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.

Celestial are a Hong Kong based collective featuring a variety of contributors from all across Asia - including Nepal, China and Japan. The album reflects this mixture - with vocals in Mandarin and English, traditional melodies and instruments from across the region: - A song from 1930's Shanghai is backed by distorted drums and scratching, a traditional Irish tune is translated into Thai and backed by a Nepalese Trio, a chinese melody from Taiwan is played on Japanese traditional instruments and given a laid back drum and bass backing. 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.

One of the tracks from the album; "Plum Crazy (Version), has been selected to feature on "Cafe Del Mar: Volumen Ocho", SE Asian Version. The track was loosely inspired by a chinese traditional tune called "Plum Blosson", and features Shakuhachi over a reggae backing. The album also features: LiYa (a GuangZhou TV presenter) on mandarin vocals; Rita Tsang on English vocals (her song on ¡§Spirit House¡¨ - ¡§I Feel Strange¡¨ was a big hit in Singapore); Shakuhachi (Japanese flute) master Sunny Yeung; Koto (Japanese harp) expert Emiko Hisada; Erhu (Chinese Violin) soloist Hsin Hsiao Hung; Nepalese Trio Sur Sudha; internationally renowned Jazz Guitarist Eugene Pao; DJ Bodhi on decks, Welsh Rapper John Griffiths (of Llwybr Llaethog fame), Johnny Kember (Drum's Architect) on Congas, to name but just a few.