Originally from the south side of Chicago, composer and handrummer/percussionist Adam Rudolph has released over a dozen recordings as a leader and appeared on numerous albums. For the past three decades he has performed extensively throughout North & South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Since the 1970’s Rudolph has been developing his unique syncretic approach to hand drumming in creative collaborations with outstanding artists of cross-cultural and improvised music. In 1988 Rudolph began his association Yusef Lateef, with whom toured worldwide and recorded many albums.
Rudolph is artistic director and composes for several performing ensembles: Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures, Hu: Vibrational with Hamid Drake, and Vashti International Percussion Ensemble which includes percussionists from Indonesia, Iran, India, and Morocco. He also conducts the Go: Organic Orchestra, a 2- 35 -piece woodwind and percussion ensemble, which he founded in 2001. Rudolph recently premiered his first Opera, The Dreamer, based on the text of Friedreich Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy".
Thank you for the add Adam! Working on polymetric things (with the help of your book!)on Charles Moore compositions, would you know some one in Paris who can show me Cyclic Verticalism applications?
Gracias por la Amistad - Un placer contar contigo. Thanks for your friendship- It's a pleasure to be friends. Bienestar - Inspiracion y Mucha Musica. Saludos - Viele Grüße aus Elbenberg – Bendiciones. .......Never stop the beat....... Alvaro.
First there was Hollywood…then Bollywood…and now…Halalwood, Morocco's first and foremost digitalizer's debut album for Crammed.
‘Halalwood’ is a tour-de-force which puts gnawa music, dub, sinuous classic Arabic arrangements for qanun, flute & violins, electronic beats, rappers & MCs, big drums & crunchy rock guitars in a giant blender to produce something fresh and original… U-Cef has all the legitimacy & inspiration needed to navigate between cultures, without any prejudices, disrespect or fear: Born and raised in Rabat, he absorbed much of his native Morocco's multiple traditions before moving first to New York and then to London, immersing himself along the way in the Western world's electronic & rock scenes. His first CD ‘Halalium’ (2001) was a milestone in Moroccan urban dance music, and has inspired a whole generation of rappers, b-boys and pro-tools adventurers, from Tangiers to Taroudant and Melilla to Marrakech.
Featuring an exciting cast of high-profile guests including Damon Albarn, Natacha Atlas, Rachid Taha, Mirror System (Steve Hillage & Miquette Giraudy), UK Apache, Amina Annabi, Justin Adams and Moroccan rap duo Dar Gnawa.
