Adam Rudolph/Tyshawn Sorey – Archaisms II – Vinyl LP

The first half of Archaisms II features Rudolph at the helm, with Sorey at the piano for much of its 22-minute length, before shifting to drum kit in the closing minutes. The second half is conducted by Sorey, with Rudolph taking his turn at the keyboard for a portion of the proceedings.
Despite the additional voices, Sorey says, “In a lot of ways it’s still a duet between Adam and me. Our concept has expanded so the point where the music still sounds like something that we teamed up and developed together.”
“Tyshawn is a very studious, courageous and imaginative artist,” Rudolph says. “What strikes me about the music we make together is that it contains a balance between what I call the virtuosic and the invocational. John Coltrane is a wonderful example of the invocational aspect, which invokes something transcendent. The virtuosic has to do with the high level of craft that serves that, which Tyshawn and these three fantastic percussionists certainly possess. That all results in an intense, feeling quality, a range of emotions, thrills and goosebumps.”