New Album - SMOKE AND ORIGINATION: NOVEMBER 21, 2006 Christopher completes mixing of next album, announces title and tracklisting: Toronto based solo artist Christopher issued the following release: 'After 5 years, the follow up to "wer Next Projekt" is complete. The follow-up album is called "Smoke and Origination".The mixdown was completed on June 25th and it is being mastered this week. We're hoping for a late October/Early November release.' Describing the sound of the album: 'If music had feet, it would kick your a**. But music doesn't. Therefore, you're safe. It's lop sided, it's clumsy, it's a confused bullying child. The best comparison I can come up with is that it's a "Pet Sounds" style of record. Risks were taken, for better, for worse. Unlike "wer Next Projekt," this isn't an industrial meets world music album. This is a loosely conceptual piece that has more in common with artists like Porcupine Tree & Opeth.' Clocking in at just under 70 minutes, Smoke and Origination is an ambitious work for listeners tired of the usual retro-obsessed pap of the mainstream. 'The album is in one key, but this wasn't a conscious effort initially. It didn't take very long to notice that that was to be one of the "themes" of the record. So I went with it. It was a challenge to write a whole album in one key and have it be interesting to hear.' Tracklisting is as follows: 1. The Summoning Vector 2. This is Your Plague 3. Sunday is Falling Apart 4. The Following Vision Was Staged 5. Spaghetti Terrorist 6. Sharp Knives 7. Frailty Scan 8. Purpose? 9. An Addendum 10. Wraith's Progress 11. Derivative Hearts 12. Again Christopher released `wer Next Projekt' in 2001. In the interim he has been scoring soundtracks, auditioned to replace JP Leppäluoto in Poisonblack in 2004, and released a mailing list only compilation called `Abandoned in Situ' in 2006. ----------- Christopher: wer Next Projekt - By Garry Sharpe-Young CHRISTOPHER has crafted the soundtrack to a movie no censor board in the world would dare grade. Imagine if 'The Exorcist' & 'Blair Witch' were really as frightening as all the hype…and that's just the trailer. Unquenchable, incurable plagues that stream on solar winds, grains of antimatter that can annihilate whole universes. Are you sitting comfortably? Are you getting the enormity of this yet? Opening track 'Nokturne' is all this and more, certainly not music to play in the vicinity of impressionable masses or along corridors of urine streaked padded cells. Its violent, its truly, unnervingly tribal and far exceeds the rush mere music alone can engender. 'Wakeuplove', submerging into Gothic-Pop, provides a much needed antidote just as the tunnel of white light seems inescapable. From this juncture the album takes on a whole new character, 'Un Joi' is positively pastoral, that until an avalanche of drum n' bass kicks in and simply buries you. 'Waiting For P**sy...Willow' teases the listener between bliss and ominous dread. CHRISTOPHER has pulled the Industrial genre out of the synthetic, cold digital quagmire it had become embroiled in post NIN and breathed new life into the genre. Indeed, is this 'Industrial' in any sense of the word? It seems criminal to place such a cheap tag on a vital, living (if bloody dangerous) beast such as this. Wailing Eastern vocal influences dominate throughout, interwoven with ethereal choirs. CHRISTOPHER has travelled deeper than the tack bazaars and Gregorian gift shops though offering up some real hardcore, under the counter cultural clashes. 'Wer Next Project' pulses with the raw unforgiving instincts that only the very elite of predators and parasites employ. A truly remarkable piece of work. One to listen to on a wind swept Skeleton Coast,…when the only hope of life left is in the batteries of your Disc player… Credit: Garry Sharpe-Young http://www.rockdetector.com/artist,33283.sm