British composer and experimental music artist Christopher James Chaplin studied piano with Irene Denereaz in Vevey (Switzerland) before moving to London in the early eighties.

In 2009 he was invited by Viennese electronic music label Fabrique Records to collaborate with Thomas Pötz aka Kava on “Seven Echoes”, a concept album released and presented live at the well-known Art Brut Museum Gugging in Austria for the first time. There he met electronic music pioneer Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster, Harmonia) who later invited Christopher to take part in a “Late Junction“ live session for BBC Radio 3. The result of this second collaboration eventually led to another collaboration album, “King of Hearts”.

In the years that followed Chaplin and Roedelius performed around the world; these were largely improvised performances with Roedelius on piano and electronics, and Chaplin on synthesizers and orchestral samples. They captivated audiences in Paris (Silencio), Rejkjavik (Extrem Chill Festival), Sao Paulo (Sesc Belenzinho), Barcelona (Primavera Festival), Madeira (MMiFF Festival), Berlin (Akademie der Künste), Lunz am See (More Ohr Less Festival) and Vienna (TBA21, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary) among others.

October 2016 finally saw the release of Christopher Chaplin's highly acclaimed first solo album "Je suis le Ténébreux", which had been partly recorded at Air's legendary Atlas Studio in Paris and various studios in the UK. It weaves experimental musical influences around a sixteenth century text, an epitaph known as the Enigma of Bologna. The album features the voices of Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Christine Martha Roedelius, French actress and soprano Judith Chemla and Italian tenor Pino Costalunga, as well as the text and voice of Claudia Schumann. It was followed by a versatile remix EP the year after, including reworks by producers such as Grammy-nominated American composer Tim Story, Berlin-based sound and media artist Jana Irmert, <tfo> from Brooklyn, and Viennese electronic music producer Peter Zirbs.

Having been back in his studio for several months Christopher Chaplin retun red with a new epic solo album „Paradise Lost“ in June 2018, featuring the American vocalist and poet Leslie Winer and British tenor Nathan Vale. In a powerful soundtrack of winding paths through the (un)conscious, Chaplin again combines experimental electronic with chamber and contemporary music approaches.