Christopher Chaplin live at MAK

Christopher James Chaplin and Luma.Launisch (visuals) with their only live appearance in Austria this year as a part of Vienna Art Week 2018. It's also the official 'Paradise Lost' album release show! +++ free entry +++

PARADISE LOST

"'Paradise Lost' is the second album by London-based musician and composer Christopher Chaplin. Following 'Je suis le Ténébreux' (2016), 'Paradise Lost' condenses experimental electronics into a chamber music setting, once again transporting us to intermediate mental and spatiotemporal states.

This album features the voices of Nathan Vale and Leslie Winer. Vale is a British tenor and reciter, who specializes in baroque singing. The US musician, poet and artist Winer is almost his counterpart: Jean-Paul Gaultier described her as the first androgynous model, and she has worked with Sinéad O'Connor, Grace Jones and Helmut Lang, among others.

Whereas 'Je suis le Ténébreux' was an artistic interpretation of Gérard de Nerval's poem of the same name, and of the “Enigma of Bologna”, Christopher Chaplin's new album translates John Milton's poem about the descent to hell of fallen angels into epic soundscapes. Nothing is clearly structured - instead we find ourselves in a dreamlike state of limbo. Moments of turbulence transform into musical states that collapse, roam through space, or grow into complex structures. It is a music of dark shimmering poetry that thrives on its own ambiguity" (by Heinrich Deisl, 2018).

Paradise Lost is available on 2LP/CD/digital:
http://smarturl.it/paradise_lost

For Christopher Chaplin's solo live shows the music is echoed by the projections of visual artists Luma.Launisch – assembled and processed in real time. Watch out for tour dates 2019.