New York Event Description
Our ambitious 3LP, 40 musician, recording RAGMALA with Adam Rudolph’s Go: Organic Orchestra has been receiving acclaim worldwide. Critics have been comparing the work to many our heroes including Miles Davis, Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra. This will be the NYC Premier! 38 musicians including special guest, Gnawa master Hassan Hakmoun, will be taking the stage at Elabash Hall as part of the Live@365 Series. We recommend getting your tickets in advance for this special concert.
“I am deeply in love with it. Its expansive otherness, its core rasa, remind of the feeling I get when listening to my heroes; Cherry, Sanders, Sun Ra, Coltrane. Ragmala is an authoritative step forward in the evolution of a truly global, celestial, cosmic “world” music.”
(5 Stars) UK Vibe
“subime..a gorgeously complex tapestry of sounds, hues and sensations” Downbeat
“In the jazz world, not since Sun Ra has this reviewer heard anything so successful at reaching the parts other music generally fails to reach. This double album feels like a milestone in the evolution of truly world music.”
Fiona Mactaggart, London Jazz News
The sound has been called a Bitches Brew—Miles Davis (Columbia, 1970)—of the twenty-first century, but perhaps a more accurate comparison might be Alice Coltrane circa 1973, with her Journey to Satchidananda (Impulse! Records), painted, in Ragmala‘s case, from a broader palette.
4 Stars DAN MCCLENAGHAN -All About Jazz
“While Philadelphia’s Painted Bride Art Center has been presenting jazz, improvised and/or experimental music for half a century, it’s still entirely possible this was the most sweepingly wide, boundary-defying cross-cultural performance the venue has ever seen. All About Jazz – Geno Thackara
FULL DEC 13 LINEUP:
Special Guest Hassan Hakmoun -sintir, lead vocals
Conducted and spontaneously composed by Adam Rudolph
Abhik Mukherjee – sitar
Damon Banks – electric bass
David Ellenbogen – guitar
Alexis Marcelo – keys
Arun Ramamurthy – violin
Avram Fefer -basss clarinet, tenor sax
Gwen Laster -viola
Jay Gandhi – bansuri
Kenny Wessel – guitar
Leco Reis – bass
Marco Cappelli- guitar
Mari Tanaka – tampura
Mia Theodoratus- harp
Michel Gentile – flute
Peter Zummo – trombone
Richard Carr – violin
Sameer Gupta -tabla
Sana Nagano – violin
Stephanie Griffin – viola
Stephen Haynes cornets, flugelhorn, alto horn
Sylvain Leroux – tambin, flutes
Trina Basu Ramamurthy – violin
Ze Luis – flute
Sara Schoenbeck – bassoon
Abderahim Hakmoun -vocal, qaraqaba
Charlie Burnham – violin
Graham Haynes – cornet
Hamid Drake – drums
Harris Eisenstadt -bata
Jake Charkey -cello
Julianne Carney-Chung – violin
Libby Schwartz – french horn
Ned Rothenberg clarinets
Neel Murgai -sitar, overtone vocal
Samarth Nagarkar – vocalsRagm
