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Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra - Lightning Dreamers (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at April 23, 2023
Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra - Lightning Dreamers (2023)

Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra - Lightning Dreamers (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 256 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 93 Mb | 00:40:29
Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative | Label: International Anthem

Lightning Dreamers is new work by composer, trumpeter, interdisciplinary abstractivist and modern music mogul Rob Mazurek, who wrote the music for a compacted version of his long-running Exploding Star Orchestra. A follow-up to the acclaimed 2020 Mazurek/ESO release Dimensional Stardust, the album features guitarist Jeff Parker, vocalist Damon Locks, drummer Gerald Cleaver, and pianists Angelica Sanchez and Craig Taborn, among others. It was recorded mostly at the remote Sonic Ranch studios in West Texas, not far from Mazurek’s current home in Marfa, in the days leading up to a debut of the music at Trans Pecos festival in September 2021. Mixing and post-production was headed by Dave Vettraino from IARC studios in Chicago across 2022.
Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra - Dimensional Stardust (2020)

Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra - Dimensional Stardust (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 264 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 100 Mb | 00:43:14
Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative | Label: International Anthem

"Dimensional Stardust" showcases the intricacy and complexity of Mazurek’s compositions but in their most potent, most compacted forms. Opting to focus on tight ensemble orchestration over passages of open improvisation, Mazurek distills a maximal orchestra of explosive improvisers into a beautifully restrained, graceful group exercise in melodic minimalism. The album features almost no “soloist” moments, excepting Jeff Parker’s other-worldy guitar meltdown on “The Careening Prism Within,” and when Nicole Mitchell’s flute floats to the front of the barrage on “Sun Core Tet.”
Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra - Lightning Dreamers (2023) [Official Digital Download]

Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra - Lightning Dreamers (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 40:29 minutes | 461 MB
Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative | Label: International Anthem, Official Digital Download

Lightning Dreamers is new work by composer, trumpeter, interdisciplinary abstractivist and modern music mogul Rob Mazurek, who wrote the music for a compacted version of his long-running Exploding Star Orchestra.
Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra Featuring Roscoe Mitchell - Matter Anti-Matter (2013)

Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra Featuring Roscoe Mitchell - Matter Anti-Matter (2013)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 97:31 min | 231 MB
Genre: Jazz, Free Jazz | Label: Rogueart

A record that not only goes beyond some of the other recent work we've heard from Rob Mazurek – but a set that also offers up two richly different sides of his talents! CD1 features a mindblowing performance from the Exploding Star Orchestra – a special version of the group that features work from the legendary Roscoe Mitchell on alto and soprano sax, plus Chad Taylor and John Herndon on drums, Kevin Drumm on electronics, Nicole Mitchell on flutes, Steve Swell on trombone, Matt Lux on bass, Jason Adasiewicz on vibes and tubular bells, and Mike Reed on drums and bass clarinet!

Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra - s/t (2008) {Thrill Jockey}  Music

Posted by TestTickles at Sept. 18, 2018
Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra - s/t (2008) {Thrill Jockey}

Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra - s/t (2008) {Thrill Jockey}
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | RAR | 134 mb
Genre: free jazz

Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra is a 2008 album by Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra. That means this disc is eponymous. This was released by Thrill Jockey, which means it was released by Thrill Jockey.
Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra - Galactic Parables Vol. 1 (2015)

Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra - Galactic Parables Vol. 1 (2015)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 121:45 min | 280 MB
Genre: Jazz | Label: Cuneiform Records

In the past twelve-month period, composer, electronic artist and cornet virtuoso Rob Mazurek has lead on a half-dozen or so different releases. For the most part, each has featured different line ups and formations from solo efforts to large ensembles and each has garnered enough superlatives to tax the thesaurus. And yet again, Mazurek has raised the bar with his most impressive, far reaching and unique collection with the astounding Galactic Parables: Volume 1. Backed by the revolving cohort that is the Exploding Star Orchestra, this commissioned suite expands on the concepts that Mazurek began shaping with Matter Anti-Matter: Sixty Three Moons of Jupiter (Rougeart, 2013)

Rob Mazurek Pulsar Quartet - Stellar Pulsations (2012)  Music

Posted by mark70 at Oct. 12, 2012
Rob Mazurek Pulsar Quartet - Stellar Pulsations (2012)

Rob Mazurek Pulsar Quartet - Stellar Pulsations (2012)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 47:32 min | 107 MB
Genre: Jazz | Label: Delmark Records

Originally schooled in the foundations of hard bop, cornetist Rob Mazurek, quickly surpassed the form's conventional limitations; his multihued electro-acoustic work over the past two decades has subsequently drawn inspiration from numerous genres besides jazz. Mazurek's unfettered creativity and stalwart leadership skills have thereby cemented his reputation as a key figure in the Chicago scene—primarily as organizer of the venerable Chicago Underground Collective and several other innovative ensembles including Exploding Star Orchestra, São Paulo Underground and Starlicker.

Rob Mazurek - Chimeric Stoned Horn (2017) [Official Digital Download]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 7, 2022
Rob Mazurek - Chimeric Stoned Horn (2017) [Official Digital Download]

Rob Mazurek - Chimeric Stoned Horn (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 41:30 minutes | 490 MB
Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Astral Spirits, Official Digital Download

"Chimeric Stoned Horn" is the official follow-up to Mazurek's "Vortice of the Faun" CS we released back in 2015. "Chimeric Stoned Horn" is also released in conjunction with Mazurek's art opening "Constellation Scores" at URDLA in France, September 16th.

Rob Mazurek - Dimensional Stardust (2020) [Official Digital Download]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by El Misha at Nov. 21, 2020
Rob Mazurek - Dimensional Stardust (2020) [Official Digital Download]

Rob Mazurek - Dimensional Stardust (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.10 kHz | Time - 43:09 | 489 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

"Dimensional Stardust" showcases the intricacy and complexity of Mazurek’s compositions but in their most potent, most compacted forms. Opting to focus on tight ensemble orchestration over passages of open improvisation, Mazurek distills a maximal orchestra of explosive improvisers into a beautifully restrained, graceful group exercise in melodic minimalism. The album features almost no “soloist” moments, excepting Jeff Parker’s other-worldy guitar meltdown on “The Careening Prism Within,” and when Nicole Mitchell’s flute floats to the front of the barrage on “Sun Core Tet.”

Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek - New Future City Radio (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at July 27, 2023
Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek - New Future City Radio (2023)

Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek - New Future City Radio (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 228 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 93 Mb | 00:39:50
Avant-Garde Jazz, Spiritual Jazz, Psychedelic | Label: International Anthem

New Future City Radio is the first duo collaboration of longtime creative partners Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek. In a hyperactive 40-minute, 18-track suite that runs like a boombox mixtape, the two prolific multi-media artists contemplate community, transformation, and the future through the programmatic format of a pirate radio station for the people.