Creative, free flying, with lots of ideas popping around. Not background music, to say the least!

The name of the ensemble is Go: Organic Orchestra, and it includes over two score musicians that play anything from various flutes, strings, reeds, brass, guitar, bass, and a list of percussion instruments that looks like something out of a National Geographic catalogue. The subtitle of the album is “Music for 33 musicians composed and improvisationally conducted by Adam Rudolph. Any questions so far? Most of the tunes, ranging from two to six minutes except for the opening “Invitation,” consist of gentle rhythm provided by the various percussion instruments, with the strings and woodwinds freely soloing or working together as a team. Pieces like “Part Twelve (Universal Mother)” are fresh and refreshing, while much of the other tunes sound just a tad too free form. Still, the gentleness of the harmonies will keep you in your seat.

Leo Genovese plays piano and keyboard on this collection of compositions, and he teams u p with some creative minds such as Esperanza Spalding/v, George Garzone/ts, John Lockwood/b, Robert Gulloti-Francisco Mela/dr and Daniel Blake/sax for tunes that can be as delicate as “Father of Spectalism” or as edgy and complex as “Chromatic Hymn” and “Left Hand Words.” The themes are quite complex and tricky, but Blake and Garzone handle the hairpin turns like Mario Andretti on “A Minor Complex” and “Portuguese Mirror” respectively. The music comes off as ideas bouncing out of the mind of a mad scientist, with the musicians as sonic Erlenmeyer Flasks.