Results for "Adam Rudolph"

Article: Album Review

Karuna Trio: Imaginary Archipelago

by Mark Sullivan
July 22, 2020

Percussionists Adam Rudolph and Hamid Drake, and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist Ralph Miles Jones play together as the Karuna Trio. These spontaneous compositions were built on a deep foundation of shared experience, dating back to their teen years, for Rudolph and Drake; Rudolph and Jones later played together in the Eternal Wind quintet. The concept here is that the ...

Article: Album Review

Go: Organic Orchestra & Brooklyn Raga Massive: Ragmala: A Garland of Ragas

by Angelo Leonardi
July 13, 2020

Questo magistrale doppio album di Adam Rudolph nasce dalla collaborazione tra la sua Go: Organic Orchestra e il collettivo Brooklyn Raga Massive. Venti appassionanti brani che realizzano il monumento finale (ma certo non conclusivo) della quarantennale attività del percussionista dedita all'incontro tra musiche afro-americane, africane e asiatiche. Anche se Rudolph è considerato uno dei maestri della ...

Article: Album Review

Adam Rudolph / Ralph M. Jones / Hamid Drake: Imaginary Archipelago

by Mark Corroto
June 18, 2020

Often the music of Adam Rudolph can be a bit intimidating. An authority in Afro-Cuban, Indian, West Africa musics and jazz, Rudolph's performances remind budding ethnomusicologists and jazz critics their knowledge inhabits a very provincial realm. Luckily that intimidation is reserved to academics and writers. The remaining listening audience is free to enjoy these sounds associated ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Musical Travelogues: May 2020

by Geno Thackara
May 28, 2020

Gregoire Maret and Romain Collin w. Bill Frisell Americana ACT Music 2020 The sound lives up to the title; this is a thoughtful, airy yet soulful outing that sounds just the way a wide-open prairie landscape looks. If it seems a bit odd that Americana comes from a European duo, wonder ...

Musician

Adam Rudolph

Born: September 12, 1955

For the past four decades composer, improviser and percussionist Adam Rudolph has performed extensively in concert throughout North & South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Rudolph has been hailed as "a pioneer in world music" by the NY Times and "a master percussionist" by Musician magazine. He has released over 25 recordings under his own name, featuring his compositions and percussion work. Rudolph composes for his ensembles Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures, Hu: Vibrational percussion group, and Go: Organic Orchestra, an 18 to 54 piece group for which he has developed an original music notation and conducting system

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Go: Organic Orchestra and Brooklyn Raga Massive - RAGMALA

Featuring the music of Adam Rudolph
Duration: 8:09
January 22, 2020

World music pioneer Adam Rudolph and his groundbreaking Go: Organic Orchestra join forces with Brooklyn Raga Massive to create the monumental new album, Ragmala – A Garland of Ragas (Meta Records). Ragmala bridges generations, cultures and traditions in a deep-rooted, forward-looking sound born of 21st-century innovation and hybrid voices. Epic in scale and ambition, the project features 40 world-class musicians including Gnawa master musician Hassan Hakmoun, legendary drummer/percussionist Hamid Drake, forward-thinking cornetist Graham Haynes, and tradition-blurring flutist Kaoru Watanabe combining forces with Brooklyn Raga Massive’s Trina Basu, Jay Gandhi, Samarth Nagakar, and many others.

Article: Interview

Adam Rudolph: Ragmala and Prototypical Music

by Franz A. Matzner
January 10, 2020

Adam Rudolph has been seeking to push the boundaries of musical creativity for decades, developing a unique concept of composition, ensemble interaction, and conducting. As many writers have commented, his music resists critical commentary due to its prototypical nature. Said another way, Rudolph's music doesn't sound like anything else, and its antecedents are so varied that ...

Album

Ragmala: A Garland of Ragas

By Adam Rudolph

Label: Meta Records
Released: 2019
Track listing:
CD 1:
Mousa Azure; Rotations; Ecliptic; Savannahs; Shantha; Wandering Star; Ascent to Now; Lamentations; Dialectic; Thirteen Moons.
CD 2:
Glare of the Tiger; Reflective; Seven Pearls; We Grieve; Chakawali; Turiya; Syntactic Journey; Sunset Lake; Africa 21; Gone to Earth.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Avram Fefer, Harris Eisenstadt, Satoko Fujii & Joe Fonda and More

by Maurice Hogue
December 18, 2019

You can always count on Clean Feed Records for great music, and this episode features some tunes from recent releases on the Portuguese label's catalogue. Saxophonist Avram Fefer adds Marc Ribot to his usual trio and the results on Testament are fantastic. Pianist Zack Clarke steps back to a traditional piano trio format, but the music ...

Article: Year in Review

Mark Sullivan’s Best Releases of 2019

by Mark Sullivan
December 17, 2019

Another year, another diverse group of releases. There were an unusual percentage of albums outside of jazz for me this year, for whatever reason. Although I opted not to review any albums by pianist/composer Satoko Fujii, she released five diverse projects—even after her 2018 marathon of an album a month to celebrate her 60th birthday—so I ...