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may highlights








Well that was a wild June...
1. Sunflower Song Contest
- I was one of 4 judges on a packed night of young songwriters. Storm Thieves Dave Everitt's daughter Meri won it.

2. Hinckley ACT club - (left - top) stonking gig with with Dan Britton at this great club. Great to play a duo set again with Dan.

3. Robbie Murphy CD launch party -
wow over 100 people - a great launch to a great CD. Govannen were his backing band.
"My Inspiration" CD can be purchased on the Oblong Music label page

4. Quadelectronic 13 - our first birthday - yay! One year of strange soundmaking...

5. 4 x Govannen gigs - including one with original line-up with Bridget McMahon joining us (left 2nd from top).

7. Big Session Festival - solo set - I was up against Oysterband and Adrian Edmonson and I still got a crowd! (left middle)
setlist - Finally, Alien Salad Abduction, Lifespell, Proud Of You, Rainbow Real, Alien Jellyfish Song

8. played at the final ever Phoenix Foyer Folk and Phoenix Foyer Jazz events as the Phoenix Arts Centre in Leicester closes. For 20 years this has been a fave place to play. I will miss the place and these clubs - hopefully they will rise again. 2nd from bottom and bottom left)

9. Halo, London - Dan & I ventured to London for a 30min set

non-work-wise was busy too
1. brother and nephew came from Spain to stay for 5 days - Space Centre, movies, restaurants, parks, etc...

2. London
to see Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen on stage in Waiting for Godot and also to see As You Like It at the Globe Theatre - both shows fantastic and highly recommended!!!

3. went to see Steely Dan at NIA, Birmingham
planet christo tv 3 - june
1. Radio Fox interview
2. Watching Rondo with Steve Cartwright
3. Brother Jules & nephew Mario's visit to Space Centre
4. CC & Dan & Neil @ Hinckley ACT Acoustic Club
5. Govannen @ Jules Yard
6. Quadelectronic 13
7. with Andy Nicholls @ Walkers Stadium function
8. Govannen ceilidh @ Hoby
9. Big Session Festival & Demon Radio interview
10. London trip - Southbank, Globe Theatre
11. Phoenix Foyer Folk farewell inc snippet from Andy Griffiths
12. Phoenix Foyer Jazz Farewell

summer live happenings
Groovy times just around the corner - Big Session, Weyfest & Gloostenbury festivals, opening for Eddi Reader and Dean Friedman.

Chris Conway solo

4th July - Criterion, Leicester
5th July - Allexton, Leicestershire - 2 jazz piano numbers with Leicestershire Chorale choir.
9th July - Loughborough Acoustic Club
23rd July - opening for Dean Friedman - 30min - The Musician Leicester
15th August - Paradise Theatre concert - songs and new age concert

Chris Conway & Dan Britton
31st August - opening for Eddi Reader at Leicester Cathedral
6th September - opening on main stage at Weyfest -

Govannen
8th August, 12th Sept - Joules Yard, Market Harborough
10th July - Smiths in Bourne, Lincs-
18th July - Ceilidh at Stamford Arts Centre
5th Sept - Gloostenbury Festival, Gloosten, Leicestershire
The Rain Garden

India CD
The Rain Garden - namely myself and Carl Peberdy finished our first album together in 10 years. India (see cover art left), part of Paradise Music label's Spiritual Journeys of the World series, found us back as a duo and with a brief to create the said Spritual Journey of India for the new age label. 2 of the pieces were old TRG classics from the 90s we never got round to recording. It is also our first album recorded multi-tracked in a studio. (Practical Candle Magic had a couple of overdubs only - other albums were all recorded as live). India should be out in a month or two.

Remasters of "Live" and "Cosmic Engineers"
With all the excitement of a new album it seemed a good time to get on with finishing the remastering and re-releasing of remaining classic Rain Garden music that was digitally recorded but released only on cassette. Carl and I met and decided to blend the best of our Live and Live 2 albums from '92 & '93 to make 1 new Live CD. Our quite avant-garde Cosmic Engineers live 5 piece album from '95 will be released in it's entirety.
Work has started on the live album and it is hoped to get both albums out on iTunes & CDBaby soon.
new escape route cd - now out

Escape Route - Columns of Herakles - more live electronics from this quartet - is now out on Auricle Music - more info here
This came out before Electronic Flights withoutn me knowing making Electronic Flights officially my 60th release.
in the studio




1. The Rain Garden - Sacred Journeys of the World - India
- Album is now mastered and is at the artwork stage
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2. Judith Silver - Gathering
- mastered album for singer-songwriter Judith Silver |(left top) and created an piece combining excerpts of her vocals with electronics. The album is a collection of ostly accapella songs, many of them Hebrew.

3. Bridget McMahon
- Bridget (left middle) flew over again from Ireland and there were more recording sessions in June for her songs album.

4. Web TV Series
worked more on the theme song and closing credits music for web tv series Raising Kayn. (left bottom) Shooting has begun and I am providing score music for 15 episodes.

5. The Rain Garden - Live
- mastered the album made from combining best tracks from digital masters of Live and Live 2 cassette albums.

6. Moonchants
- awaiting more vocals from Llewellyn & Juliana


7. Live Song Album
- recordings were taken from The Donkey gig in May but the Live songs album project is still on hold.

out there


Radio Fox did and interview feature with music. - I am working to get this available as a podcast on this website.

Demon Radio interviewed me at the Big Session Festival.

Celtic Reiki was runner up best new age album in the INATS new age awards (like the new age oscars.)

Spotify - do you use this free streaming music machine? Spotify.com. 4 albums of mine are available to hear on Spotify at the moment with more to follow. Ayurveda, Contact Light, Storming and Chocolate Bossa. Yes I get a royalty :-)

Electronic Flights CD is now available to buy and/or download from
CDBaby and Chris Conway - Electronic Flights
quadelectronic - a monthly improvised electronic music event.
Quadelectronic 13 - a groovy first birthday.
- 16 players - our first birthday - things were a little busy, and the music reflected this with a greater emphasis on sounds/noise than the previous ambient sessions.

a brief survey of the players present....
Lee Allatson, Steve Auxilex, Citizen Baxter, Victoria Bourne, Julian Broadhurst, Stuart Chalmers, Lucie Chapman, Robin Chapman, Chris Conway, Mel Fernandes, Simon Ferraby, Alan Freeman, Steve Freeman, Dylan Menzies, JP Smith, Jim Tetlow


Quadelectronic 14 will be on Tues 28th July
which will be our 1st birthday!!!

at 8.30pm the sumptuous Quad Studios, Leicester.
- it's not easy to find but here's a map
- it's free to get in (and out!)
- you might need to bring your own alcohol.

Join the Quadelectric Facebook Group to keep informed on Quadelectronic events.
new Quadelectronic webpage
books of the month
cds of the month
dvds of the month
book of the month

William Gibson - Neuromancer
cyberspace classic
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Ron Goulart -The Chameleon Corps and other Shape Changers.
short stories of a humerous and shapechanging variety

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ebook - John Kessel - The Baum Plan for Financial Independance
Great short stories

albums of the month

Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

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Gwerz - Gwerz & Au Dela
Robert Rich & Lustmord - Stalker
Tape - Luminarium
Marcos Valle - Escape
Simon Stockhausen - Trip to Asia
Jai Uttal - Thunder Love
Simon Stockhausen
- Trip to Asia
Lakshmi Shankar - A Life of Dedication

dvd of the month

Up In Smoke
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Klondike Annie
Sons of the Desert
Kismet Konnection

Star Trek Voyager
Season 4
Mary Tyler Moore Show S1
Frasier S1
Father Ted Box Set
youtube of the month
I want one!

Christo trivia

nicknames
CC, Christo
 
where born
Ann Arbor, Michigan , USA
first album bought
Santana - Caravanserei
3 fave albums heard in 2008
Markus Stockhausen - Electric Treasures
Circus Maximus - Isolate
Singer Pur - Memento
biggest influence on songwriting
David Crosby
best live gig seen
Kishori Amonkar - Kensington Town Hall,
London 2004
5 desert island discs
Terje Rypdal - Descendre
Terry Riley - Persian Surgery Dervishes
Kishori Amonkar - Born To Sing
The Free Design - Stars Time Bubbles Love
Eduard Artemiev - Soundtracks to Solaris, Stalker & Mirror
5 fave movies
Solaris - (70s Tarkovsky version)
The Time of Your Life
The Gang's All Here
Mad Love (aka The Hands of Orlac)
You Can't Take It With You
5 fave tv shows
The Prisoner
Star Trek (all)
Larry Sanders Show
Twilight Zone
The Addams Family
1st tv/movie crush
Mary Tyler Moore
5 authors

Charles Harness
Bruce Sterling
Clifford Simak
Frederik Pohl
William Gibson

fave food
cereal
fave drinks (alcohol / non)
vodka / diet coke
last big fave dvd/movie watched
Jab We Met
last big fave album
Simon Stockhausen - Trip To Asia
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