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Rob Mazurek's excellent adventures in Brazil and France

Read "Rob Mazurek's excellent adventures in Brazil and France" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Like bassist Williams Parker or fellow midwesterner, reed player Ken Vandermark, trumpeter and cornetist Rob Mazurek is a hub around which much creative activity revolves. He is a musician, musical organizer and visual artist whose hunger for invention is seemingly limitless. After his early (1990s) foray into bebop, he began to realize the possibilities of modern sound in the hotbed of the creative Chicago scene. He was a force behind the Chicago Underground collective bands and Tigersmilk, and a key ...

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Chicago Underground Trio: Chronicle [CD - DVD]

Read "Chronicle [CD - DVD]" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Filmare della musica da vivo e aggiungervi un apporto creativo è cosa maledettamente difficile. La cosa più ostica è trovare innanzitutto l'equilibrio tra la documentazione di ciò che viene girato e l'idea originale del filmmaker. Ripreso allo Spazio Culturale Tedesco di Chicago, questo nuovo lavoro [in DVD, ma anche in CD] del Chicago Underground Trio [che assomma in uno tre primati: è il loro primo dal vivo, il primo con al contrabbasso Jason Ajemian, il primo completamente improvvisato] trova così ...

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Album Review

Exploding Star Orchestra: We Are from Somewhere Else

Read "We Are from Somewhere Else" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Per potere vivere davvero su una stella che esplode, bisogna esplorarla a fondo e negli ultimi anni Rob Mazurek lo sta facendo con una curiosità e un'energia creativa davvero singolari, infilando il suono acuminato della propria cornetta nelle fessure tra i mondi e aprendone i meccanismi in un'esplosione di colori e suoni davvero straordinaria. Così, dopo avere spostato a sud, in Brasile, l'asse delle proprie geometrie “underground" - e il progetto Sao Paulo Underground è stato tra le cose più ...

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Sao Paulo Underground: Sauna: Um, Dois, Tres

Read "Sauna: Um, Dois, Tres" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Spostando la linea di latitudine decisamente verso sud - un po' come succedeva girando la grande manopola delle vecchie radio satellitari - il variegato progetto “Underground" guidato dalla cornetta di Rob Mazurek è approdato in Brasile, nazione in cui il musicista americano risiede da qualche tempo. Ecco dunque che da Chicago giungiamo a questo sorprendente Sao Paulo Underground, in cui Mazurek è affiancato dal percussionista e musicista elettronico brasiliano Mauricio Takara, tra le figure trasversali più intriganti della fervida scena ...

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Album Review

Chicago Underground Duo: In Praise of Shadows

Read "In Praise of Shadows" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Sin dai loro primi lavori il Chicago Underground Duo è apparso come un nucleo sonoro - da cui si dipartono ulteriori infiorescenze strumentali, dal trio all'orchestra - quasi archetipico, una fusione che facendo toccare gli estremi dello sciamanico e del tecnologico si è proposta come minimo comune denominatore di una vasta serie di esigenze espressive, dalla scena post-rock in cui si sono formati alla spiritualità diretta del duo Cherry-Blackwell, passando per l'elettronica kraut e lambendo anche i prati di canterbury. ...

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Album Review

Rob Mazurek: Mandarin Movie

Read "Mandarin Movie" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Rob Mazurek is a multifaceted artist who explores not only music but also painting and multimedia. His work reflects ideas posited by John Cage about the continuum from music to noise, but Mazurek is allied with the “underground," and Mandarin Movie might be called prog-industrial or prog-techno music, sort of analagous to prog-rock or grunge-rock. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but much of the record is engulfed in layers of extreme distortion, and it felt to ...

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Rob Mazurek/Mandarin Movie: Mandarin Movie

Read "Mandarin Movie" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Besides being a musician, cornetist Rob Mazurek is also a visual artitst. The member of Tigersmilk, Isotope 217, and the Chicago Underground Duo, Trio, Quartet, and Orchestra also paints and constructs multimedia installations.

Mandarin Movie draws as much from the musical aspects of his personality as the painterly ones. His band Mandarin Movie, whose name comes from a dream of rooftop flying saucers, creates layer upon layer of sound. Some of it is music, some is noise. But ...


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