Results for "Christy Doran"

Christy Doran

Born: 1949

Christy Doran was born in Dublin, Ireland and has lived in Lucerne, Switzerland since his childhood. His father was an Irish ballad singer, providing Christy with his first exposure to music.

In the 1970's he was a founding member (along with Fredy Studer, Urs Leimgruber and Bobby Burri) of the seminal Swiss band "OM". Tours throughout Europe, radio/TV - appearances, workshops, music for ballet, theatre and film. Over the years, his career has included countless solo concerts, in which he regularly pushes to the limits the capabilities of a single guitar. He has played in duos with Marty Ehrlich, Harry Pepl, Fritz Hauser, Dave Doran, Dom Um Romao, John Wolf-Brennan, Robert Dick, Ray Anderson, among others. After playing in a trio with Jasper van't Hof, he went on to form the "Christy Doran's May 84" septet with Norma Winstone, Trilok Gurtu, Urs Leimgruber, Rosko Gee, Dom Um Romao and Dave Doran. He has been a member of the "Peter Warren Quartet" with Victor Lewis and John Surman, and "RED TWIST & TUNED ARROW" with Stephan Wittwer and Fredy Studer (1985 - 1987).

LUCERNE

By Urs Leimgruber

Label: Creative Works Records
Released: 2026

Disambiguation

By Christy Doran, Imran Khan

Label: Between the Lines
Released: 2026
Track listing: Disambiguation; Ode to Johnny Doran; The Day They Came; Continuum V; Taal Pravaah; Mantra On An Irish Stream; Haute Savoie; Dark Slender Boy.

Sudpol

By Urs Leimgruber

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Fast Line; Gamelan; P-M_F/B; A Frog Jumps In; Behind the Eye,

Christy Doran, Imran Khan: Disambiguation

by Tyran Grillo
October 6, 2026

For Christy Doran, disambiguation does not entail stripping music of its mysteries. Clarity arrives through a lifetime of wandering, six decades of guitar compressed into a language whose elements have ceased to observe their ancestral borders. Blues and rock pass through jazz and free improvisation until each tradition becomes a translucent chamber inside the others, retaining ...

OM: Sudpol

by Glenn Astarita
August 8, 2026

Formed in Lucerne in 1972 by saxophonist Urs Leimgruber, guitarist Christy Doran, bassist Bobby Burri, and drummer Fredy Studer, the original quartet fused the raw voltage of rock with the open architecture of free improvisation, arriving at a sound they eventually dubbed “ElectroAcoustiCore." Studer's death in 2022, weeks ahead of the release of the anniversary album ...

Same But Different

By Christy Doran

Label: Unit Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Next; Twists and Turns; Instinct; New Outline-Shorter Cuts; Incognito; Same But Different.

Glacial Voyage

By Christy Doran

Label: Between the Lines
Released: 2025
Track listing: Breakwater; Inishkea Islands; High Tide; Belmullet; Whale Tea Party; Downpatrick Head; Light Frames; Moon Pull; Blacksod Lighthouse; Horizon's Invitation.

AIR Vol. 3

By Urs Leimgruber

Label: Creative Works Records
Released: 2025

Christy Doran's May 95 Sextet: Same But Different

by Ian Patterson
October 14, 2025

Curse or blessing? A festival handing a musician carte blanche for a one-off adventure sounds liberating, but the allure of artistic freedom can be tempered by pressure: what if the personalities do not gel? What if it bombs? Christy Doran, the Ireland-born Lucerne-based guitarist, has never been one to dodge a challenge. His entire ...