Wolves and Horses is an ambient project by Belgian musician Christian Saint-Viteux. A self-taught musician, and former radio host, Saint-Viteux started to privately compose his own music in 2013, which has as main inspirations his greatest passions: fantasy literature, medieval history and Native American culture. Deeply influenced also by classical writers, such as Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne and Charles Baudelaire, as well as more contemporary ones, like J.R.R.Tolkien, John Steinbeck, Dan O’Brien and Cormac McCarthy, Christian Saint-Viteux manages to perfectly unite all of his passions, painting in his mosaic of creative confluences a dark scenery that masterly reverberates the cold desolation, the bold intensity and the overwhelming beauty of his ecstatic, but somberly deep sound, produced under the alias Wolves and Horses.
After contacting Christer Lunder, CEO of UAE Records, himself a skilled musician, main component of the ambient drone project Us As Effigies, Saint-Viteux soon felt at home at UAE. Soon both musicians started to combine their talents for a song, then their idea evolved to work together for an entire album. Their joint musical efforts and creative collaboration soon gave birth to a project, named FirstFallingLeaves. As their partnership only grew over time, soon Christian Saint-Viteux was incorporated as a staff member of the label for organizational purposes, becoming a main component of UAE Records.
When creating a new song, Saint-Viteux goes far beyond the ordinary means. Aiming to create an atmosphere able to evoke a whole new set of otherworldly inspirations, his art is moved by the goal to set free the listener’s imagination, setting a new pattern of rapture that, driven by a fantastic sound, captures emotions never seen before, and creates extraordinary worlds in your mind, in your heart and in your soul, far distant from the reality zone, as his main objective behind Wolves and Horses is to take the listener into another time, another place and another life, with the music working as an outstanding vehicle that gives you the passage to this fantastic alternative dimension of fogs and dust, kings and thrones, myths and legends, that Saint-Viteux amazingly creates with his inspiring art.
Imagining his songs also as a soundtrack for short movies, little pieces of imagery, or even brief moments frozen in time, his equipment and method of compositions also changed over time, to better adjust to the Wolves and Horses main perspective, and fit into Saint-Viteux’s dreamscape objectives. About the evolution, changes and development of his techniques over the years, Saint-Viteux has said:
“All W&H tracks are based on pads and soundscapes I create for every new one. I started with ‘classical’ synths but I wasn’t completely satisfied, so I moved step by step to more ‘organic’ sounds, using granular techniques and sound manipulation.”
Creating also all the visuals for Wolves and Horses, Saint-Viteux manages to progressively delineate a world of his own in several aspects, building for himself a cohesive artistic identity, where music is not only an appreciative parallel accessory, but a force driven to amalgamate his desire and his ability to create a new world, where the old patterns of boredom, tragedies, deception and grievance of ordinary life have all been long forgotten. With Wolves and Horses, imperial transcendence, lost kingdoms made of stone, gray forests foreshadowed by ghostly hallucinations and never-ending seas of haze set in your mind a perpetual state of freedom, where all invisible, but possible realms of life are in the domes of light, not as a mere possibility, but as a true reality, built by the spark of his creative ambitions.
Wolves and Horses music is the perfect vehicle to let your imagination wander around free, throughout a marvelous sound, that built whole new worlds, note by note. The first Wolves and Horses release was an homonymous five track EP, released by UAE Records on May 25, 2015. The first full-length Wolves and Horses album, titled “Every Moment Of Light And Dark", was released by the label in December 14, 2015. Currently, a new Wolves and Horses album is in progress.
Wagner
When creating a new song, Saint-Viteux goes far beyond the ordinary means. Aiming to create an atmosphere able to evoke a whole new set of otherworldly inspirations, his art is moved by the goal to set free the listener’s imagination, setting a new pattern of rapture that, driven by a fantastic sound, captures emotions never seen before, and creates extraordinary worlds in your mind, in your heart and in your soul, far distant from the reality zone, as his main objective behind Wolves and Horses is to take the listener into another time, another place and another life, with the music working as an outstanding vehicle that gives you the passage to this fantastic alternative dimension of fogs and dust, kings and thrones, myths and legends, that Saint-Viteux amazingly creates with his inspiring art.
Imagining his songs also as a soundtrack for short movies, little pieces of imagery, or even brief moments frozen in time, his equipment and method of compositions also changed over time, to better adjust to the Wolves and Horses main perspective, and fit into Saint-Viteux’s dreamscape objectives. About the evolution, changes and development of his techniques over the years, Saint-Viteux has said:
“All W&H tracks are based on pads and soundscapes I create for every new one. I started with ‘classical’ synths but I wasn’t completely satisfied, so I moved step by step to more ‘organic’ sounds, using granular techniques and sound manipulation.”
Creating also all the visuals for Wolves and Horses, Saint-Viteux manages to progressively delineate a world of his own in several aspects, building for himself a cohesive artistic identity, where music is not only an appreciative parallel accessory, but a force driven to amalgamate his desire and his ability to create a new world, where the old patterns of boredom, tragedies, deception and grievance of ordinary life have all been long forgotten. With Wolves and Horses, imperial transcendence, lost kingdoms made of stone, gray forests foreshadowed by ghostly hallucinations and never-ending seas of haze set in your mind a perpetual state of freedom, where all invisible, but possible realms of life are in the domes of light, not as a mere possibility, but as a true reality, built by the spark of his creative ambitions.
Wolves and Horses music is the perfect vehicle to let your imagination wander around free, throughout a marvelous sound, that built whole new worlds, note by note. The first Wolves and Horses release was an homonymous five track EP, released by UAE Records on May 25, 2015. The first full-length Wolves and Horses album, titled “Every Moment Of Light And Dark", was released by the label in December 14, 2015. Currently, a new Wolves and Horses album is in progress.
Wagner
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