Adonia

Recorded in a Paris heat wave by a Renaissance-man polymath, Adonia sits in that narrow window where mid-seventies prog fatigue met synth-enabled ambition—closer to the pastoral drift of Tangerine Dream than the clarity Kraftwerk demanded, but with a classicist’s restraint that keeps it from dissolving. Picart’s background in ancient rhetoric and underground journalism clearly shaped something that thinks as much as it drones, which is rarer than you’d expect even among the synthesizer crowd of 1978.

Recorded in June 1978 during a sweltering Paris summer, Ose’s Adonia captures a rare alignment of intellect, imagination and emerging technology.

At just 26, Hervé Picart was living three parallel lives: scholar of rhetoric and ancient languages, journalist for the French music press (notably Best), and guitarist /bassist in progressive garage bands.

Drawn increasingly away from British prog toward keyboards and synthesizers, he began envisioning a more spatial music situated somewhere between Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk. That triangulation would define Adonia.

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