Rudy Royster

« Chassez de votre tête l’image d’Epinal du complotiste, celle d’un asocial les yeux rivés sur son écran, guettant l’arrivée imminente des « hommes en noir » et commençant à se demander si, après tout, la Terre ne serait pas plate. Le complotiste n’est pas un paranoïaque qu’on aurait laissé en liberté, ni un amoureux de la vérité, c’est un homme enfermé dans un discours politique. Le complotisme a ses ingénieurs et ses idiots utiles. Il a surtout ses imbéciles. » - Rudy Reichstadt

Let me begin by saying that this only my third disc of the music of Czech composer Leos Janacek. (The other two being "Piano Works" with Rudolf Firkusny on DG Originals, and "Intimate Letters" with the Juilliard String Quartet.) From the onset I have been impressed by Janacek's compositional style – he seamlessly melds the passion of the great Romantic composers with the musical exploration and freedom of the early 20th Century composers, and in the process develops quite a unique voice.

It's hard not to have a good time listening to Iridescence. Rudy Adrian's fresh insight into the Berlin School of electronic music combines his sensual memory of the natural world with suprising shapes of glowing analogue sound. Coaxing classic warm timbres from his synthesizer, Rudy Adrian transmits the most cosmic of ideas with instinctual accuracy. Syncopated synth patterns beneath confident lead melodies rise out of vast cerebral preludes and provides each piece with its own unique contour. Detuned drones, shifting pads and elated harmonies give Iridescence an introspective quality and vivid dimensionality while the album's rhythmical cadence and lilting melodies provide a bright and lively focus. On a few of the pieces we hear the human voice, wordless singing processed with reverb and echo - a wonderful signature. Elsewhere, the artist's voice is expressed through his unrestrained playing, so vulnerable in its joy of discovery.