A 46-minute collection of beautiful, reflective ambient music. Featuring Nick Prosser on baroque flute, it serves as a gentle version of Rudy's live performances. In the first half there are two up-tempo Tangerine Dream/Jean Michael Jarre - like tracks, after which the album becomes progressively calmer and more restful.
"I really, really like 'Twilight'" - David Parsons (an internationally-distributed composer with Celestial Harmonies).
"(A) great mix of ambient expansive textures and sequenced kaleidoscopes." - Glenn Deardorff ('Primordial Mariner').
"Two RMI-like tracks and the rest is Eno-ambient." - GROOVE Unlimited.
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Disturbed Reflections : real audio excerpt / 40 secs Watery Moon : real audio excerpt / 37 secs Summa Cum Laude : real audio excerpt / 30 secs Return to Fire Island : real audio excerpt / 35 secs |
A 43 minute soundtrack commissioned by the Southland Art Gallery and Museum for their exhibition "Art in the Sub-Antarctic". For the creation of this work, Rudy accompanied a number of artists to the Auckland and Campbell Islands south of New Zealand to be inspired by the wild environment.
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Winds from Antarctica : real audio excerpt / 49 secs Shining Sea : real audio excerpt / 21secs |
Described as being "like a compilation of the best of Brian Eno's ambient music", this 52 minute album is scheduled for small-scale international release in April 2000 by the Naxos-owned White Cloud label (headed by New Age composer Jon Mark). The music is similar to Twilight - reflective tracks with an emphasis on serenity, but this time no up-tempo sequencer-based pieces.
"Oh man, what a great recording ... the music itself is very intimate, spacey, and offers an overwhelming, mysterious atmosphere." - Bert Strollenberg
"Brilliant!" - Graeme Perkins (a composer awarded Best Soundtrack in a NZ Documentary 1997).