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Adam Rudolph, cofounder of
Eternal Wind ,
a percussionist who had played world-music with African and Indian musician, joined Yusef Lateef's group in 1988.
He founded Moving Pictures in the 1990s, releasing
Moving Pictures (1992), the archetype of his
world-music for chamber orchestra (among others,
guitarist Stinson of Shadowfax, Indian violinist
Shankar and Jihad Racy on Middle-eastern instruments),
Skyway (Soul Note, 1994),
12 Arrows (Meta, 1999),
Contemplations (Meta, 1999) and
Dream Garden (Justin Time, 2008).
Adam Rudolph experimented with new ways of composing for and conducting large
ensembles, eventually leading to Go, the Organic Orchestra, that
debuted with three live albums:
1 (november 2001), Web Of Light (march 2002),
Thought Forms (june 2006).
Sonic Mandala (may 2012) featured a larger ensemble.
In 2008 Adam Rudolph, Yusef Lateef, trumpeter Kasper Tranberg and drummer Kresten Osgood formed the Universal Quartet that released The Universal Quartet (august 2008), with Rudolph on congas, sintir, thumb piano, frame drum, flute, shakuhachi, slit drum and singing bowls, and Lateef on various flutes, oboe, tenor sax, shenai, piano, and vocals, and Light (july 2009).
Adam Rudolph and Defunkt's Joseph Bowie formed the IgBo Duet of Good Medicine (july 2011), performed with cymbals, djembe, percussion, bells and gong (Rudolph), and harmonica, trombone, congas, cowbells, shekere, caxixi, percussion and waterphone (Bowie).
Adam Rudolph's Go Organic Orchestra, a 33-musician ensemble, is documented on
Sonic Mandala (Meta, 2013), featuring
Ned Rothenberg, JD Parran, Graham Haynes,
Peter Zummo, etc
(five flutes, five reeds, two
double reeds, three brass, nine strings, seven percussionists, piano,
two electric guitars).
Go's Turning Towards The Light (december 2014) featured a new line-up of
New York-based guitarists and bassists:
Rez Abbasi, Nels Cline, Liberty Ellman, David Gilmore,
Miles Okazaki, Marvin Sewell, Damon Banks, Marco Capelli, Jerome Harris,
Joel Harrison and Kenny Wessel.
Resonant Bodies (november 2015) documents a live performance of Adam Rudolph's Go Organic Guitar Orchestra (Nels Cline, Liberty Ellman, Joel Harrison, Jerome Harris, Miles Okazaki, Marco Cappelli, David Gilmore & Kenny Wessle all on guitars, plus Damon Banks on bass).
Moving Pictures' seventh release Glare Of The Tiger (june 2016) featured Alexis Marcelo (Fender Rhodes, electric keyboards, Hammond B3 organ), Damon Banks (electric bas), Graham Hayne (cornet, flugelhorn, electronics), Hamid Drake (drum set, percussion), James Hurt (various percussion, Fender Rhodes, smart phone synthesizer module), Kenny Wessel (electric guitar, electronics) and Ralph Jones (flutes, bass clarinet, soprano and tenor saxes).
Karuna (january 2017) and
Imaginary Archipelago (september 2018) document
the Karuna Trio with Ralph Jones on assorted reeds & voice and Hamid Drake on percussion & voice.
Hu Vibrational, formed by Adam Rudolph and Hamid Drake in 1997, was documented on:
Boonghee Music 1 (recorded between 1997 and 2000),
Beautiful - Boonghee Music 2 (may 2002), with Rudolph on
lute, harp, udu drums, kalimba, cajon, talking drum, flute qarqarba, shaker and surdo,
Universal Mother - Boonghee Music 3
(2006),
The Epic Botanical Beat Suite - Boonghee Music 4
(recorded between 2014 and 2015),
with Bill Laswell (bass), Elvind Aarset (electric guitar), Alex Marcelo (electric piano), Steve Gorn (flute) and several percussionists,
and
Timeless (Meta, 2023), featuring a 13-people ensemble.
Rudolph played keyboards, thumb pianos, merimbula, cajon, mbuti harp, mouth bow, vocal, slit drums, udu drums, wooden and bamboo flutes, double reeds, gongs, kudu horn, zither, caxixi, kongos, tarija, gankogui, bells, percussion.
The rest was:
Drake on various percussion, Alexis Marcelo on Fender Rhodes organ, Brahim Fribgane on tarija, Damon Banks on bass, Eivind Aarset on guitar and electronics, Harris Eisenstadt on bata, Jan Bang on sampling, Kaoru Watanabe on flute, Marco Cappelli on guitar, Neel Murgai on sitar and Sameer Gupta on tabla.
Autumn Moon Meditation (november 2023) pits
Adam Rudolph (thumb pianos, electronic keyboards, slit drums, gongs, bells, glockenspiel, hindehoo, percussion & composition) against the Chinese Crickets Rosary Ensemble, consisting of 108 singing crickets led by Fung Liao aka Lars Fredriksson.
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