Composer and trumpet player Adam O'Farrill's music is as radiant and free-flowing in its melody, as it is geometric and off-kilter in its rhythm. As a bandleader, O’Farrill has released the critically-acclaimed albums Stranger Days, El Maquech, and Visions of Your Other, collections of music inspired by everyone from Miles Davis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Thom Yorke to Alice Munro, Rene Magritte, and Paul Thomas Anderson. Further shaping O'Farrill's work as a composer and improviser have been his collaborations with a wide range of artists including Hiromi, Mary Halvorson, Vijay Iyer, Anna Webber, Mulatu Astatke, Tyshawn Sorey, Son Lux, Photay, Rudresh Mahanthappa, and Samora Pinderhughes. Adam’s newest album, Hueso, is the next chapter in the story of his longtime quartet, Stranger Days. In addition to his brother, Zack O'Farrill, Hueso features longtime collaborators Xavier Del Castillo on tenor sax and Walter Stinson on bass. Produced by Spencer Murphy, the music on Hueso is a departure from the urban landscape, an attempt to channel the pastoral serenity of rural western Maine, where the band participated in a farm residency in the weeks leading up to their recording session. The album primarily features compositions by Adam, among them Gesturing Towards The West, a piece whose structure is inspired by the cadences of jisei, a type of death poem from Japan. It also contains two interpretations of Thom Yorke’s Truth Ray- one in the form of a solo trumpet performance, and the other featuring the whole quartet.

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