Christina Vantzou is a Kansas City, Missouri-born composer and filmmaker of Greek descent based in

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. First becoming known as one-half of the audio-visual duo

The Dead Texan The Dead Texan was an audio-visual musical duo comprising Adam Wiltzie and Christina Vantzou. Wiltzie is better known as one half of the ambient project Stars of the Lid. Vantzou has since released a series of solo albums of ambient music comp ...

, she has released five albums of orchestral ambient music for Kranky. The albums have been accompanied by short films often making use of slow motion photography, arranged using "dream logic". In a review of her album ''No. 3'', online music magazine '' The Attic'' gave it four stars, describing it as a "sincere, sensible and reflective album."'' The Attic'', January 21, 2016
Christina Vantzou - No. 3
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Discography

The Dead Texan * ''

'' ( Kranky, 2004) Solo * ''No. 1'' (Kranky, 2011) * ''No. 2'' (Kranky, 2014) * ''No. 3'' (Kranky, 2015) * ''No. 4'' (Kranky, 2018) * ''Multi Natural'' (Edicoes CN, 2020) * ''Releasing Spores'' (Slow Moves, 2021) * ''No. 5'' (Kranky, 2022) CV & JAB (Christina Vantzou and John Also Bennett) * ''Zin Taylor - Thoughts Of A Dot As It Travels A Surface'' (Shelter Press, 2018) * ''Landscape Architecture'' (Editions Basilic, 2020) Other Collaborations * ''Christina Vantzou, Michael Harrison and John Also Bennett - S/T'' (Seance Centre, 2022)

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* Filmmakers from Missouri American composers Kranky (record label) albums Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Kranky (record label) artists {{US-composer-stub