Adam Rudolph - Morphic Resonances - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The project features 8 of the most exciting and dynamic guitarists on todays music scene Nels Cline, Liberty Ellman Joel Harrison, Jerome Harris, Miles Okazaki, Damon Banks, Marco Capelli, David Gilmore, Kenny Wessel. What might a InchFuture OrchestraInch sound like? Composer, percussionist, and conductor Adam Rudolph has again created an illuminating and original answer to that question with his innovative Go Organic Guitar Orchestra. He convened eight of New York City's finest and most adventurous guitarists Nels Cline, Liberty Ellman, David Gilmore, Miles Okazaki, Joel Harrison, and Kenny Wessel on electric guitars and effects; Marco Cappelli on acoustic guitar and effects and Jerome Harris on electric guitar, electric bass guitar, and Damon Banks on bass guitar. Each of these remarkable guitarists are composers and bandleaders in their own right, with a collective musical experience that spans a universe of contemporary music, from Wilco to Cassandra Wilson to Ornette Coleman and beyond. Resonant Bodies is the 12th in Adam Rudolph's series of recordings for Go Organic Orchestra, his concept for InchnewInch global/creative orchestra that he began developing in 2001. His previous recordings for Go Organic Orchestra featured an array of instrumentation to bring to life his unique creative music. But for Resonant Bodies Rudolph envisioned a new kind of orchestral sound conveyed by a single instrument guitar, whose strings, coaxed by the right hands, are capable of unleashing an orchestra of different musical sounds. He says InchI try to do something new with each performance and recording. This time I wanted to experiment with a new kind of orchestration. I felt that with their range of sound and rhythm, these eight electric guitarists could generate a sonic palate that had never been heard before. I was looking for a new kind of InchFuture OrchestraInch - an

Following fresh on the heels of the critically acclaimed Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures CD on Justin time Records is Thought Forms from Adam Rudolph's 35 piece Go Organic Orchestra. Recorded over a ten day concert series last year, this recording contains the most accessible yet sophisticated music from the West Coast version of the Orchestra. 15 woodwind players, 9 percussionists, 12 string players and harp are conducted by Adam Rudolph in interpretations of 12 new compositions.

Organic Orchestra is a 25 piece ensemble consisting of 12 woodwind players (flutes, clarinets, bansuri flute, bassoon, oboe & bamboo flutes) and 12 hand drummers, all led by Adam Rudolph. The orchestra features many of L.A.'s leading performers from both jazz and classical backgrounds, including Ralph Jones, Alex Cline and Karen Bakunin. Together they create driving African rhythms combined with SLAM poet Saul William's poetry and singer Dwight Tribble on a few tracks, and middle eastern vamps circle around and around, combined with contemporary harmonies and scale patterns.