Adam Rudolph - Thought Forms-Go: Organic Orchestra - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Visionary composer and percussionist Adam Rudolph draws inspiration from Jo Ha Kyu, the spiritual concept behind Japanese Noh theater, for imaginative new album Focus and Field, featuring a stunning 8-piece offshoot from Rudolph's ground-breaking Go Organic Orchestra. Rudolph describes his approach, InchWith every record and every concert, I'm always trying to do something I've never done before.Inch Rudolph accomplishes that daunting goal yet again with his breathtaking new album Focus and Field. The new 8-piece ensemble, an offshoot of his Go Organic Orchestra, gathered for a mesmerizing performance at New York City's vaunted Roulette last March, mere days before the world seemed to stop with the impact of the global pandemic. The fragile yet utterly captivating mood summoned by Rudolph and his ensemble seems in retrospect to be prescient, a stunning showcase of the healing and communal powers of spontaneous composition. The core elements that Rudolph employs on Focus and Field will be familiar to followers of Go Organic Orchestra - Cosmograms, the evocative scores that resemble the spiral arms of a sonic galaxy and work like harmonic puzzles able to be assembled and reassembled in various combinations; Ostinatos of Circularity, the layered polyrhythms that give the music it's propulsive motion and complexity; along with illuminating passages written in traditional western notation, which can be cued at key moments but played with remarkable freedom of expression.

Adam Rudolph and Go Organic Orchestra Find the Dynamic, Beautiful Center of Globally Informed, Improvisationally Generated Sound a walled city, a map of the world, a spiraling call A mandala's meaning extends far beyond pattern and line. It does more than represent an ideal or suggest a path. It is reality, laid out in it's true form, for US to contemplate.Composer and percussionist Adam Rudolph finds a similar shape of things via sound, enlisting the Go Organic Orchestra, an ensemble of players who can be assembled anywhere, anytime. In the project's latest iteration, Rudolph has gathered his longest collaborating group of musicians based in New York, for a series of elegant, diversely textured pieces that form a Sonic Mandala. Following a compositional and conducting approach Rudolph has honed over decades of contemplation, performance, and creation, the group delineates a space where contemporary classical, jazz, and global traditions effortlessly converge. Though Rudolph provides matrix-based scores and a streamlined vocabulary of conducting gestures to guide musicians, ultimately the pieces spring from the intent focus and spontaneous dialogue engendered in the musicians themselves. Album Tracks 1. Part One (Invitation) 2. Part Two 3. Part Three 4. Part Four 5. Part Five 6. Part Six 7. Part Seven (Slow) 8. Part Seven (Medium) 9. Part Seven (Fast) 10. Part Eight 11. Part Nine 12. Part Ten 13. Part Eleven 14. Part Twelve (Universal Mother)

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. Album Tracks 1. Breath [Compassion] 2. Intent [Compassion] 3. Reflection [Compassion] 4. Continuance [Compassion] 5. Affirmation [Compassion] 6. Circumambulation, for Ensemble 7. Blue Valley, for Ensemble 8. Lapis 9. Amber 10. Glass 11. Nine Moons, for Ensemble 12. Palms That Flicker, for Ensemble