Ben Goldberg - Orphic Machine (2015)

Orphic Machine, the most ambitious and evocative work of Goldberg s career, is also within the evolution of his courageously experimental music, from 1992, when New Klezmer Trio 'kicked open the door for radical experiments with Ashkenazi roots music' (San Francisco Chronicle), to 2013 s Subatomic Particle Homesick Blues and Unfold Ordinary Mind, which the New York Times noted for 'a feeling of joyous research into the basics of polyphony and collective improvising,'

With gorgeous melodies, unstoppable grooves, and lush sonic feel, Orphic Machine will appeal to pop music fans as well as devotees of new and experimental music.

Tracklist:

01. Reading
02. Line Of Less Than Ten
03. Bongoloid Lens
04. Immortality
05. The Inferential Poem
06. How To Do Things With Tears
07. Care
08. The Present
09. What Was That
10. The Orphic Machine

Personnel:

Carla Kihlstedt: voice & violin;
Ben Goldberg: B-flat clarinet & contra-alto clarinet;
Ron Miles: trumpet;
Rob Sudduth: tenor saxophone;
Myra Melford: piano;
Nels Cline: guitar;
Kenny Wollesen: vibraphone, chimes, drums (3);
Greg Cohen: bass;
Ches Smith: drums, vibraphone (3).