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.

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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 Prohgram)


•• "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")