happy valley 快活谷, by Celestial 天上

happy valley 快活谷

by Celestial 天上

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of subversions vol. II, subversions vol.I, retrospect 七重天, return to the dub station 返嗒, cloud songs, electric road 電器道, hong kong dub station 香港空轉, happy valley 快活谷, and 1 more. , and , .

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1.	Shanghai Nights 04:39	buy track
2.	No Thru Train 03:46	buy track
3.	Gao Shan Ching 04:29	buy track
4.	Smoke 04:40	buy track
5.	Plum Crazy (Version) 04:19	buy track
6.	Electric Sheep 03:31	buy track
7.	Nil Illigitimus Carborundum 03:40	buy track
8.	Chek Lap Kok 05:31	buy track
9.	Skooldaze 03:49	buy track
10.	Clouds And Earth 06:45	buy track
11.	Kanchhi 05:14	buy track
12.	Time Goes By 04:52	buy track
13.	Skooldaze (Slight Return) 00:51	buy track
14.	Tamuke 06:47	buy track

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Released in 2001, the second album from Celestial is all about love, life, death, madness, mixing up cultures and time signatures, the passing of time, pollution, weather, trains, planes and automatons. It’s not about a place - “Happy Valley” is a state of mind. The album reflects the mix that is Celestial; a song from 1930’s Shanghai, a traditional Irish tune , a Chinese melody from Taiwan; all taken out of context and underpinned with urban beats and dub effects. Interspersed by the ever-present sounds of modern life - traffic, clocks, and weather; the album is tied together by the ever-present sounds of modern music; samples, synthesizers and breakbeats.

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released June 30, 2001

One of the dubbiest tracks from the album; “Plum Crazy (version)”, was selected to feature on “Café Del Mar: Volumen Ocho”, (south-east Asia release). Inspired by a Chinese traditional tune called “Plum Blossom”, the track features shakuhachi over a dub backing. also featured: Liya (a guangzhou tv presenter) on mandarin vocals; Rita Tsang on english vocals; shakuhachi (japanese flute) master Sunny Yeung; koto (japanese harp) expert Emiko Hisada; erhu (chinese violin) soloist Hsin Hsiao Hung; Nepalese trio Sur Sudha; renowned jazz guitarist Eugene Pao; DJ Bodhi on decks, Welsh rapper John Griffiths (of Llwybr Llaethog), Johnny Kember (architect of the studios at Drum Music, where the album was recorded) on congas, and many more.

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Celestial 天上

Celestial 天上 are a Hong Kong based collective who have produced nine albums of Asian Dubscapes:

“Spirit House”, released 1996, “Happy Valley 快活谷” 2001, “Hong Kong Dub Station 香港空轉”, 2004, “Electric Road 電器道” 2007, "Cloud Songs" 2009, "Return To The DubStation", released 2014,“Retrospect 七重天”, released in 2016, Subversions Vol. I, and Vol. II both released in 2022. ... more

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