Paul Adams Takes The Road Less Traveled To Musical Heaven

Adams study of Ethnomusicology birthed a love of unique musical instruments. �I have a fair collection of anything that makes noise. My array of flutes inspired me into releasing my Flute Meditations For Dreaming Clouds album, and it was very successful. The Satellite networks picked up on it, and I met a lot of new fans�.

Adams newest release is the beautiful Flute CD called Heavens. �I was able to incorporate more exotic instruments such as the Chinese Hulusi. It�s perhaps more unified in mood.� Serge Kozloski, music reviewer in Europe stated �Paul Adams music harmonizes the mind and soul, and yet it is divinely wonderful !� New Age Retailer states �Heavens is a must-have for all fans of wooden/Native flute music and should easily make many Best of 2010 lists! These wonderful tone poems and meditations are accented by subtle applications of electronic keyboards, as well as various ethnic percussion (rattles, drums) and discrete insertion of well-recorded (and perfectly integrated) nature sounds.� WMHB FM called Heavens an �absolutely wonderful and masterful album!� Adams strays from the purely traditional and integrates various exotic scales with his array of flutes to create an ethereal journey that is unforgettable

Years ago Adams had a tragic accident resulting in the loss of fingers from his fretting hand. The ends were rebuilt with grafts from his leg and he says, �It made me re approach my guitar playing in a different way. Having this limitation caused me to phrase more uniquely. A popular syndicated radio program once called me about my music. They said they really felt I had a way of being unique, and placed my album Various Waves in the TOP 5 of the year. My injury was largely responsible for my odd way of approaching music. Limitation has a way of propelling one beyond preconceived barriers.� The results can also be seen on Adams' finger style Guitar album A View From The Plain. Michael Douglas of station KKCR in Hawaii exclaimed �Wow, I'm blown away, I think it's a phenomenal piece of work! I'm not letting this CD out of my sight!�

Then again, Adams will jump into a completely different groove as he did with a sideline band The Neurons he started with Ray Charles arranger David Hoffman. �This was a chance to utilize my instruments in a jazzier way, blending world music, and looped grooves.� Smooth &Soul Magazine in Germany exclaimed �From time to time I find music unique and original. A pathfinder. Music that realizes new ideas, instruments and styles. That's Dance by The Neurons!�. The previously mentioned organic and unique composing approaches also led to an album Adams and Hoffman did while Hoffman was touring up the west coast in The Ray Charles Tour Bus. �Dave would assemble and play into the laptop, send files to me in Illinois, and I would send back.�

Throughout his career, his albums have gathered international acclaim in many different areas such as World Fusion, New Age, Ambient, Jazz, Native American, and music utilizing his poetic readings. His most important inspiration has come from working many years with the mentally ill, and utilizing his music with this population. �Working with them has been the most artistically rich environment I could have imagined. Where else could I have seen such a deep and vast display of the human condition? The dynamic is extremely difficult at times, but this is where one finds that deep well of the human experience. They are the real people, forced to deal with the nucleus of their own sanity on a daily basis. They are hero's�.

"Adams may well be the most important New Age Personality since George Winston." San Jose Metro