Stars have Shapes

Exploding Star Orchestra
Stars have Shapes

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Release date: 21/Sep/2010
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Style: Mainstream Jazz
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Details / Tracklist: 01. "Ascension Ghost Impression # 2"
02. "Chromo Rocker"
03. "Three Blocks of Light"
04. "Impression # 1"
Number of discs: 1
Description:Stars Have Shapes by Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra, released 16 September 2010, includes the following tracks: "Three Blocks Of Light" and more. This version of Stars Have Shapes comes as a 1xCD. -
Jazz cornet player Rob Mazurek has created a sound world that is uniquely his own, sculpting a total sound environment, by fully utilizing the beautiful instrumentation of the Exploding Star Orchestra and sounds from a variety of sources, including: rain from the Brazilian Amazon, insects at the turn of an eclipse, the hammering overdrive of bicycles in Copenhagen, stacked muted cornets run through various filters, drones built from electric eels and piano feedback, hi-frequency sinuous lines from tone generators, pitched bass guitars, and other prepared instruments. With Nicole Mitchell, Jason Adasiewicz, Greg Ward, Josh Abrams, Mike Reed. Also on LP; CD has one extended track and one bonus track not on the LP.
Recorded June, 2010 at Riverside Studio, Chicago. 6-panel digipak packaging with notes in English printed on panels. Disc made in Canada.
Producer: Matthew Lux, Rob Mazurek
No. of tracks: 4
Manufacturer No.: DE595
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Joe Tangari - 03/Feb/2011 4 of 5 Stars!
For the last two decades, Chicago's music scene has been one of the most unique in the U.S., not so much for the music it's produced as for the way th...

Jason Bivins - 07/Dec/2010 
Whenever anyone can keep together a large ensemble playing improvised music for any period of time, I?m impressed. When you?re Rob Mazurek, and you ke...

John Garratt - 22/Nov/2010 4 of 5 Stars!
When a star goes nova, it swallows up neighboring stars fiercely. Chicago-based cornetist and musical renaissance man Rob Mazurek has definitely sprea...

Richard Marcus - 14/Nov/2010 
I had to have an MRI done a few weeks ago, and after hearing various horror stories about the process I was relieved to find the reality far less trau...

Nic Jones - 10/Nov/2010 
This release by the Exploding Star Orchestra is one of those rare examples of a present day unit able to travel to other places. Under the direction o...

Troy Collins - 01/Oct/2010 
Stars Have Shapes is dedicated to the memory of recently deceased seminal free jazz innovators Fred Anderson and Bill Dixon, both of whom played with ...