chris conway news


october

At last in October I got to slow down a bit - of course I got a bug - but I still got to slow down. After all that recording and gigging, Im now in the middle of soem BIG THINKING - you know, whats next - what do I want to work on.
There were some fun gigs played in October tho -

The Mosaic Club was as mellow and bohemian as always - I played 2 x 30min song sets there.

Monkey Love-In - (photo left courtesy of Harjinder Ohbi) a benefit gig for Monkey World and the hospital Renal Unit saw me play a 30minute set - including singing Monkeys on the Moon for the first time in ages. Dan Britton joined me ona couple of songs.

Have a Heart - another benefit in a college theatre in Shepshed - I plyed with Dave Kirk, The High Sierras and my old chum Vikki Clayton - top fun.

Oxjam - yet another benefit - this for Oxfam - I played a 30minute song set including Who Pays The Price for the first time in years!

Quadelectronic 17 - another fun time had with my theremin & gizmos & electronic chums.

Chris Conway & Vikki Clayton @ The Musician - this was a seriously great night - fab crowd - I did a short set and joined with Vikki & The High Sierras - see the videos of my solo slot -

website revolution - hear whole albums - download

Bandcamp widgets & downloads.
For some time I've been wanting to find ways of having the albums that I control (ie those on my labels) available to hear in their entirety online and for folks to be able to download the music.

With Bandcamp I think I've found it and in October I made a start with instrumental music. I will roll this out to songs albums soon. Then I can make offers on certain albums from time to time.

If you download from the widgets on the album pages then the money goes straight to me (minus Paypal's cut) - downloads are available in a choice of formats and the cover artwork should go on to your ipod.

These albums are now available to hear in their entirety online, and some are available to download FREE (those marked * below) - with others have a name-your-price download offer with a $5 minumum.

jazz/world fusion
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electronic

Chris Conway - Contact Light CD The Planet Scanners - Live and Scanning CD* * * * *

pages redesigned

The electronic page has been redesigned - go have a look - it's all gone dark!
- the individual electronic cd pages have been redesigned to match (except Scanning Planet 3) and have groovy animated widgets - yay!

The Rain Garden page
has been redesigned too to accomodate the new widgets.

tv & radio airplays

My tune Rendezvous with Rama from Re-Orient's Seven Steps to the Sun album has been played again on German TV - don't know the show. It was also played on US cable.

Bird Dancer
(frrom Re-Orients Indian World Fusion album) was played on Estonian TV.

Continuum's Neptunium was played on Spellbound Radio

raising kayn - web tv series

Webtv series Raising Kayn has been my main focus recordingwise - I;ve done 9 episodes so far - another 6 to go.

New episodes come out every Friday.


Check out the cool website for Raising Kayn and watch all the shows
To catch up on previous shows hover over the player and hit one of the rectangles at the bottom of the player
www.raisingkayn.com

november live happenings
1st Sun
1pm
Chris Conway & Andy Nicholls - Bulls Head, Clipston, Northamptonshire
jazz
9th Mon
-
Chris Conway & Andy Nicholls - Dos Hermanos, Queens Road, Leicester
jazz
15th Sun
9pm
Chris Conway solo 30min set - Peterborough Folk Fest, Goodbarns Yard, Peterborough PE1 4AS
songs
17th Tue
-
Quadelectronic 18 - Quad Studios, 75 Friday Street, Leicester
electronic
18th Wed
-
Chris Conway & Andy Nicholls - Moomba, Loughborough
jazz
20th Fri
-
Chris Conway & Dan Britton - The Linford Acoustic Club, Newton Linford, Leicestershire
songs
22nd Sun
-
Chris Conway and many others - Domestic Violence Awareness Benefit - The Musician, Leicester
songs
24th Tue
-
Chris Conway & Dan Britton - Take Thyme Cafe, Banbury
songs
25th Wed
-
Chris Conway & Andy Nicholls - Cactus Cafe, Loughborough
jazz
28th Sat
-
Chris Conway - Smiths, Bourne, Lincolnshire
jazz

 

youtube, facebook, myspace pages

New web pages abound - these are to try and focus the information about various bands and genres to those most interested.

Youtube
1. Live songs playlist
- there are 4 new ones taken from the gig at the Musician in October - they can be found ona new youtube playlist

2. Planet Christo TV playlist - all the shows in one place

3. Quadelectronic playlist - all my improvisations with other musicians at Quadelectronic events I have placed here


Myspace & Facebook
1. Govannen
have a new Myspace page (hear 10 full tracks songs there) and a new Facebook page

2. The Rain Garden has a new Facebook page

3. Chris Conway Ambient & Electronic
Facebook page

in the studio
1. Raising Kayn Web TV Series - recorded 5 episodes of soundtrack of Raising Kayn.

2. went thru Quadelectronic recordings from 2009 to make my annual selection of my favourite improvisations

3. did some work
for Celtic Harp player France Ellul's latest album.

4. did a remix of my song Future Beige and did some work looking at live and "greatest hits" song album ideas.

5. still sorting through live recordings of song gigs for a possible live songs album - am awaiting recordings froma couple of gigs before making final selection
quadelectronic - a monthly improvised electronic music event.
Quadelectronic 17
excellent - good sound - variety - lots of textures - 9 players - sax, 2 laptops, drums, cello, theremin, 2 electronics, hurdygurdy.

Quadelectronic 18 will be on Tues 17th November
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

Edward Bryant - Cinnabar
I re-read this strange classic

. . .

William Gibson -
Mona Lisa Overdrive
on to part 3 of Sprawl "trilogy"

. . .

James White - Futures Past
excellent short stories


. . .

ebook - John Kessel - The Baum Plan for Financial Independance
Great short stories
albums of the month

Arve Hendriksen - Chiaroscuro
ambient dreamy electronic jazz
. . .

The Flower Kings - The Rainmaker
The Flower Kings -
Unfold the Future
Within Temptation
- The Silent Force
Ozric Tentacles
- Jurrasic Shift
Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air
Alice Cooper - Best of
Jimmy Webb - Ten Easy Pieces
Produce/Griffin - Altara
Bobo Stenson - Reflections
dvd of the month

Dehli-6
. . .

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
Star Trek Voyager
Season 4
Mary Tyler Moore Show S2
Frasier S2
The Addams Family S3
youtube of the month
dream sequence from Delhi-6

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
STOP PRESS
T-Shirts - back in stock - see the foot of the shop

new tracks now up on
myspace

Practical Candle Magic & Just Be Real now on iTunes

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