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Rudy Adrian — Along the Coppermine Ridge
(Spotted Peccary SPM-2609, 2025, CD / DL)

by Peter Thelen, Published 2025-12-09

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Adrian is a master of cinematic sounds, every new release takes the listener along on some kind of journey into a previously unknown world, one of landscapes, mountains, forests, and snow covered bluffs that fall right into the ocean. No doubt that much of what Adrian paints with sound has been experienced firsthand I n his native New Zealand, which has no shortage of natural beauty to draw from. With over two dozen releases to his credit, ten of those on Spotted Peccary, his ‘natural beauty’ series in recent years have come to define his style, titles like Woodlands, Beyond The Sleepy Hills, Walk In The Shadow Garden, Coastlines and Atmospheres comprise a rich and warm blend of sweeping colorful electronics and other sounds that create the imagery that sparks the imagination and floats the spirit, and the eleven cuts on Along The Coppermine Ridge have a similar effect on the listener – one seems to flow from one slow-motion panorama to the next, observing, partaking, and becoming a part of the rich blanket of beauty that Adrian is attempting to define. The titles alone will offer an idea to spark the imagination, like “Serpentine River,” “Alpine Tarn,” “Ridgetip Clouds,” “Where The Skylarks Sing,” and of course, the title track – provide seeds for conceptual imagined vistas – sun, clouds, shadows, forms and internal feelings awakened in a world of heightened beauty. Melodies are soft but well defined, textures inhabit the shadows and surfaces that form a holistic soundworld with every part contributing. Each piece floats freely in space as it defines some kind of power from the natural world. There is much here to recommend, every one of the eleven cuts begs for a video, but that in itself might be limiting all the possibilities of the imagination. 

Filed under: New releases, 2025 releases

Related artist(s): Rudy Adrian

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