deeplines

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The Glass Pavilion England, UK

The Glass Pavilion is the instrumental project of English musician Ashley Owens. It was begun in 2020 after a brain haemorhage forced Ashley to give up guitar and begin working electronically. As The Glass Pavilion, he blends virtual rock instruments with synth elements to create an atmospheric, psych-tinged sound with elements of post-rock and shoegaze. ... more

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