The healing path of jazz and liberation -- haunting experimental free jazz soundtrack with deep, emotional improvisations -- proceeds to benefit
anti-domestic violence groups

17 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Free Jazz, NEW AGE: Healing



Details:
CONCEPTUAL RHYTHM

"BREATHTAKING" and "UNEXPECTED" are two of the first raves to describe Chris Olsenâs Conceptual Rhythm, and for many, this will be an introduction to The Healing Path of Jazz and Liberation.

Conceptual Rhythm is an experimental free jazz narrative of courage and hope, featuring deep, searching improvisations that explore both tragedy and victory.

Featuring:
Chris Olsen: drums and percussion
Phil Haynes: drums and percussion
Herb Robertson: trumpet and fluegelhorn
Sean Parker: alto clarinet
Steve Geller: bass
Jim Yanda: guitar


THE MUSIC

This music, originally created for use in a haunting short film called FUR, tells the story of a young Brooklyn girl enduring her stepfatherâs sexual abuse. We follow 12-year-old Rose as she collects pelts from road-killed animals on the streets of Coney Island and sews them into a grotesque mask. With this, she impresses the proprietor of the boardwalk freak show with which she is fascinated â and to which, in her upside-down world, she directly relates.

Having won the approval of this peculiar role model, Rose continues her pelt work with the ultimate goal of ending her stepfatherâs abuse. As the film closes Rose stands at a painful threshold, turning from victim to victor, and watching as the rising sun mirrors her anguish, uncertainty, and hope.

Though the story is fictitious, the facts are entirely too real. In the U.S. alone, an average of nearly 1,000,000 children are abused or neglected each year. Nearly 75 of these victims are under the age of 12. At such a rate, the physical, sexual, and psychological abuse of children is pandemic, a desperately out-of-control and unfathomable crime against the most vulnerable among us.

Proceeds from the sale of Conceptual Rhythm will benefit organizations working to stop domestic violence and child abuse. Visit www.conceptualrhythm.com for more details on these groups and ways you can help support this effort.


THE ARTIST

Chris Olsen is a musician with a vision. With the drums as his compass, he has been mapping the Healing Path of Jazz and Liberation for three decades. Along the way he has performed and recorded with a host of talented jazz, pop, and rock artists; scored the indie film, FUR, with his sextet Conceptual Rhythm; and shone as a journalist and educator at Drum Tracks magazine.

Chris Olsen plays drumset, chimes, bells, gongs, congas, bongos, dumbek, djembe, adufe, udu, rattles, shakers, tea kettles, silkscreens, metal pipes, paper bags, baby toys, hand claps, and belly laughs.

Chris has performed and/or recorded with the following artists:

Chris Olsen's Conceptual Rhythm featuring Herb Robertson, Phil Haynes, Sean Parker, Jim Yanda, and Steve Geller

Curtis Suburban
Luis Manuel
Warren Bloom
Hadley
Sean Parker / Periscope
The Children
Cowpatch
Tomchess / Bombpop
Barbara Brousal
Wendy Chamlin
Delancey Burners
The Skels
Rags to Riches
Tony Alexander's One World
The Suffolk County Festival Orchestra
St. James Saints Drum & Bugle Corps