spirit house, by Celestial 天上

spirit house

by Celestial 天上

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This is the second pressing from 1999, and had to be re-released in completely new packaging, in a jewel case.

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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.	Vietnam 01:28	buy track
2.	Cang Ding 04:50	buy track
3.	Carrickfergus 04:30	buy track
4.	I Feel Strange 05:43	buy track
5.	The Last Gong Before Sailing 04:13	buy track
6.	Life's Greatest Tragedy 02:31	buy track
7.	Bio-Gravity 05:23	buy track
8.	When Will My Love Return 04:47	buy track
9.	Nepal 03:23	buy track
10.	An Bradán Feasa 04:00	buy track
11.	Trans-Mongolian Express 04:30	buy track
12.	I Can Feel It 02:50	buy track
13.	Cang Ding (Telepathic Remix) 04:47	buy track
14.	Trans-Mongolian Express (Black Dragon Remix) 05:24	buy track
15.	Plum Crazy (Black Dragon Remix) 04:22	buy track

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This, the first album from Celestial, was the introduction to Celestial's reflection of an east-west consciousness; an ethereal, trance-like soundtrack to a hip urban zen garden. First released by MCA (now Universal Music) in 1996, the album also reflects the pre-1997 cosmopolitan turmoil that was Hong Kong. It went gold in Singapore, and has now been re-released with a new sleeve design.

“Spirit House” draws on many diverse influences - Chinese, Vietnamese and Nepalese folk melodies, the sounds of Asian orchestras and the rhythms of metropolitan dance floors. drawing on the talents of musicians such as Hsin Hsiao Hung, Hong Kong's #1 erhu(chinese violin) player, Nepalese classical trio Sur Sudha, and world renowned jazz guitarist Eugene Pao, to name but a few. The music is a collage of many different styles: a sampled `70's funk groove loops beneath a timeless erhu folk melody underscored by ultra modern digital synth architecture; a 1930's shanghai song segues into a Kathmandu raga; sampled voice bytes from today's news broadcasts compete with dialogue from 1940's movies and a floating jazz guitar, an Irish folk melody is played on a traditional chinese zheng, with `80's analog synths and dub echo effects bubbling underneath; sound effects of trains, helicopters, bicycles, fade in and out of the ever present hypnotic, trance like rhythms...

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released May 30, 1996

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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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