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ARTiST....: christopher willits
TiTLE.....: surf boundaries
LABEL.....: ghostly international
GENRE.....: ambient
SOURCE....: cdda
QUALiTY...: VBR / joint-stereo
SiZE......: 53,2 MB
REL.DATE..: 09-10-2006
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01] christopher willits-clouds forms
02] christopher willits-colors shifting
03] christopher willits-medium blue
04] christopher willits-love wind
05] christopher willits-orange lit spaces
06] christopher willits-finding ground
07] christopher willits-saturn
08] christopher willits-green and gold
09] christopher willits-like water
10] christopher willits-dive
11] christopher willits-yellow springs
12] christopher willits-the greatest rain
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TOTAL TiME : 37:29 min
California-based guitarist Christopher Willits
settles near the shores of pop with Surf
Boundaries. On his breakthrough CD, Willits merges
the patterns of his signature guitar sound with
treated strings, brass and five-part vocal
harmonies for a sonic vision that draws upon
elements of shoegaze, jazz, ambient and noise.
Recorded during the rise and fall of an intense
personal relationship, the album's spectrum of
emotions naturally emerged from the sea changes of
lovers' boundaries, and the ultimate necessity of
freedom and letting go. The vocal motif of the
aptly titled "Colors Shifting" (sung by Willits
and Ultra Records' Latrice Barnett) appears in
three variations, giving the album a rough
beginning, middle and end, while other tracks full
of electrified drones, intertwining melody lines
and smooth guitar loops weave into the album's
structure seamlessly.
Named "the center cell of a rather complex indie
rock-avant-garde electronic art Venn diagram" by
the San Francisco Weekly, Christopher Willits
proliferates artistic diversity in a unique
context. After known collaborations with Kid606,
Matmos, Brad Laner, Taylor Deupree and Ryuichi
Sakamoto, Willits finds a new voice on these
recordings. In these 12 tracks, Willits' view is
so broad that anything becomes possible inside his
unique vision of organic electronic music. The
process of creating this music was his most
mysterious yet: "I felt like i was just along for
the ride as I gave the music space to breathe and
do whatever it needed to do".
Buy me if you love me :)