Jason Adams, performing under the name Rumori developed Deviance from live performances and has really made some amazing music in this album. In the description of the album on BandCamp, the composition of the pieces is described where "Each piece of music works to create its own unique environment, minimal melodies laying a foundation for complex textures and exploration." Each movement follows this structure incredibly well, but they all are so much more complex than the description implies. Pieces like "Shrouded" and "Deviance" emphasize this minimal melody creating significantly more complexity through the polyphonic behaviors of the music. The use of effects also expands on the depth of complexity by allowing expansion into sonic realms the cello cannot reach on its own.

Read the full album review HERE.

Rumori's Kii EP is out now on all digital platforms. Click here to listen to the premiere on New Noise Magazine.

“Kii was about painting with recordings: patching together loops, deconstructing and repurposing those parts, and then recreating them. It led to this place where the highly digital aspects feel just as emotive as the human performance. It means a lot to have remixes from three artists who straddle that line with their own music.”

Featuring remixes from Cruel Diagonals, Protean, and CD Player. Mastered by Jeff Swearengin. Cover art by Philip Meyer.

All proceeds from Bandcamp sales will be donated to Afrorack.

New Noise reviewed Kii EP. Read the review here.

 

 

 

 

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Jason Adams has announced his next release as Rumori. Kii EP features new piece, "Kii", as well as remixes from Cruel Diagonals, Protean, and CD Player. Kii EP will be released on all digital platforms Friday, December 11. 

As part of the Marfa Open Arts Festival closing ceremony, Rumori will perform a 6-hour livestream alongside Josie J and Chris Soohoo. The piece explores the introspection and loss of collective memory, inspired by and centered around The Caretaker's "Everywhere At The End Of Time". Stream anytime between 6p-12a PST today, October 18th, from razethewhitebox.com/live-stream.

Rumori will be featured as an artist for the Marfa Open Art Festival 2020 in a video installation created specifically for the festival. The "Live Drawing Session" nstallation was created in collaboration with divinebrick and Chris Soohoo and will be displayed during the entirety of the festival from September 25 to October 18.

“Live Drawing Session” invites you to sit and experience a distance yet visceral butoh performance prayer by divinebrick, Chris Soohoo, and Rumori, transposed into a figure drawing workshop in motion. Through the guidance of Chris SooHoo and haunting soundscapes woven by Rumori (aka Jason Adams), this session offers points of inspiration stemming from movement, video, and sound. It invites watchers to participate in its wholly improvised performance through their own drawing. Create a composite illustration of body in flow.  Focus and capture elements of mood and meaning, or just observe and allow the spectrum of dreams to invade your consciousness as you become part of this new collaboration.  Tag your drawings #livedrawingmarfa

Buzzbands LA has premiered the music video for "Hideaway (ft. Rumori)" by Torii Wolf. This is the third collaboration between the two artists, and the third music video from Momento Mori Productions directed by Kayko Tamaki.

Rumori's livestream performance on Betawave TV is now available to watch anytime.

Danketsu 10's new album, From a distance, everything shines is out today via Warm Winters Ltd. Listen & purchase as cassette or download from the player above.

The work of the Danketsu group - formerly 9, now 10 - has always revolved around ideas of unity, inclusion and equality. Their latest, completely improvised album titled From a distance, everything shines embodies these ideals; in the subtlety of each contribution, the gentleness of each performer, the willingness to contribute to something greater than each member on their own. The music here is largely graceful, sublime, almost peaceful, and even the more harrowing moments dissolve into a conclusion that's uplifting. The title of the track “ชั่วเจ็ดทีดีเจ็ดหน” is a Thai Buddhist proverb which translates to “Bad seven times, good seven times”. Patrick Shiroishi, the leader of the group, explains that to him this means that “there is something good even in a bad situation.” 

'From a distance, everything shines' is the third release of the Danketsu group. As Danketsu 9, they released albums on Never Anything Records and Patient Sounds. This album is their first as Danketsu 10. 

credits 

released August 21, 2020 

In memory of Lesanu "Sonny" Abegaze 

Jason Adams - cello 
Kelly Coats - flute 
Dylan Fujioka - accordion & percussion 
Noah Guevara - guitar 
Pauline Lay - violin 
Ken Moore - double bass 
Amber Navran - clarinet & tenor saxophone 
Patrick Shiroishi - suona & alto saxophone 
Mallory Soto - voice 
Ang Wilson - flute 

Released by Warm Winters Ltd. as WW006 
Recorded at Human Resources on the 9th of March, 2019 
Recorded and mastered by Felix Salazar 
Photography by Jess Castillo 
Cover and cassette design by Taavi Kelle

Jason Adams will be playing a livestream performance as Rumori this Friday, August 21st at 7:00pm PST, featuring live visuals from Matthew Shores. Watch and listen at betawave.tv/livestream.

Audiofemme has premiered the new single from Torii Wolf, "Wash Away (ft. Rumori)", along with a music video featuring both artists. The premiere includes an interview with Wolf, as well as praise for the single.

"The song opens with composer and cellist Rumori’s breathtaking solo. As the song progresses, it feels almost as if the listener is inside a cave, scraping to get out. Wolf’s voice is a hand reaching down into the dark, grasping for a lost soul; their voice pulses angelically, creating ripples against the wooden timber of Rumori’s cello."

Music Video directed by Kayko Tamaki. DP & Editor: Kylie Hazzard.