"PAR VENTS ET MAREES": A COLLABORATION ALBUM WITH ANDREW HEATH!

 Dear all,

I am very happy and proud to share with you my collaboration with my friend and fellow ambient musician Andrew Heath, released by the Dutch label Slow Tone Collage (a subdivision of Shimmering Moods).

I hope you will enjoy this album as much as we do! 

 

This immersive collaboration between the UK based musician, Andrew Heath and French musician, Christian Wittman charts a musical voyage that explores themes of great tides that rise and fall and of air currents that flow between lands and seas.

Dense clouds and currents of electronic sound are permeated with sharp, pin-pricks of percussion and modular noises with drifting piano, both electric and acoustic along with guitar notes that float above the maelstrom. All bound with field recordings that resonate sympathetically alongside the drifting tones.

Sometimes light, sometimes dark - evoking the contrast between the apparent calm of the sea, and the dynamics and flows that unfold, both in depth and in the air, creating organic and immersive soundscapes, aerial and underwater at the same time.


As well as many solo releases under his own name, Andrew has collaborated with artists including legendary German musician, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, experimental electronic and classical composer, Christopher Chaplin, Dutch ambient guitarist, Anne Chris Bakker, Argentinian composer Mi Cosa de Resistance and UK artists, Toby Marks (Banco de Gaia), James Osland and Simon McCorry. Andrew has also been commissioned to produce works for film, installations and various arts festivals.

Christian is a founding member of Lightwave, a French group which has been tracing a unique creative path in the field of electronic and ambient musics  (Erdenklang, Hearts of Space, Signatures/Radio France...). They have collaborated with Paul Haslinger (ex-Tangerine Dream), Jon Hassell, Hector Zazou among others, and created spectacular sound installations in places such as the Choranche caves in Vercors mountains or the Oberhausen Gasometer in Germany. The many solo releases of Christian chart musical territories at the crossroads of ambient, atmospheric classical and minimalism.