Released March 24, 2015
BAG Production Records / Royal Potato Family

Carla Kihlstedt: Voice & Violin
Ben Goldberg: B Flat & Contra Alto Clarinet
Ron Miles: Trumpet
Rob Sudduth: Tenor Saxophone
Myra Melford: Piano
Nels Cline: Electric Guitars
Kenny Wollesen: Vibraphone & Chimes
Greg Cohen: Bass
Ches Smith: Drums

Composed and Arranged by Ben Goldberg

Words by Allen Grossman

Recorded and Mixed by Ron Saint Germain

Produced by David Breskin

Mastered by Joe Gastwirt Mastering, Oak Park, California

Ches and Kenny swap places on “Bongoloid Lens”

Studio Photography by Mimi Chakarova

Cover Photography by Fredrik Nilson: Ken Price’s “Teekela” (front) and Ken Price’s “Vooz” (back)

Album Design: Spottswood Erving

Layout Design: Yuki Bowman

BAG Logo: Molly Barker

Orphic Machine was commissioned by the Chamber Music America / New Jazz Works; Additional funding provided by the 2012 Jewish Music Festival in Berkeley, California; This recording was funded by a grant from The Shifting Foundation

Allen Grossman’s words are exerpted from “Summa Lyrica: A Primer of the Commonplaces in Speculative Poetics,” part two of The Sighted Singer (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)

IN MEMORIAM, ALLEN GROSSMAN (1932 – 2014)