Adam Rudolph

•BOOK + CD

• 32 page full-color booklet

An extraordinary work of musical and visual art has recently been released by Meta Records, the new Venice, California-based recording company started by world music virtuoso Adam Rudolph. A multi-cultural, cross-disciplinary meditation for the senses, The Dreamer employs unusual combinations of rhythm and vision, melody and philosophy to convey performers and audience along together on an odyssey from awakening to enlightenment.

Described as a "mythic, orchestral improvisation," the work is based on -- and accompanied by -- a beautiful booklet of 12 paintings created by artist Nancy Jackson in response to phrases she selected and adapted from the writings of philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer.

Rudolph is one of the first musicians to take spontaneous composition out of the exclusive domain of jazz and to encourage it in a variety of musical forms. A frequent collaborator with the legendary Yusef Lateef, Rudolph's enormous vocabulary of world music idioms, and his awesome mastery as a composer/performer, have made him a world leader in cross-cultural improvisation.

PERFORMERS::

• Kimball Wheeler - (soprano)
• Robert Wisdom - (narration)
• Susan Allen - (harp)
• Ralph Jones - (soprano & tenor saxophone, alto flute, bass clarinet, bassoon)
• Jeff Gauthier - (violin)
• Charles Moore - (trumpet)
• Adam Rudolph - (hand drums, percussion, bamboo flutes, samplers and synthesizers)
• Hannah Rudolph - (child's vocal)
• G.E. Stinson - (guitars)