cryptic scenery is a project run by the german musician, psychologist & author christian h. soetemann and was founded in late 1994. over the years, cryptic scenery has released cds, cd-rs and tapes within a wide horizon of musical styles, mainly oscillating between a hybrid of independent/spheric wave/rock with (and at times without!) a dark edge, ambient and minimalist music. between 1995 and mid-2003, cryptic scenery underwent several band line-ups. since then, c. h. soetemann has continued the project in the so-called "solo line-up", which certainly led to even more varying sonic directions, especially an increase in the output of hypnotic ambient guitar music.

abbreviated discography:

seashore (1997, cd-r)

oceanic feeling (1999, cd)

being - six objects (2001, cd-r)

four crescent figures (2002, cd)

the singing machine (2003, cd-r)

music for museums (2003, cd-r)

ontic (2003, cd)

simrishamn (2004, cd-r)

sedatives (2004, cd-r)

long to kiss / escape (2005, split-7" with antenne (long to kiss) and cs (escape))

seven bars of silence (2006, cd-r)

atoms / (one thing) it exists / evidence / only (2006, split cd-r " requested abba to tutorial headaches", bsbta pop series)

being / the 2nd rest (2007, 5")

on the outskirts (2007, cd)

the radar society (2008, cd-r)

early morning haze (2009, cd-r)