Album Notes

Celestine started out as a minimalistic duo, with vocals and Rhodes piano taking center stage, back in 2001. Since then, they have developed their skills further and blossomed into a dynamic quintet with an impressive collection of songs to boost. Their debut album Between Bedtime and Sunrise contains newer songs as well as the very best of their back catalogue of seven EPs. The album was recorded at Roth Händle Studios, Stockholm, between the late summer of 2003 and the autumn of 2004, with producer Mattias Olsson (former member of Pineforest Crunch and Änglagård) lending his greatly appreciated expertise.

Based on the strength of home recordings, Celestine have contributed to compilation albums in the US, Holland, Spain and Sweden as well as receiving rave reviews from various online music sites. Swedish music mag Nöjesguiden has featured Celestine among their monthly staff picks twice - again, based solely on the impressive qualitity of the band's home-recorded EPs. Reviewers have made references to artists as diverse as Nick Cave, R.E.M., Jeff Buckley, Calexico, Tindersticks and Radiohead in attempts to pinpoint Celestine's unique sound. The many references suggest that this Stockholm-based fivesome have managed to avoid playing copycats and rather used their influences to create something truly original.

Now that you are given the opportunity to listen to Between bedtime and Sunrise for the very first time, we're sure that you will be able to find some musical references of your own before the last track fades out.