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PRF 004LP
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There is a night in the Naarm/Melbourne music scene that takes place every Tuesday night, known as the "Make it up club." A meeting place where all improvisers, from all walks of life come together to make it up. Many stories have unfolded because of this wonderful institution, there have been many collaborations, many bands, many interactions. A place that values the beginner as much as the master, and is there even such a thing? This is where Rama Parwata and Adam Halliwell met, playing in a multitude of collaborations set for the outer reaches of sonic explorations. A center for birthing their ideas and watching them grow into fountains of sonic possibilities. Rama having reputation for his audacious and technical aural explorations in sound, texture and rhythm on the drum-kit, drawing influence from jazz, extreme metal, and Gamelan music from his Balinese and Indonesian heritage. Adam for his sensitivity to dynamics, form and narrative and his lucidity/chaos juxtapositional-style drawing on influences in pop to folk, and free music and jazz. They unite together with their love of the freer sides of jazz and improvised music, alla Peter Brötzmann and Ganelin Trio to the more funk laden music of Bitches Brew and Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi. It's when musicians find a synergy together, be it through sound conversations, be it through mouth conversations, or be it through the love of what other musicians have said before them, then they can go forth and collaborate freely. As is the case for this duo. Rama and Adam play from different worlds but find a synergy amongst the humanity of sound. The name of this group Gruppo AdRa, is a simple combination name of Ad'am and Ra'ma, Gruppo is used because of our combined Italian heritage. As Rama and Adam are primarily live musicians, improvising and using the studio as a tool is new to this duo. This recording is an experiment in composing from percussion first. To feel movement in harmony and arrangement through the improvising senses of a percussionist. The result is a thorough composed work, a narrative starting inside the body and expanding outward into the world and beyond.
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