Christopher Willits
Tiger Flower Circle Sun
Ghostly International
Christopher Willits latest effort, Tiger Flower Circle Sun continues his repertoire of airy, lush, electronic compositions. The San Francisco-based artist controls many of the elements used to build this album, from the whining pangs of his guitar to the vibrating bass rhythms that serve as the bedrock for this very alive album. To begin, Tiger Flower Circle Sun is unlike other touted summer albums. It is not a collection of pop hits; instead it is reflective. Once zoned into its forces, one could begin to hear the album really breathe.
Willits’ techniques implement nano-editing, the art of cutting beats up and put together until it sounds machine gun-like or a CD skipping. The effect of this is hypnotic and when juxtaposed with the soft electronic pads and gentle tapping of seemingly familiar percussion, the “voice” of the album is heard. The ambiance of the album is comforting, warm, as if being inside a womb, gestating until lulled into a sense of abandoned repose.
This work of fifteen tracks sounds like an incubator for a life form; a bio-mechanical offspring from Willits’ imagination — fifteen sectors of an organism, each operating as a stanza for a poem tapped into a sequencer and resonating as electronic sounds. There are songs which nearly touch the composition of a pop song, such as “Sun Body,” — one of the few songs featuring vocals — but before the song ends, its meanderings are burned up by…the sun.”Hands Connect To The Heart” is an example of Willits’ exploration of his theme; to illustrate and provide the soundtrack of connectivity with all life.
Tiger Flower Circle Sun is a personal endeavor, uncontrolled by structure or commercial viability and a work of art that intends to line all of the chakras together for an imitation of Kundalini.
Release Date July 27, 2010
Track Listing
1. Portal
2. Sun Body
3. Sunlight Is You
4. Green Faces
5. Uplifting The Streets
6. Plant Body
7. New Life
8. The Hands Connect To The Heart
9. The Heart Connects To The Head
10. Intend-Evolve
11. You Are Always Surrounded By Stars
12. Subconscious Transmission
13. Light Into Branches
14. Branches Into Flowers
15.Flowers Into Stardust [CD/Digital Bonus]
