in 1990, he began recording and performing internationally with CODEINE, with whom he played drums and guitar on 2 records for SUB-POP. in 1992, he left that band to pursue songwriting, singing and guitar playing with COME, who recorded four albums for MATADOR and toured internationally over the course of 10 years.

since 2002, chris has recorded four solo albums: the instrumental "RED CITIES" (ATAVISTIC/KIMCHEE/12XU, 2002), the solo acoustic "WANDERING AS WATER"(NORMAL, 2004), the film score "I WAS BORN, BUT" (ATAVISTIC/12XU, 2004), and the rock/vocal "INCREDIBLE LOVE" (12XU/ROCK ACTION/ACUARELA, 2005).

he has performed on over 2 dozen other recordings, performing as a member of the following bands: THE WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY, THE NEW YEAR, PULLMAN, CONSONANT, and THE EMPTY HOUSE COOPERATIVE; as a guest on recordings by COBRA VERDE, MANTA RAY, ROSA CHANTSWELL, KARATE, and VIA TANIA; and as an accompanist to recordings and performances by STEVE WYNN, EVAN DANDO, THALIA ZEDEK, ALAN LICHT, TARA JANE O'NEIL, crime writer GEORGE PELECANOS, and RHYS CHATHAM.

chris has scored and performed works with the KINO DANCE COMPANY (boston, 2006) and the DAGDHA DANCE COMPANY (limerick, ireland, 2005). he collaborated with playwright RINDE ECKERT and director ROBERT WOODRUFF on the award-winning new opera "HIGHWAY ULYSSES" (AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER, cambridge massachusetts, 2003), which was named the Best Production of the Year by THE BOSTON GLOBE.

chris scored LESLIE MCCLEAVE's dramatic feature film "ROAD" (2005), which won the award for Best Original Score at the BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. chris' music has also been used extensively on NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO and ESPN.

chris has performed throughout the US, Canada, Europe, the UK, Russia and Australia. in addition to regularly playing solo shows, he has been touring and performing in 2007 in collaboration with THURSTON MOORE (in a full band that is a side project from moore's work with SONIC YOUTH), TWO DOLLAR GUITAR (TIM FOLJAHN and STEVE SHELLEY), ELEVENTH DREAM DAY, DAVE DERBY, and KAHOOTS.

chris has been pursuing several new projects in 2007, including a new band called DIRT MUSIC with HUGO RACE (ex-BAD SEEDS) and CHRIS ECKMAN (ex-WALKABOUTS), another new band called FFLSHLGHTS with DOUG MCCOMBS and ELLIOT DICKS, and an album of pre-WWII blues songs with GEOFF FARINA (ex-KARATE).

(last updated september 2007)