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 -

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
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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.

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

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

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

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 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

Christo trivia

Charles Harness
Bruce Sterling
Clifford Simak
Frederik Pohl
William Gibson