Schiller: Opus

Opus is a Schiller album whose shades and textures are inspired by classical music. It owes its freedom and melodic concentration to Christopher von Deylen s defined sense of being at home in the electronic world. His imaginative thinking does not lead to disorientation, but rather to an expanded, clear and panoramic view of the emotionalizing world of accentuated sounds, and rhythmic passions. Crossover is a term often used to refer to musicians and artists who diversify, and work in alternative genres. Christopher von Deylen clearly knows only too well that labels, and tags, only tell some of the story, and that the quest for compromise can lead to a dangerously seductive over-simplification. With Schiller, he has defied categorisation for some 15 years. Thanks to the compositional curiosity and the playful nonchalance with which Opus was conceived, the question as to whether the electrifying pulse rate of the new Schiller album represents a journey through the music of today or an exercise in time-travel through the music of the past becomes redundant. With Opus , Schiller has created a liberating new idiom beyond all conventions.
Michael Loesl