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Katy Shotter + Chris Holland - Fly away cosmicfan 64 views Katy and Chris rehearsing in the studio
Katy Shotter + Chris Holland - Eye of the Sparrow cosmicfan 49 views Katy and Chris rehearsing in the studio
Katy Shotter + Chris Holland - Broken glass. cosmicfan 43 views Katy and Chris rehearsing in the studio..
Chris Holland - 70s Korg Vocoder VC-10 'Spread Love' intro cosmicfan 109 views Introduction to 'Spread Love' on a vintage 70s Korg VC-10 Vocoder (a new song by chris for his forth coming double album ..available soon) WWW.COSMICHARMONY.CO.UK
Christopher Holland - Without You In My Life - Chris Holland cosmicfan 112 views Chris plays a song from his 2003 'Brother sun Sister Mon ' Album .
Clavinet D6 - Chris Holland - Happier than the Morning Sun - Stevie Wonder cosmicfan 397 views Chris demonstrating vintage 70s Hohner Clavinet D6 using Line 6 MM4 phase pedal with versions of 'Let the Good times roll' and Stevie Wonder's 'Happier than the morning su...
Dulcitone Demonstration - Christopher Holland cosmicfan 331 views Chris demonstrating his ancient 'dulcitone' keyboard with a new song he has written -
Christopher Holland - Time - Chris Holland cosmicfan 147 views A song from his 2007 ' Everything you can imagine is real' album.
Christopher Holland - Love Is The Answer - Chris Holland cosmicfan 164 views A song from his 2003 Brother sun Sister Moon album.
Christopher Holland - Other Side Of The Sky - Chris Holland cosmicfan 107 views A song from his 1999 'Cosmic Harmony Companion' album.

About Christopher Holland Songs

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Singer ,songwriter keyboard player.
Chris took up the piano as a small child growing up in South East London. He started piano lessons aged seven but soon started playing by ear (which was a bit painful at first).
He found it more satisfying spending hours on end in his bedroom practicing and recording his first song, Its Getting
Late' when he was just 12.Using a very old reel to reel tape machine and RMI electric piano that was handed down from squeeze. It was around this time in the late 70's that his elder brother Jools would rehearse with Squeeze in their front room. When they all finished and went to the pub he would sneak in and have a play on their instruments, including a brand new polymoog synthesizer that sounded something like a space ship taking off. His twin brother Rich would also jam along on the drums.

By his early teens while still at school he formed his own band B Sharp playing mainly organ and singing, featuring Rich on drums, James Butler (school friend) on bass and Lisa Covington and Lorriette Saunders on guitar and backing vocals who he met at a local party...They made their first TV debut at fifteen years old when they were spotted by Mick Robinson for a new show he was presenting for the BBC.

He left school at 16 to concentrate on the band, touring extensively around the country for a couple of years before being signed to Miles Copeland's IRS Label, releasing a couple of singles While The Goings Good and Tell Me Straight produced by Pascal Gabriel [S-Express, Inspiral carpets, EMF]

In between working on his own music he has continued to tour and record with various other artists including Green On Red, Squeeze, Stereophonics and Paul Weller. As well as regularly playing organ and writing with Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra.

In 1999 he released his first solo album Cosmic Harmony Companion (on Beautiful Records BT003CD) containing some of his earliest compositions and featuring various guests musicians including Sam Brown, Kim Leslie, Rico Rodriguez, Gilson Lavis and Pino Palladino. This self-financed debut was recorded in-between various tours during 98/99 but with limited funds to promote it confidently slipped into obscurity. A follow up studio album 'Hoopatasso' was released in 2002 in a very limited number of just 250 and was only available at live shows, This served as a taster for Brother sun Sister moon (BT004CD) which was officially released in the summer of 2003 to much critical acclaim, featuring Ash Soan (ex Del Amitri, Faithless) on drums, Lisa Covington [ex B Sharp], Ron Box on guitars, Dave Swift on bass and Sam Brown providing B vocals. This was partly produced with Laurie Latham and Ron Box and has a very uplifting and summery feel about it

Continuing to tour throughout 2004 with Cosmic Harmony as well as doing various solo acoustic shows and festivals, he spent the summer recording a one off project, A joint collaboration with original B Sharp guitarist Lisa Covington. Featuring 13 original songs and one very early unreleased Squeeze cover, using a wide range of vintage keyboards but with a definite ear to the future Butterfly Effect was released in 2005.

In 2006/7 in between touring Chris put the finishing touches to his latest album 'Everything you can imagine is real' released in 2007/8..Now in the studio again working on about 30 tracks for a double album.

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