Jazz Articles about Sao Paulo Underground

Sao Paulo Underground: Tres Cabecas Loucuras

by Troy Collins
October 26, 2011

Três Cabeças Loucuras (Portuguese for “three crazy heads") is the third release from São Paulo Underground to explore the furthest fringes of Brazil's revolutionary Tropicalia movement. Updating the renowned genre's patented psychedelia with free improvisation, laptop-driven electronica and musique concrete, the album unveils a spectrum of kaleidoscopic sound that pushes the bounds of each style to its limits, creating a new, unclassifiable amalgam in the process.The group was originally co-founded by Chicago-based cornetist Rob Mazurek (Chicago Underground, Exploding ...

Sao Paulo Underground: Sauna: Um, Dois, Tres

by Paul Olson
June 11, 2006

Expatriate Chicagoan cornetist/composer Rob Mazurek has been on an impressive run of musical projects and recordings; recent Mandarin Movie and Chicago Underground Duo releases pretty strongly undermine any notion that his move to Manaus, Brazil has been anything but inspiring. Sauna: Um, Dois, Três, the debut from Mazurek's new Underground collaboration with Brazilian drummer/programmer/trumpeter Mauricio Takara, is a fascinating, richly textured set that combine the best elements of real-time live instrumentation and electronica-saturated studio composition.A host of other ...

Sao Paulo Underground: Sauna: Um, Dois, Tres

by Mark Corroto
May 4, 2006

Even today we are just coming to accept the innovations and constructions of Teo Macero and the man who was credited with and blamed for Macero's snip and paste collage work, Miles Davis. In today's digital studio it is certainly easier to manipulate sound, and few artists do it as well as cornetist-turned-scientist Rob Mazurek.

Mazurek has been at it since 1997 with Tortoise, various incarnations of Chicago Underground bands, and Isotope 217. His technique has continued to ...