Adam Rudolph's Hu Vibrational: Vibe Ride

Adam Rudolph’s Hu Vibrational: Vibe Ride

Friday, December 12, 20258:00 pm

$25 advance$30 doors$20 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+)doors 7pm

Renowned composer/percussionist Adam Rudolph returns to Roulette with his project Hu Vibrational in an evening of sonic meditation to celebrate the November 2025 release of their record, Vibe Ride (New Dawn Records). Vibe Ride is the group’s sixth album exploring what they call “Boonghee Music,” an organic and percussive dance music fusion, or “a cascade of world-inspired beats from Africa, Asia and South America, mixed with jazz, hip-hop and electronica.” (JazzTimes). First dreamed up in the early 2000s by Rudolph with producer Carlos Niño and percussionist Hamid Drake, Hu Vibrational has been continued over the past two decades by Rudolph, as the only original member of the band. Hu Vibrational has been described as deeply spiritual music, featuring numerous instruments such as dusu’ngoni, gimbre, udu drums, kalimbas, cajon, voice, and electronics. Rudolph describes the resulting soundscape as a “sonic mandala.”

Vibe Ride: A Sonic Mandala Meditation is not a regular concert—feel free to bring yoga mats, blankets, pillows, edibles, the desire to dance.

HU VIBRATIONAL
Adam Rudolph compositions, percussion, electronic processing, cajon, overtone singing, thumb pianos
Alexis Marcelo electric keyboards, percussion
Jerome Harris electric bass, vocal
Harris Eisenstadt bata, percussion
Neel Murgai electric sitar, overtone singing and electronics
Tim Keiper percussion, gourd, dusu n’goni
Tripp Dudley cajon, tabla, frame drums, percussion

“Over the course of the last few decades, Adam Rudolph has quietly become a giant of world fusion and spiritual jazz.” -Bandcamp

“Music that thrives on the balance of simultaneously reaching backwards and forwards in time. It soothes and reorients, yet feels like the opposite of somnambulant new-age massage tapes.” -JazzTimes

A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.

Hailed as a “pioneer in world music” (NY Times) for the past five decades composer and percussionist Adam Rudolph has performed extensively throughout North & South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He has released over 60 recordings as a leader and co-leader, featuring his compositions and percussion work. Rudolph composes for his ensembles Sunrise Quartet Moving Pictures Octet, Hu Vibrational, and Go: Organic Orchestra, a 30-piece group for which he has developed an original music notation and con- ducting system. He has taught and conducted hundreds of musicians worldwide in his Go: Organic Orchestra concept.

Rudolph has performed with Don Cherry, Andre 3000, Jon Hassel, Pharaoh Sanders, Sam Rivers, Tyshawn Sorey, Muhal Richard Abrams, L. Shankar, Dave Liebman, Wadada Leo Smith, Philip Glass, Omar Sosa and Fred Anderson, among others.

He toured extensively and recorded 15 albums with Yusef Lateef, including duets and their large ensemble compositional collaborations.

His compositions have been performed by Momenta String Quartet, Oberlin Percussion Group, Figura Chamber Orchestra, and Odense Percussion Ensemble, among others.

Rudolph is known as one of the early innovators of what is now called “World Music.” In 1978 he co-founded, with Foday Musa Suso, the Mandingo Griot Society, one of the first groups to combine African and American music, and in 1988 he recorded the first fusion of American and Moroccan Gnawa music with sintir player Hassan Hakmoun.

Rudolph has received numerous grants and awards for his work. His music methodology and philosophy books, Pure Rhythm, (2006), and Sonic Elements (2022) have been used by composers, performers, students, and music institutions around the world.