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Christian St.Claire

About Me


I'm a musician (drums, percussion, piano, electronics and whatever strikes me as an instrument or musical device)/composer/engineer/producer, started playing drums and piano at an early age, subsequently exposed to the formative influences of the late eighties, worked mainly as a drummer for several years, discovered the fantastic realms of percussion and electronics which led to assembling a collection of instruments as well as a beautiful recording facility, now writing out in the clear the pieces that have long been haunting me...moving towards the center focussing my musical obsessions and finding a language...currently on the lookout for a voice to travel with me - (...to be continued)
Having abandoned most other musical obligations in order to pursue this creative vision as intensely as possible I am still enjoying a long standing collaboration with my favourite diva and soulmate Mona Mur, on whose side I have been fiercely and enthusiastically struggling for textures, atmospheres, sounds, beats, structures and discipline ;-) for the last couple of centuries as it seems. For details on this and some of the audible harvest please check Mona's profile (see friends section below). CURRENT MOON moon phases

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Member Since: 21/05/2006
Band Website: Coming soon...
Band Members: Myself - looking for a congenial spirit with an angelic voice.
Influences: Symmetry as well as Asymmetry, Ancient Civilisations & Monuments, Medieval Manuscripts, Beautiful & Forbidden Books, Sacred Places (from stone circles right through to cathedrals), Isles: Rural England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Malta, Crete & The Waters Surrounding & Flowing Through Them. The Magnificient Cathedrals, Cloisters & Romanesque Abbeys of France, Mazes & Labyrinths, Japanese Gates & Gardens, African Ritual Headmasks, Dogon Statuettes, Bronze Vessels fom the Shang and Zhou dynasties, Irish High Crosses, Sundials, Forests, Holy Wells, Lore, Myths & Legends, Ancient & Exotic musical instruments. Art: Bosch, Lochner, Dürer, Cranach, Early Netherlandish Painting (van Eyck and van der Weyden in particular), Pre-Raphaelites, Wifredo Lam. Prose: Athanasius Kircher, Sir Thomas Browne, H.P. Lovecraft, Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami. Poetry: Shakespeare's Sonnets, Metaphysicals (first and foremost the unsurpassed John Donne), William Blake, Romantics (Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning, Rossetti), Stefan George, Dylan Thomas. Movies: Egoyan, Kieslowski, Yimou, Cronenberg, Polanski, Kubrick, Lynch, Fincher, "Tous les matins du monde" by Corneau (which is most probably the best movie on music I have ever seen)...last and anything but least - Music: John Dowland, Sieur de Sainte Colombe, Gesualdo, Guillaume de Machaut, Early Polyphony, Arvo Pärt, Ross Daly, Middle Eastern Music, Natasha Atlas, Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, Tori Amos, Cocteau Twins, (some) Cure, (early) Sisters, The Legendary Pink Dots, David Sylvian, Loreena McKennitt, Madredeus, Tuxedomoon, Placebo, Peter Gabriel - and plenty more.
Sounds Like: (...) simply the essence...heaven on earth. Pure and powerful - I thank you for your beautiful music Christian. ____________Absolutely beautiful. i am in love. (...) your music still completely stirs me. ____________I am so glad to have found you here on myspace because I love your music! It is so beautiful,haunting, and unique. I wish you all the best with everything and hope that you will always be inspired. I hope you have a wonderful evening :o) ____________(...) you do a great and unique work. ____________I am very much enjoying your music. Its mysterious flow is compelling and beautiful. ____________This is the perfect music to transform in - it allows me to come to a place of inner rhythmic Euphoria...I had to come back and listen. ____________Your music is sophisticated, fascinating, and beautiful. ____________I'm telling you, your music is like heroin. I want MORE! I came to your page tonight to listen to while I check my email and do other computer work. River came on first and I glanced out the window to see a beautiful full moon. No other song would have been as perfect. ____________Your music is so intriguing! I love it! ____________The language of this music can speak of far away lands of great mystery and wonder.. ____________Christian, I am so impressed with your work. It's gorgeous and I only wish I lived close to you because I would love to put down a harp track on "Secret." I love the interesting and sometimes unexpected textures. After hearing your music and reading about your interests, I feel you and I are of the same "tribe"!. Take care and keep making music in your own beautiful, unique style. ____________Thank You Christian for the introduction to Your celestial music. Pretty, poignant and serene. You have a new little fan. ____________Qadar is amazing - I love the sound of enchantment that it delivers. Once again I have fallen in love, Thank you for taking me to another realm outside my own. Much love, peace and joy. Can't wait to hear what you will be composing next. ____________Totally in love with your sound . . . Wish I was there. I'd play and sing with you anytime. So glad to be friends! ____________(...) your rhythm / arrangements are incredible !! ____________very deep and transcending you own your world i am transported ____________Listened to your myspace-songs for quite some time now, they create such a wonderful atmosphere, makes me thinking of mystic rituals and the lady of the lake.... ____________(...) so i had another listen to your soothing, sensual sounds.. ____________I like your music too - very ethereal and primal - makes my ears tingle with delight!! ____________Actually...I wanted drop by to tell you how very exciting your music is! I've not heard anything like it. It's wonderful to meet someone of obvious good taste and fine talent. You're fascinating! ____________(...) very beautiful ethereal sounds...exquisite.
Record Label: Willstartlookingforoneassoonasvocalsareon

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