Komara Komara

Komara is the project by the 3 esteemed musicians, drummer Pat Mastelotto mostly known as King Crimson's drummer for the past 20 years as well as a part of Tony Levin's Stick Men, Slovakian guitar player and composer David Kollar and Italian Trumpeter Paolo Raineri. The three have combined forces in 2014 to create this unique sounding band.
The band is described as "cinematic industrial ethno-rock"; the music is sometimes heavy quite similar to what King Crimson were doing in their post 90's era, but can also create cool, ethereal, psychedelic, experimental and jazzy soundscapes all meshed together in the most beautiful manner thanks to Raineri's exquisite trumpet work. Kollar's bass and guitar work are also notable but it's the electronics and sound effects which gives the already diverse sounding music another dimension…

Drummer Pat Mastelotto and bassist Tony Levin must rank as two of rock’s busiest musicians. They’re both members of King Crimson, while Levin is also a prolific session musician and a regular in Peter Gabriel’s band, and Mastelotto’s projects include O.R.k. and Komara. Their trio is completed by guitarist Markus Reuter. "Prog Noir" features 10 new tracks, running the gamut from intricate prog, to jazz fusion, to lean atmospheric rockers, all performed impeccably by the group with their usual sophisticated twist.

During the last quarter of the 20th century, and thanks largely to Eric Clapton's remarkable devotion to his memory, Robert Leroy Johnson posthumously became the most celebrated Delta blues musician of the pre-WWII era. Among numerous editions of his complete works and various anthologies that combine his recordings with those of his contemporaries and followers, J.S.P.'s The Road to Robert Johnson and Beyond combines many of his essential performances with those by dozens of other blues artists from Blind Lemon Jefferson and Henry Thomas to Muddy Waters and Elmore James. 105 tracks fill four CDs with several decades' worth of strongly steeped blues that trace the African American migration from the deep south on up into Chicago. This is a fine way to savor the recorded evidence, as primary examples from Blind Blake, Charley Patton, Son House, Charlie McCoy, Walter Vincson, Skip James, Ma Rainey, Tampa Red, Kokomo Arnold, Scrapper Blackwell, Leroy Carr, Lonnie Johnson, and Peetie Wheatstraw lead directly to early modern masters like Big Joe Williams, Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Bill Broonzy, Johnny Temple, Leroy Foster, Johnny Shines, Homesick James Williamson, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Snooky Pryor, Little Walter, and David Honeyboy Edwards, among many others.