Dream Ocean Strings, by Chris Conway New Age

Dream Ocean Strings

by Chris Conway New Age

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1.	Return To The Ocean Of Strings 13:34	info	buy track
2.	Immersion In A Harp String Sea 13:50	info	buy track
3.	Moonlight Water Zithers 12:34	info	buy track
4.	Undersea Utopia Of 129 Strings 20:04	info	buy track

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This album is the string-instruments-only mix of my album Deep Ocean Dreams.

My "Deep Ocean Dreams" album had 2 foundation layers -
1. “theremin waft" - heremin through harmonizer, delays, reverb, & filters.
2. open stringed instruments - zithers, kanteles, harps, plus electric 9 string guitar.
Over these, the keyboards, and other instruments were added.

I realised that the theremin & strings layers sounded great on their own, and relaxing without the structural elements of the keyboards etc. and decided to release them as companion albums. I doid something similar with my "Piano Dreamer" album, when ”Piano” (a piano only version), and “Dreamer” (a version with the background music and no piano) were released.

So I released "Theremin Ocean Dreams" on the electronic music label Zorpin at the end of 2023, and here is "Dream Ocean Strings".

With the strings, I mostly just play glassandi, but picking out the occasional notes or micro melody. But my aim was to build up ebbing and flowing layers of sound.

I first fell for open stringed instruments when I heard the Breton musician Alan Stivell’s Celtic harp. 2 friends and I, in The Rain Garden group, all wanted to get steel string Celtic harps, but they were too expensive. Then we found zithers, which were much cheaper, and found when close mic’d in the studio sounded similar to the harp. For a while we were playing concerts with our 3 zithers! Along with Carl Peberdy’s sitar, my 9 string guitar and Dave Everitt’s bass & guitar, tuning up took a long time - we had more strings than a small orchestra! We recorded a track with 3 zithers called "The Reflecting Pools" on our "Ritual Of The Sky People" album in 1999.
( theraingarden.bandcamp.com/track/the-reflecting-pools )

I hope you enjoy all 3 versions. Despite their different sounds and vibes, they still, to me, evoke the sound, feeling, and wonder of oceans. - CC

cover art - © Anneleven | Dreamstime.com

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released January 14, 2024

Chris Conway - zithers, kanteles, steel string Celtic harps, electric 9 string guitar.

track 1 - 53 strings
2 x 10 string kanteles, 2 x 12 strring zithers, 1 x electric 9 string guitar

track 2 - 90 strings
3 x 30 steel-string Celtic harps

track 3 - 29 strings
2 x 12 string zithers, electric 9 string guitar

track 4 - 129 strings
4 x 30 steel-string Celtic harps,
electric 9 string guitar

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Chris Conway New Age Leicester, UK

Chris Conway has released many new age, relaxation, albums under his own name plus in collaborations with Llewellyn, Govannen, Aramara, France Ellul, Clookai, Ajahn Achalo, and more.

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