Artist: Exploding Star Orchestra | Label: IARC / Nonesuch | Format: LP | Genre: Jazz | Album Condition: New | Cover Condition: Sealed Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra Dimentional StardustIARC / Nonesuch 643618Following the 2018 JazzFest Berlin debut of the new Exploding Star Orchestra music, Mazurek returned to Chicago, where International Anthem took the opportunity to capture his new ESO compositions with a cast of collaborators from their collective constellation of artists. Over a handful of studio dates between August 2019 and March 2020, Mazurek arranged his pieces for eleven musicians—Nicole Mitchell, Jeff Parker, Jaimie Branch, Joel Ross, Mikel Patrick Avery, Tomeka Reid, Chad Taylor, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Macie Stewart, Angelica Sanchez, and John Herndon. He also commissioned his long-time lyrics collaborator Damon Locks to draft original texts for each of the songs; Locks also recorded vocal tracks. After three months of rigorous post-production, editing, and assembly work, Mazurek completed Dimensional Stardust. Dimensional Stardust recalls an array of Mazurek’s symphonic influences—from Béla Bartók to Morton Feldman to Gil Evans to Sun Ra to Pedro Santos to Bill Dixon to The Art Ensemble of Chicago. Opting to focus on tight ensemble orchestration over passages of open improvisation, Mazurek distills an orchestra of explosive improvisers into a beautifully restrained, graceful group exercise in melodic minimalism. Mazurek himself is sparsely present as an instrumentalist, only occasionally joining the ensemble with his piccolo trumpet. All the way through, the electro-acoustic poly-rhythmic percussion section (Chad Taylor, Mikel Patrick Avery, and John Herndon) churns, peaking in rare soloist moments by flutist Nicole Mitchell (on the opener “Sun Core Tet”) and guitarist Jeff Parker (on “The Careening Prism Within”). Tracks are; Sun Core Tet (Parable 99) A Wrinkle in Time Sets Concentric Circles ReelingGalaxy 1000The Careening Prism Within (Parable 43) Abstract Dark Energy (Parable 9) Parable of InclusionDimensional Stardust (Parable 33) Minerals Bionic StereoParable 4000 (We All Come From Somewhere Else) Autumn PleiadesNEW SEALED LP with thick gatefold jacket
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