Christine Ott (born 10 August 1963) is a French pianist, vocalist,

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's band for eight years and played in classical orchestras for ten. She has collaborated with Tindersticks,

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. Ott has released three solo albums: '' Solitude Nomade'' in 2009, '' Only Silence Remains'' in 2016, and '' Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot)'' in 2020. She also composed the soundtrack for

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's ''Tabu'' in 2016. She has created several live soundtracks shows, including for Lotte Reiniger's movies and Robert J. Flaherty's '' Nanook of the North''. Ott formed the duo Snowdrops with Mathieu Gabry in 2015. Together, they composed the original score for ''

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'', by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, and in 2020, they released the album ''Volutes'', on Injazero Records. ''

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'' selected the release among its ten best contemporary discs of 2020, writing, "what's remarkable is how radically different Christine Ott manages to make the ondes sound on each track: from a primeval, guttural sound on the 13-minute Odysseus to a chirruping boy soprano on Ultraviolet."

Discography

Solo works

* 2009 '' Solitude Nomade'' * 2016 '' Only Silence Remains'' * 2016 ''Tabu'' * 2020 '' Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot)'' * 2021 '' Time to Die''

''Snowdrops''

* 2020 ''Volutes'' * 2021 ''Inner Fires''

As guest or session musician

* 2004 ''Tout sera comme avant'' by

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* 2004 ''Contre le centre'' by Mobiil * 2005 ''Le point de coté'' by Dominique Petitgand * 2005 ''Plays the Residents'' by Narcophony * 2005 ''Fragile'' by

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* 2008 ''Aux solitudes'' by

* 2008 ''Ghost Days'' by

* 2008 ''A l'attaque'' by Loïc Lantoine * 2008 ''

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* 2009 ''The dark age of love'' by This Immortal Coil * 2011 ''613'' by Chapelier Fou * 2011 ''Tels Alain Bashung, Aucun express'' ( Noir Désir) * 2012 ''Everything was story'' by Raphelson * 2013 ''Ghost Surfer'' by

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* 2016 ''Unworks & Rarities'' by Oiseaux-Tempête * 2017 ''Earth'' by Foudre! (side-project of

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live at St Merri Church, Paris, Video by ''As Human Pattern'' As member of Yann Tiersen * 2001

L'Absente ''L'Absente'' is the fourth studio album by French composer and musician Yann Tiersen. When French film director Jean-Pierre Jeunet asked Tiersen if he was interested in writing the film score for ''Amélie'', Tiersen was already working on ''L'A ...

* 2001 '' Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain'' by

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* 2002 ''

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'' * 2005 ''

Les retrouvailles ''Les Retrouvailles'' is the fifth studio album by French musician Yann Tiersen. Released in 2005 through Ici, d'ailleurs... record label, it features a number of high-profile guest vocalists, both French and Anglophone alike: Christophe Miossec ...

'' * 2006 '' On Tour'' * 2008 '' Tabarly'' / Pierre Marcel

Soundtracks

Personal works

* 2011 ''La fin du silence'' by Roland Edzard * 2016 ''Minute Bodies'' by Stuart Staples, Thomas Belhom and Christine Ott * 2018 Manta Ray (film) by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, with ''Snowdrops''

Collaborations

* 2001 ''Swing'' / Tony Gatlif * 2008 ''35 rhums'' / Claire Denis by Tindersticks * 2010 ''Les Salauds'' by Tindersticks * 2011 Claire Denis Film Scores by Tindersticks * 2011 ''Ou va la nuit'' /

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by Hughes Tabar-Noval

Ciné-concerts and performances

* 2012 ''

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'' * 2013 '' Nanook of the North'' * 2013 ''24h of a Woman's Life'' with Michel Druez * 2014 ''Stories & Légends'' by Lotte Reiniger; "Lotte, mon amour" * 2016 ''Iranian Tales'' (with Snowdrops)

Classical music

* 1995 Les trois petites liturgies de la présence divine * 1997 Les Adieux by

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* 1998 il Mantello, opéra by

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* 1999 Ecuatorial by

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* 2013 Les Innatendus III (Ed Mickaël, Nocturne ; André Jolivet, Suite Delphique ;

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, Symphonie n°2 pour orchestre à cordes)

Videography

* 2005 Live with

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* 2006 On Tour, Yann Tiersen * 2010 Carte blanche to Christine Ott, Neuilly Theater

References

External links

* Christine Ott website
www.christineott.fr
* Christine Ott SoundCloud
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