Name: A Light Below
Brand: Christopher Tignor

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WV200cd

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2019-10-11

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Secre­tly

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Sales:8.875

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843563118580

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WV200lp

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Black Vinyl

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2019-11-22

843563118573

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Artist

Christopher Tignor

Genre US

Electronic

Label US

Western Vinyl

Christopher Tignor is a highly acclaimed artist known for his captivating and innovative musical compositions. With a style that combines elements of classical, electronic, and experimental music, Tignor has created a unique sound that pushes the boundaries of traditional genres.

Tignor's music is often characterized by its rich textures, intricate melodies, and emotive performances. Drawing inspiration from a diverse range of influences, he seamlessly blends acoustic instruments with electronic sounds to create immersive sonic landscapes.

With an impressive discography spanning over two decades, Tignor has established himself as a prominent figure in the contemporary music scene. His compositions have been featured in numerous films, documentaries, and commercials, further solidifying his reputation as a versatile and sought-after composer.

"For my last record I built software and performance methods that let me wield modern electronic forces using acoustic instruments: my violin and percussion. Using custom violin processing, kick drum triggered synths, tuning forks, hi-hats, triangles, and bells, I created a space for truly contemporary and highly expressive instrumental narratives, often surrounded live with vivid video. Using no overdubs, pre-recorded tracks, clicks, or looping, this music dismissed electronic music’s grid, reclaiming time as a first order expressive element, flexing it, while doubling down on the performance aspect of this performance art. The music brought me around the world, from Tbilisi, Georgia to Havana, Cuba, and many points between, ever-refining my ideas for what might be next." "A Light Below holds those truths as, now, self-evident. From this place I departed for territory even more emotionally ambitious, more dramatic. I’m also pushing my instrument’s technique further. Slow, heartrending lyricism remains on tracks like "Known By Heart" and "What You Must Make Of Me" but there is also the angular, high-energy bariolage of "Your Slow Moving Shadow, My Inevitable Night" and the beat-driven hocketing of "I, Autocorrelations" where my violin processing creates “mirror selves that ricochet around me in a propulsive, somatic trance." "Since the last LP, my technique for tuning forks also earned some attention (and an honest-to-God tuning fork sponsorship). Again, I wanted to push the musical possibilities here, dialing those gestures in to create locked, luminous polyrhythms alternating with left hand pizzicato. I combined these methods with cascades of triggered synths in "The Resonance Canons", an 11 minute trip ending in complete vulnerability—as the tuning fork loses its resonance, I continue knocking it against my bridge, a final ostinato built from processed noise and resonant wood." "The goal of all this isn’t to be tricky or "smart". I’d hope the music already clued you in, I’m most interested in what deeply moves the heart. This world is fucked; we need new methods we can believe in to trade stories, to share laughter and pain. This record is a conduit for a lot of personal darkness I only hope gives some voice to your own. Along with my daughter, it’s also the light that kept me living, down there in the studio after she’s asleep, looking for new ways to be."

A Light Below

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