French ambient composer Christian Wittman drops deep-space ambient album ‘Andromeda’ on Cyclical Dreams
Christian Wittman
French electronic and ambient composer Christian Wittman has released his new space ambient album “Andromeda” via Argentine label Cyclical Dreams, available now as a digital release and on CD.
Recorded at Nina Studio in Paris between July and December 2024, “Andromeda” is built entirely from Wittman’s electronics, sound design and composition.
The album offers a long-form immersion in deep-space atmospheres, focusing on slowly evolving textures and drones rather than rhythmic structures. The ten tracks have titles referencing constellations, stars and deep-sky objects as you can see below.
About Christian Wittman
Christian Wittman is a French electronic musician and sound designer based in France, active in ambient and space music since the mid-1980s. He is best known as one of the core members of Lightwave, the Paris-based ambient project founded in 1984 and later reconfigured around the duo of Wittman and Christoph Harbonnier. Lightwave released early albums such as “Nachtmusik” (1990), “Tycho BrahĂ©” (1993) and “Mundus Subterraneus” (1995) on labels including Erdenklang, Crystal Lake, Fathom and Horizon Music.
With Lightwave, Wittman has contributed electronics, sound design and production to recordings that merged ambient, electro-acoustic and space music approaches, often involving collaborations with musicians such as Hector Zazou, Paul Haslinger and Renaud Pion. The group’s catalog includes concept-driven works like “Cantus Umbrarum” (2000) and “Caryotype” (2001), recorded for Horizon Music and Radio France’s Signature imprint.
Alongside Lightwave, Wittman has developed an extensive solo career with a series of solo albums issued in 2022, including “Slow Motion”, “Aerial View”, “Music for Cathedrals”, “Alien Landscapes”, “Procession”, “A Strange Light”, “Afterthoughts” and “Ascent”.
Recent years have seen Wittman work with labels such as Disco Gecko Recordings (with releases like “Shadows of Fading Time” and “Impressionism”) and issue a sequence of digital albums and EPs via his Bandcamp page, including “Dreams and Drones” (2023) and “Ambient Chamber Music” (2024). In 2025 he released “Acheron” and several other long-form works, recorded at Nina Studio in Paris. “Andromeda”, released in January 2026 through Cyclical Dreams, extends this body of work into explicitly space-themed territory while maintaining his focus on slow-moving harmonic textures and detailed sound design.
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