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Immersive ambient composer, guitarist, and producer. Co-founder & Director of Envelop. https://christopherwillits.com

Christopher Willits is an artist, musician, and guitarist who creates immersive ambient music. As one of the core artists on the Ghostly International label roster since the early 2000s, Willits has continually evolved his craft, producing one of the most diverse and prolific catalogs within contemporary ambient music. Releases span introspective solo albums, widescreen audiovisuals, and unbridled collaborations. His process is an expression of love, inspired by an international audience of listeners, and the conviction that music can catalyze personal transformation and spiritual awakening.

Willits began his career with a string of critically acclaimed albums on the 12k label. The minimal sound introduced on those recordings remains at the core of his work: warm guitar tones woven into smooth, harmonic surfaces. Willits made his Ghostly International full-length debut with 2006 landmark Surf Boundaries. He’d expand his vision next through collaboration, working with Ryuichi Sakamoto (2008’s Ocean Fire and 2012’s Ancient Future), Zach Hill of Death Grips, Taylor Deupree, and, for 2014 LP Opening, with the whole band of Tycho. He also lent a hand in mastering the latter’s album Awake, composed the original score for documentary The Art of Listening, and continues to lead music production and meditation classes in San Francisco.

In 2017, Willits put forth Horizon, the first ever spatial audio release on Ghostly International. The album’s innovative 3D mix is mapped to surround listeners and align with sleep patterns, meditation, and other mindful practices. Willits is also the director and co-founder of the nonprofit, Envelop; leading a mission to amplify the connective power of music through immersive audio venues and spatial audio production tools. Like Horizon, his 2019 album Sunset utilizes Envelop’s cutting-edge technology to encourage listening from within. The five compositions move from warm to cool designed as a soundtrack to embrace the day's end; a collective letting go. Another skyward, pioneering project from an artist who occupies a unique corner of the electronic music universe.

Techno project from Santos De Castro, better known by his Psytrance project Deviant Species

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Focused on recording with fairly limited equipment but sometimes a determined effort leans towards finding the best in a situation.

A bit of history? I was in a band during the late 90's, We all split to pursue Fine Art Degrees, a least that's the short version of the story. 
I helped set up a small venue in 2001, I think it's still going, at one point it was on the map with old touring groups. I used to work the sound desk but the hard work was setting up and installing the sound gear, the actual stage, the lights and the backdrop, all minutes before the punters were let in.

I played various Bass guitars with a band between 2002-2017, we made numerous unreleased recordings, had a change of faces and a revolving door of drummers for a few years before getting good, played a few gigs alongside some really great bands.

At the moment I’m playing some revolting samba drums with a group, I love all the percussion especially I like playing the snare drum, some of the patterns I picked up from a book called ‘the art of the drummer’ in about 2015. Never quite managed the whole drum kit….
I’m singing in a Choir, they’re a protest group based in the States. They’re coming to the UK to tour, ending with the COP26  in Glasgow. 

I’ve also played Flute, broken Trumpet, bass, 6 string bass and I just got an electric piano.

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