Frozen Lands by Christian Wittman

My new album draws its inspiration from the landscapes and vast frozen expanses of the Northern countries - Canada, Norway, Siberia, Iceland.

It is the second step of a journey that started with "Misty Lands".

It is a music of atmospheres and climates, where I am experimenting with a new sound, a new aesthetic compared to my previous recordings.

"Frozen Lands" is at the confluence of the neo-classical minimalism of composers like Olafur Arnalds, of drones and hazy ambient soundscapes.

I also revive certain orientations of Lightwave, since "Tycho Brahe" and "Mundus Subterraneus", orientations fully assumed with "Caryotype" and "Bleue comme une orange", with a sound and an aesthetic close to classical chamber music, with a contemporary touch.

"Frozen Lands" is a contemplative and introspective music, slowly flying over the immense snowy expanses of the steppes and taigas in the Great North, mingling with the murmurs of the winds.

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REVIEWS

•• ""I really appreciate the harmonic structure and the arrangement... . No doubts about your talent " (about "White Wilderness") Ocean Eyes, Playlist curator.

•• CHRISTIAN WITTMAN – Sound Painting 1 Album
CHRISTIAN WITTMAN – Frozen Lands Album
Arguably,for “Sound Painting”, the simplest review I've done in ages.........
...as it's 41 minutes of pure, slowly unfolding, multi-layered, constantly travelling, cosmic synthesizer music, without a rhythm, tune or melody line in sight.
Occasionally a few light piano notes will add to the effect, and even a cello-like sound on “The Painter's Palette”, the nearest we get to anything rhythmic, but overall, it's a superb example of electronic space drift, sonically warm while at the same time, sparingly stark but blissfully riveting.
That's it.....you don't need any more.....but you do need this.....

As to “Frozen Lands”......well, more of the same.....although in many ways, quite different, as here, living up to its name, the soundscapes are altogether more abstract, not dissonant or awakward, but decidedly conjuring images of icy wastelands in a stripped down electronic drift, yet still managing to have a heart at the nucleus of it all.

In a world of synthesizer music, where there are many many artists and bands doing the whole cosmic space music thing......and you can have too much of a good thing, even in a genre such as this.....what I love about these is that the tracks are not overly lengthy, the ideas flow into one another, by and large, and it's varied enough to be riveting."

ANDY GARIBALDI, Inkeys (UK)

I am one of the founding members of the French group LIGHTWAVE, which has been tracing a unique creative path in the field of electronic and ambient music since the 1980s.

This Bandcamp page is dedicated to my solo work.

My music is at the crossroads of ambient music and "atmospheric classical" with a strong emphasis on sound design and climates.

Contact: wittman.christian [at] gmail.com

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