Erdesz, Robert - Welcome To My Brain 2 x CDs
SKU
SMP 2025/001
“We had to wait 22 years, so the Róbert Erdesz – Welcome to My Brain double progrock album by the keyboardist of Solaris, is really a long-awaited CD.
It was recorded by a true Hungarian progrock supergroup:
• János Varga (EAST) - guitars
• Attila Kollár (SOLARIS) - flute
• Balázs Szendőfi (MindFlowers) - bass guitar
• Gergő Gáspár (Péterfy Bori & Love Band) - drums
• László Gömör (SOLARIS) - drums
• Ferenc Muck (Djabe) - saxophone
• Zsuzsa Ullmann (CABARET) - vocals
• Edina Szirtes (Mókus) - violin
• Róbert Erdész (SOLARIS) - keyboards
This is a genuine concept album.
The story it is based on was born alongside the music and is being released simultaneously with the album, titled Welcome to My Brain.
Róbert Erdész about the album:
"I started writing the music in 2003, shortly after I completed a short piece of writing, a sort of science fiction novella titled Welcome to My Mind. In it, we connect with the moment of execution of a death-row mass murderer. But no, it is not about an execution.
The world he lives in does not tolerate the death penalty.
The intervention they perform on his mind is called personality alteration.
Through a special neurological trip, they navigate through his memories, associating feelings with every aggressive event that prevent similar impulses from surfacing—while simultaneously opening pathways to hidden abilities that had been suppressed by the previous aspects of his personality.
The music was born from this idea. From this whimsical journey through the mind. I sat down at the piano and, for nearly an hour and a half (similar to the story above), I randomly surfed through the melodies that surfaced in my head. Later, this piano recording became the musical backbone of the double album, so much so that I kept the original track, did not re-record or not clarify it. I arranged the instrumentation around it.
It was at that point that my musician friends, with whom I shaped the final character of the album, joined in."”