The new chrismortimer.com site contains music, pictures, lyrics, downloads, and a songwriting tutorial.
Hi again to everyone and welcome to the new look www.chrismortimer.com website.
Songwriting for me commenced nearly 30 years ago with the song "Sacred River", and the 2007 album release was an archival CD with piano/ vocal versions of a selection of songs spanning this time. The front cover picture of Piano Sessions 2 was taken by my father Mark of the famous river Ganges in India, and is a fitting image of what for me has been a journey through music - a mostly wonderful, colourful ride.
My main craft has always been songwriting.
The site promotes original music primarily, and my main craft has always been songwriting. I write all the time, and generally find melodies when nowhere near an instrument, for example when in the car, or on holidays!! To illustrate this point, “Angel” was written whilst on holiday one year in Phuket, Thailand. “Joshua’s Song” from Kerry Pitts’ “The Journey” came recently in Yamba, on the north coast of NSW. Speaking of which, I am really excited about this show. Kerry asked me at the start of this year to write two songs, and recently a third. The show will play at the Zenith Theatre at Chatswood in October this year, and “A Film’s Embrace” (music by myself, and lyrics by myself and Kerry) and the curtain call which we are still developing will be heard during the show. “Joshua’s Song” should appear with the other two on a CD that will be available to purchase.
"Chris Mortimer wrote three original songs for The Journey: 'A Film's Embrace', 'Joshua's Song' and 'The Journey'. the songs are resplendent with Chris' sensitivity, compassion and elegance. We are indebted to Chris for all the uncomplaining hours of toil, and for giving us such beautiful music recorded with such diligence by Chris and Martin Mueller. Chris - colleague and friend, we are truly grateful."
-Taken from "The Journey" programme performed at Zenith Theatre Chatswood in October 2011
The Very Best Of Chris Mortimer CD will be released very soon.
A brand new release is about to hit the online shop, called “The Very Best Of Chris Mortimer”. This CD is a compilation of my most popular recordings – requested originals at performances, on line hits, and songs that have attracted strong and positive feedback on websites including Soundclick.com . The compilation features an extensive array of musicians that I have performed with since 1992, including Ross Flynn, Lee Webb, Sean Rankin, Martyn Cook, Andre Shrimski, Lee Gray and Peter Gerolymatos (aka Pythagoras).
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Gig land for me these days still exists.
Gig land for me these days still exists, and generally I perform with Anita Hartmann. Anita mostly performs in and runs FABBA, an ABBA tribute show. So I have gotten to know their music very well in recent years. We do regular duo performances at Leonay Sports Club each month, as well as clubs and other venues all over Sydney.
CD’s can now be purchased through Paypal.
Last year, this site completely disappeared into cyber space, and was lovingly resurrected by Matt Topp, and restyled with some great new graphics. James Laird recently set up a brilliant, simple online shopping facility where CD’s can now be purchased through Paypal. And in recent weeks, Martin Mueller has given the site a visual makeover, getting gremlins out of the shopping page, adding a download facility, guestbook and other new features, as well as making things work that didn’t previously.
It is great to be back online, and I hope that you enjoy the site.
I hope you enjoy the material on the site, in particular the piano/ voice demos, and the selections on the playlist – all tracks are from albums which can be purchased, and this list will be updated every 3 months.
Love and best wishes,
Chris Mortimer.
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