Here is an interview of Jordan Rudess, virtuoso keyboard player from the band Dream Theater. It was conducted by my friend Kevin Deplanche and I and was originally published in French in the magazine Nightfall In Metal Earth. Big thanks to Kev for giving me the opportunity to meet this quiet, yet thoroughly nice man.

The interview focuses on Jordan’s latest releases; a solo album called The Road Home containing covers of his favourite progressive songs and another one, Liquid Trio Experiment: Spontaneous Combustion containing some of the jams sessions that occurred between himself, Mike Portnoy and bass legend Tony Levin while they were recording the second Liquid Tension Experiment album.

This is a fantastic  demolition of irrational and new age thinking through a very cool song/poem format told by Tim Michin. One of its merits, besides being very funny, is that it contains almost every important argument when it comes to explaning rational thinking. I must admit that the rant format pleases my tatses very much too...

Keisho is a shamisen player (Chikuzan style Tsugaru) who makes a point of preserving classics while pursuing his original style, outside the mold of traditional art, via collaborations with artists from different musical fields. Keisho's unorthodox performance style is now gaining great public attention.

In many ways, High Sphere was my first serious attempt at making music. This was also a great opportunity to discover many things about music thanks to the experience of fellow members. This formation had a huge impact on my musical skills inspiring and challenging each other, we managed to reach a very high musical standard which could be seen very clearly on stage.