Tag: Christine Ott
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Christine Ott Q&A
Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Christine. Let’s start with your wonderful new album, Éclats (Piano Works). How long did it take to compose all of the music? And how do you know when you have finished a particular piece of music, what is the conversation you have with yourself about it? ‘Eclats’ brings together tracks composed…
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Christine Ott – Éclats (Piano Works) – Gizeh Records
The majesty revealed in listening to Christine Ott play the piano is a reward in itself. Capturing moments of heavenly beauty and deep loss are readily translated in a series of tell-tale signs pointing to the direction of lost and found. Perhaps it is only the sound of the piano which can really convey the…
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Snowdrops – Inner Fires – Forwind
Something about listening to this latest collection from the collaborative minds of Christine Ott and Mathieu Gabry pitches the decay of autumn against imagined fragments of regeneration forthcoming this spring. There’s an inherently organic feel to it all care the instrumentation alongside an otherworldly fuse of electronics adding an edge of uncertainty. Much like the…
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Theodore Wild Ride – Theodore Wild Ride – Icarus Records & Consouling Sounds
On a final note this week comes a highly recommended album from Christine Ott, Mathieu Gabry and Ophir Levy collectively known as Theodore Wild Ride who have produced a magical blend of classical and electronic reference points linking each avenue form A-Z. At times this is haunting and melancholic at others soaring and heavenly. Listening,…