For his stunning debut release on Disco Gecko, Christian Wittman invites
you on an extraordinary soundscape journey, weaving different threads
of ambient and minimalist music to create Shadows of Fading Time.
The nine compositions on the album, his 49th solo release, explore the
concept of intimate chamber music, where delicate acoustic tones and
electronic sound design unfold to reveal a beautiful and poetically
fragile listening space, full of visions, memories and atmospheres.
A founding member of the highly influential French collective Lightwave,
who have been tracing a unique, creative path in the field of
electronic and ambient music since the 1980s, Christian Wittman’s work
is found at the transition between ambient and space music, with a
strong emphasis on sound design and textures.
"Shadows of Fading Time” creates immersive listening spaces infused with
fragility, allowing the listener to freely project his inner films on a
screen of sighs, melodic sketches and harmonic mirrors.
REVIEWS
— "I listened to your new album and think it’s a fine
and serious artistic contribution to the genre. I look forward to
including it in our fall/winter programming. " (Stephen Hill, Hearts of
Space Radio Program)
— "Christian Wittman – Shadows Of Fading Time
The sort of electronic music album that's perfect to head off into the
middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night, and, under cloudless
skies, play this while you look up at the stars and ponder the nature of
the universe.
I could actually leave it there, but for those with a marked mack of
imagination, I can tell you that this is a synthesizer music album,
where 9 tracks of rhythm-free, electronic, multi-textured, layered
musical soundscapes, drift, drone and float, over, under, sideways and
down, across each other and in various degrees of pitch and harmony.
A track such as “The Invisible Ones” tends to travel through a more
bass-y sounding sea of synths, deeply resonant but will with a more
cosmic upper end, floating about on top, while “Blurred Vision” is just
that, as it throbs and shimmers and is much more full-sounding, while at
the same time, still transports you to the farthest reaches of inner
and outer space. “Haunted Nights”, as the title suggests, is altogether
more eerie, with a sharper kind of soundscape, that's as bleak as it is
black,while the longest track on the album, the 9 and a half minute “A
Shadow Is Passing By” is, arguably, the perfect summation of the album
as a whole, ending on waves and layers of slowly unfolding cosmic bliss.
Overall, it's a faultless slice of space synth music soundscaping, and
manages to lose you into its evolving charms, with certainty, every time
you play it."
(Andy Garibaldi, INKEYS)
— About "Rustling Souls": "It's another interesting release from you.
Overall I like the unique texture on it, kind of rustic, great details
going on in the background. Field recordings, I presume?" (Beatradar,
curator of "Ambient Universe - Drone Explorations into the Unknown")
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