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christo
jota
ambient - soundscapes -
loops
In Concert:
Christo Jota (synthesizer/guitar) & d:on:m (trumpet, keyboards, vocals)
24.3. Mönchengladbach - Projekt
42
11.4.
Hamm-Pelkum - Jakobus-Kirche www.pelkum.kirchenkreis-hamm.de
NEWS:
Christo just recorded new tracks with trumpet/keyboard-player and singer d:on:m
(kind of overtone vocals).
Listen to 2 new tracks -recorded
at St.Gertrud Church/Colonge- here:
There will be a new album and some concerts soon. Ambient Soundscapes,Electronic,
classical and spiritual music.ENJOY !
Christo
Jota - CD´s:
NEW -----------------------------NEW
"Klangwellen 1" (Soundscapes)--"Guitar
Looping #2"
-------"Mantra"
(Chillout, Ambient) --"Moondog"(Trance,Chillout)
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Order
CD at: chris@christojota.de (12
€ *plus 3,- € shipping/Versandkosten) or Download on musicload,
iTunes etc.
Listen
to the Christo music on:
www.myspace.com/christojota
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Christo has released
4 CD´s so far:
"Mantra" - Chillout,
Guitar-Loops, Ambient
This is a professional multi-track recording with guitar, bass, drum-loops,
synthesizer, devices.
(Digital
Download and CD - Label: Fuego - www.fuego.de)
"Moondog" - Trance/Techno,
Chillout.
Multi-track recording with guitar, bass, groove-machine, synthesizer, devices.
SCROLL
DOWN for the "Leaky Sparrow"-Review of MOONDOG!
(Digital
Download and CD - Label: Fuego - www.fuego.de)
"Guitar Looping #2" -
The beginning of a series with live-in-the-studio;2-track-recordings = Live-Looping.
Very exciting, spontaneous work with astonishing results. Mainly an old Fender
Squier electric guitar and a loop device (Boss DD 20).
(Digital
Download and CD - Label: Fuego - www.fuego.de)
"Klangwellen 1" -
Ambient Soundscapes
(Digital Download and CD - Label: Fuego -
www.fuego.de)
Internet-Blog:
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Christo Jota – Moondog
"It's the second full-length experimental release by guitarist Christo
Jota from Köln, and although he isn’t breaking much new ground with
this one, it's such interesting terrain that I don't mind revisiting this
particular sound. Guitar-Loops melting in all tracks repetitive patterns put
on soft synthiepads, on which the guitar takes off for some spacey melodies.
I loved his first release, Mantra, and this second work, Moondog, has nothing
to be ashamed of. To help you to discover his universe, let me say that Christo
Jota is inspired by people like Robert Fripp, Steve Hillage, Harmonia, Tangerine
Dream, and the looping scene with guys like Andy Butler, Zoe Keating etc."
( taken from Leaky Sparrow/Paris,France
)
Press-Review/"Moondog"
(new CD on Fuego/Selfdistribution)
"...auf
diesem entspannten und irgendwie abgefahrenen Album tummeln sich Gitarren-Loops
und Synthie-Sounds geradezu.
Das ist Musik für spontane und flexible Menschen. Sci-Fi-Sphären-Space-Sound!"
(Musix-12-2008; Printausgabe mit über 300.000 Ex.)
".... on this relaxed and somehow far-out album you can listen to lots of guitar-loops and Synthie-Sounds. That is music for spontaneous and flexible people. Sci-Fi-Sphere-Space-Sound!" (Musix-12-2008)
Mehr Presse-Zitate (Press-reviews / sorry, at the moment in German only):
"...sind
dem erklärten Anhänger der
japanischen Zen-Philosophie dabei melodische Meditationen gelungen,
die in die Nähe der krautrockigen Träumereien von
Michael Rother, Neu!, Harmonia und Cluster driften."
(Gig-Magazin, Münster, 1/2007)
"Auf
seinem Solo-Album erforscht er
(Christo Jota) die Tiefen von bildhafter Musik, was man in den 70ern dereinst
Picture Music nannte. In dieser Tradition
stehend, fällt es Jota auch nicht schwer, seine morgendlichen Zen-Übungen
und sein frühmorgendliches Jogging in meditative bis hypnotisierende
Klang(t)räume und Loops einzuarbeiten." (Eclipsed, 11/06)
"Im
Opener „Mann im Mond“ ist das ganz wunderbar, mit einer Gitarrenmelodie
die schon beim ersten Hören dir nicht mehr aus dem Ohr geht. Das hat
Instrumental-Ohrwurm Qualitäten
wie z.B. Michael Rothers „Flammende Herzen“ obwohl stilistisch
nicht vergleichbar.
Das ist bei „Mantra für dich“ mit seinem Schwergewicht auf
etwas mehr Percussion ebenso wunderbar, sanft treibend."
(Musikzirkus-Internet-Magazin,
3/2007)
christo
Jota is a guitarist and soundartist,
using loop devices to create repetitive patterns and ambient soundscapes.
This is kind of a multi-track recording in the moment (on the fly),
which is a creative and exciting way of making music.
I recently recorded soundscapes with my new musical partner Mathias Franz
Haubner, who is
adding trumpet und vocals (Oberton-Gesang). We recorded live with just very
few overdubs
in a church in the center of Cologne.I will pretty soon upload these tracks.
If
you want to get in touch, please write to: Christo
Jota
Have a nice day ! Save Tibet
What
is “Live-Looping”? (taken from: www.arthurleemusic.com)
It
is the art of layering sounds in a live performance using a looping device
that records/samples sounds and
plays them back in a “loop”. Once your initial “loop”
is recorded it plays back indefinitely, then you can
continue to record (overdub) more sounds on top of your initial “loop”
to create more depth and fun.
