DR-66 : Christopher Bissonnette - 'The Wine Dark Sea' CD / DL
due out on March, 13th
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pre-orders start February 28th

The Wine Dark Sea is Bissonnette’s fifth solo studio album. The album’s title is derived from the writings of Homer, where he oft referred to a rough and stormy sea as “wine-dark”. Homer’s descriptions of colour are devoid of any reference to the colour blue. And any suggested meaning in his description of the sea point to the colour red. This apparent contradiction has brought much speculation about the significance and understanding of colour in ancient Greece. Keeping with the motif of colour, track titles on the album are based on references from contemporary artists and their insights on colour, form and implied meaning.

The album represents a shift for Bissonnette’s work, moving from an exclusively synth-based series of explorations to a hybrid of electronic and acoustic methods. The result is a rolling and slow-moving tide of tones and undulations. The textures are in some passages soft and mollifying but fluently shift to moments of tension and unease. The Wine Dark Sea is an aural allegory to sound and colour and our tenuous understanding of abstract meaning.

Mastered by Porya Hatami
Cover photo by Christopher Bissonnette

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CHRISTOPHER BISSONNETTE -  Color Deceives Continuously (from 'The Wine Dark Sea')

For reasons unknown but time will tell...
Multi-instrumentalist, all types of music, all types of methods.
Occasional collaborations with other artists.
Sometimes I post the sheet music if it's piano.
Lately, my favorite instrument is a TE OP-1 Field keyboard.

Dutch independent label focused on contemporary ambient / modern classical music.

I was born in Germany to a Turkish audiophile father and an American artist mother. I was raised in the wonderlands of Japan and Iceland, traveling often with my parents. In Iceland, to amuse myself in the cold lightless winter months, I used to sit for hours at my father's Panasonic Double Superheterodyne RF-B600 shortwave radio, turning the dial left and right, entranced with the sounds between the stations. I'd pick up the same morse code signals and pure static. 

At the age of 26, I started making field recordings. Then I had a bursting forth of poetry from 2003-2006, when I lived in San Francisco. This is when I had the idea to use my poetry to make music in Garageband and Reaper. I do it for a hobby, since I'm actually a fashion accessories designer, but hope to one day release an album or two!

https://www.instagram.com/egor_4u/
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CHRISTOPHER BISSONNETTE - Color Deceives Continuously (from 'The Wine Dark Sea')

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