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Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Electro Acoustic Orchestra: The Space Between
by Hrayr Attarian
Musical adventurer Rob Mazurek's The Space Between is a provocative and heady fusion of sight and sound. The double disc set includes an audio CD and a DVD containing performance and multimedia artist Marianne M. Kim's haunting, abstract video accompaniment to the music. The forty-minute suite is divided conveniently, and perhaps whimsically, into eight segments of 5 minutes each. The tracks however flow into each other with no physical or conceptual breaks. The sonic backdrop is synth heavy ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Nella propria vita, a mano a mano che un artista “vero" cresce (in ogni senso), porta con sé la complessità del proprio essere, comprese le essenze creative che muovono la sua attività. Se poi, come Rob Mazurek, ha la fortuna di poter riuscire a vivere mondi e culture artistiche diverse (nel suo caso Chicago, la tradizione, la ricerca, l'avanguardia, ma poi anche l'elettronica “pensante" e il Brasile in qualche modo alternativo a quello da cartolina), l'evoluzione del concetto applicato all'arte ...
Continue ReadingSão Paulo Underground: Beija Flors Velho E Sujo
by AAJ Italy Staff
Poteva sembrare un divertissement nel già denso percorso progettuale di Rob Mazurek, quello dei São Paulo Underground e invece eccoci qui al quarto disco, nonché a una continuità concertistica che ci raccontano della centralità della band nel mondo del compositore e trombettista americano. Le ragioni tra l'altro non sono difficili da capire: da sempre aperto alle suggestioni di mondi tra l'arcaico e il futuristico, tra l'acustico ancestrale e le aperture elettriche, Mazurek ha trovato in Guilherme Granado [alle tastiere] e ...
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by Mark Corroto
Like a painting by Mark Rothko, whose canvasses contain rectangular fields of color and light that convey more than a visual experience, the music of Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Electro Acoustic Orchestra transcends a mere audio happening. Rothko's paintings exceeded the aesthetic confines of their canvasses into a spiritual and psychological realm. Likewise, Mazurek makes visually appealing music.Mazurek's cornet is only part of this phenomenon. On The Space Between he wrote the music and text, provided the cover ...
Continue ReadingRob Mazurek Octet: Skull Sessions
by AAJ Italy Staff
È successo da qualche parte tra l'esordio dell'Exploding Star Orchestra, We Are All from Somewhere Else, e il varo del quintetto Sound Is. All'improvviso, come per incanto, ogni tassello del mosaico Rob Mazurek è andato magicamente al suo posto. Non che negli anni precedenti fossero mancati i colpi d'ala. Ripescate e riascoltate quanto disseminato dalla metà dei Novanta: le avvisaglie di quel che poi sarebbe stato ci sono già tutte. Fili sparsi, certo, in attesa di essere annodati. Ma pur ...
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by Glenn Astarita
Chicago-based cornetist Rob Mazurek has performed with the best and brightest of the new jazz music scene. On this outing he merges his Sao Paulo Underground and Starlicker bands and invites other artists, capturing the essence of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew era. Mazurek frames Davis' jazz-fusion attributes as a fertile means of reimagining the overall vibe from a modernist's perspective. Fueled by diesel engine-like power, the band layers radiant colors with throttling pulses and numerous contrasts via swirling riffs, memorable ...
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by Troy Collins
The shadow of Miles Davis continues to influence the efforts of generations of jazz musicians, especially fellow trumpeters. Davis' myriad innovations span multiple styles and time periods, making it virtually impossible to ignore his achievements. Yet when the We Want Miles exhibition in São Paulo, Brazil asked former resident Rob Mazurek to devise a presentation inspired by his affinity for the Dark Prince's art, the notoriously individualistic cornetist decided to create new music for the event, rather than revisit the ...
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