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Nashville based multi instrumentalist <a href="spotify:artist:5ohDCZbwO0TRUWJ8ZvkoD5" data-name="Christopher Sur">Christopher Sur</a> cut his teeth playing in a variety of projects. Former bassist for <a href="spotify:artist:2VHHku3eX08CttHKkF8fy4" data-name="The Early Evening">The Early Evening</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:4PACNYaYcYIUMrT9d9grWf" data-name="Sara Beth Go">Sara Beth Go</a> (under the name And, OK!, alongside his brother, composer and multi instrumentalist Jonathan Surratt), guitarist for hip hop artists <a href="spotify:artist:2CwUmIybp6G0dqkZvlfB2D" data-name="Spoken Nerd">Spoken Nerd</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1mJVGN9S2C6nXDGWNQVKqS" data-name="kidDEAD">kidDEAD</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:7sXi0Kr4b4fNHmjNk81CME" data-name="Brandon Brains">Brandon Brains</a>, and collaborator in <a href="spotify:artist:0P5A46weGYvcOk66DXFBfV" data-name="kidDEADcult">kidDEADcult</a>, Christopher has certainly been open to experimentation. His first love, however, is power pop, which gave rise to the project under his abbreviated name. A lover of synthesizers, the 1980s, and the power pop scene of 1990s Los Angeles, Christopher expresses those influences in his new wave project <a href="spotify:artist:5qnQZ2se7PA2tT0NnfOFji" data-name="Damn Tsingtao">Damn Tsingtao</a>, and under his own name. He's spent time on the road with many of the artists previously mentioned, along with <a href="spotify:artist:4yqr23aZWJMsctA1a6YTLf" data-name="Seth Moore">Seth Moore</a>, but spends these days mostly focusing on recording, production, and studio work, including his sister <a href="spotify:artist:2mx7ish5ocnyV92VEqdLte" data-name="Kristen Surratt">Kristen Surratt</a>. His latest release is 4 Tracks in An Apartment, a self recorded album tracked on a four track recorder while living in a basement apartment.