Adam Lion's intensely repetition-driven performances are an engrossing study on the possibilities of sound. His solo vibraphone is enough to flood a room with music one would only expect from amplification or supplementary electronics. Slowly evolving ostinatos result in pulsating, dissonant overtones whose frequency beatings bring about scintillating clouds of polyrhythms; in a live setting, it is enough to bewilder one's ear drums. In Gilgul, Lion has captured this phenomenon as a certain metamorphosis takes place.

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"Gilgul (or גלגול) is the Hebrew word that points to metamorphosis. In the scriptures or the Torah, gilgul is associated with generational recycling, human transformation through time, history and familial love. In Jewish mysticism from the 12th to the 17th centuries, gilgul came to mean the recycling of the souls at death, or spiritual transformation. In Jewish mystical constructs (Kabbalah) souls leave the bodies of the dead and take part in a holistic plan, re-entering bodies to re-learn lessons of life. Today, gilgul points to generational and spiritual transformation and more. It has come to mean the radical amazement of second-to-second transformation of body and soul as we as individuals and a community continually wake up to new potentiality. In this, gilgul points to what we see and do not see, to what we are and who we will become, and to the phenomenal beauty of widening perspectives and human flourishing."

-Caroline Lion