Brian Shankar Adler at Meloon Chapel At Woodfords Church

Brian Adler is touring in support of his highly praised new CD “Fourth Dimension” on the Chant Records label. Raul D’Gama Rose writes in All About Jazz: “There is visceral excitement in this music…Adler’s characteristic rhythmic stride ignites the whole work.” The CD will be available on the evening of the concert.

“Fourth Dimension” is percussionist/composer Brian Shankar Adler’s seventh record as a leader, and offers listeners an album jam-packed with arrestingly beautifully compositions rooted in Adler’s own spiritual upbringing in an Ashram.

Joined by some of New York’s top improvisers: Matt Moran, vibes, Jonathan Goldberger, guitar, Rob Jost, bass, and Santiago Leibson, piano, the group weaves through peaceful and radioactive terrain with ease and style....

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Brian Adler is touring in support of his highly praised new CD “Fourth Dimension” on the Chant Records label. Raul D’Gama Rose writes in All About Jazz: “There is visceral excitement in this music…Adler’s characteristic rhythmic stride ignites the whole work.” The CD will be available on the evening of the concert.

“Fourth Dimension” is percussionist/composer Brian Shankar Adler’s seventh record as a leader, and offers listeners an album jam-packed with arrestingly beautifully compositions rooted in Adler’s own spiritual upbringing in an Ashram.

Joined by some of New York’s top improvisers: Matt Moran, vibes, Jonathan Goldberger, guitar, Rob Jost, bass, and Santiago Leibson, piano, the group weaves through peaceful and radioactive terrain with ease and style.

In “Fourth Dimension,” Adler invokes an inner world and musical language where surreal landscapes and symmetrical structures are created using textless mantras, disintegrating drones, mind-bending polyrhythms, and encrypted messages.

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