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BLACK CUBE SP Mazurek’s newest ensemble and release, Return the Tides (Cuneiform, Oct. 2014) This quartet features São Paulo Underground with Thomas Rohrer, master of the keening rabeca (Brazilian viola) This purple double vinyl, gatefold beauty was released by Cuneiform in LP and CD format in Oct. 2014. Characterized by it's startlingly cathartic and magisterial post-tropicalia modern psychedelia that’s as riveting as it is ravishing Check out an exclusive stream from the title track from debut record, Return the Tides (Cuneiform, 2014) "The album has quickly become the most gratifying listening experience of the year.” — Erik Otis, Sound Colour Vibration

ROB MAZUREK + JEFF PAERKER Rogue Art will release their debut album as a duo, Some Jellyfish Live Forever, in 2015 Over 20 years of collaboration, first duo project explores the rich vocabulary of these two masters to the fullest extent using melody and texture, sound architecture, line and mass "Jeff Parker is arguably the most exciting and thoughtful jazz guitarist of the past two decades, a masterful free improviser who's also fluent in everything from postbop to post rock." - Chicago Reader "Mazurek’s imaginative approach encompasses limitless sonic possibilities." – All About Jazz

Known as one of today's most intrepid and sought after sound explorers, Rob Mazurek is one of the highest profile figures in contemporary creative music.

Rob Mazurek

BUCHAREST, ROMANIAWednesday, November 11, 2015 @ 9PM – CONTROL CLUB Strada Constantin Mille Nr.4, 031178 Bucharest, Romania40.744.900476 / jadd.ro / contact@jadd.ro TENERIFE, SPAINFriday, November 13, 2015 @ 9PM – ESPACIO CULTURAL EL TANQUE & FESTIVAL KEROXEN Calle Fuente de Santa Cruz, s/n, 38003 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands / keroxen.com AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDSSaturday, November 14, 2015 - 2 Sets @8:30PM and 9:30PM – BIMHUISPiet Heinkade 3, 1019 BR Amsterdam, Netherlands31.20.788.21.50 / bimhuis.nl FORLI, ITALY Sunday, November 15, 2015 @ 6PM – TEATRO FELIX GUATTARI Via Orto del Fuoco Forlì, Italy39.338.1699000 / areasismica.it / Presented by Area Sismica TRIESTE, ITALY Monday, November 16, 2015 @ 9PM – TEATRO MIELAPiazza Luigi Amedeo Duca degli Abruzzi, 3, 34132 Trieste, Italy39.040.365119 / teatro@miela.it / miela.it LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA Tuesday, November 17, 2015 @ 8PM – CANKARJEV DOM, KLUB CDPresernova 10, Ljubljana, Slovenia386.124.17163 / cd-cc.si FERRARA, ITALYFriday, November 20, 2015 - 2 Sets @ 9:45PM and 10:45PM – TORRIONE SAN GIOVANNI – JAZZ CLUB FERRARAVia Rampari di Belfiore 167 Ferrara, Italy 39.339.788.62.61 / jazzclubferrara.com For booking inquiries, please contact Saudades: http://www.saudades.at

ROB MAZUREK SOLO WORKS Augmenting his cornet playing with computer programming, electronics and an assortment of keyboards, Mazurek’s solo endeavors reflect his interest in musique concrete and electronic sound manipulation Multi-media performances incorporate Mazurek’s video, painting and print works as visual scores or accompaniment Solo releases on Corbett vs. Dempsey, Moikai, Mego, and Adluna, among others. "His inspirational compositions are drawn from a colorful palette that appears to be inexhaustible." – Alarm Magazine

EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA Listed in DownBeat Critics Poll of top Big Bands for over 10 years. Celebrates 10 years in 2015 with the ensembles 6th recording, Galactic Parables Vol. 1 (Cuneiform, May 2015) Well known as an important vehicle for Mazurek’s imaginative, idiosyncratic compositions, this capaciously inventive, variable and volatile large ensemble has featured critically acclaimed, unwavering creative souls such as Roscoe Mitchell, Nicole Mitchell, Matana Roberts, and Angelica Sanchez Listen to Tracks from: Galactic Parables: Volume 1 Listen to Tracks from: Matter Anti-Matter featuring Roscoe Mitchell (Rogue Art, 2013) "I thought the whole band was exceptional…very shocking, actually, to see how well they absorbed all of that Sun Ra influence and went on to do their own thing." — Amiri Baraka, from interview on RAI Radio 3

“Mazurek’s cornet playing, always affecting and timbrally luminous, achieves the paradox of being simultaneously corporeal and ethereal.” — Barry Witherden, The Wire

PHAROAH AND THE UNDERGROUND Features a sextet of Chicago Underground and São Paulo Underground, with tenor saxophone legend Pharoah Sanders. Sanders and Mazurek effortlessly create elaborate and dynamic modern spirituals as they navigate through cosmic noise with rhythms and phrasing from samba, maracatu, rock, free jazz, and African traditions Listen to Tracks from Debut Record: Spiral Mercury (Clean Feed, 2014) "This is futuristic, not back-ward looking, music. It’s the best possible context for Pharoah Sanders in the 21st century - still unique, still adventurous, still capable of surprising listeners.” — Phil Freeman, The Wire

Mazurek’s broad electro-acoustic palette defies simple categorization and has earned him yearly praise in the DownBeat Critics Poll, recognition as International Musician of the Year in Italy’s Musica Jazz magazine, and Top 10 Records in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. The August 2013 edition of The Wire magazine features Mazurek on the cover and describes him as a prolific and venerable force in new music. His vast catalogue and expansive vision has kept him on the cutting edge of creative music for the past three decades. His 300+ compositions and 52 recordings reveal an interlaced superstructure to the attentive listene

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SÃO PAULO UNDERGROUND São Paulo Underground is a power trio that links Chicago’s volatile creative music scene with São Paulo, Brazil’s leading experimental musicians. It features Chicago composer Rob Mazurek on cornet and electronics and two native Paulistanos, Mauricio Takara on percussion, cavaquinho and electronics, and Guilherme Granado on keyboards, synths, sampler and vocals. Founded in 2005, during Mazurek’s eight-year Brazilian sojourn. São Paulo Underground's music embodies a fascinating mixture of Sun Ra-esque cosmic noise with rhythms and phrasing from samba, maracatu, rock and free jazz traditions. It's electronica-laced Tropicália characterized by glistening sonic textures, unabashedly beautiful melodies, an expansive improvisational palette and fiercely gleeful interplay. Listen to Tracks from: Beija Flors Velho E Sujo (Cuneiform, 2013) "Limitless in its possibilities." – Rolling Stone "Post digital, post industrial psychedelia." - The Wire "A visionary jazz-rock trio." - The New York Times

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CHICAGO UNDERGROUND DUO Celebrates 20 years of Rob Mazurek and Chad Taylor performing as Chicago Underground Duo in 2016 Seven remarkably creative and challenging recordings, including the most recent, Locus The duo is a vehicle for both Mazurek and Taylor's compositions and improvisation with varied instrumentation including cornet, drums, mbira, electronics, voice and flute. The result yields powerful grooves and blistering electronics alongside ambient sound structures, folk song simplicity and polyrythmic bursts of energy with lyrical vignettes Listen to Tracks from: Locus (Northern Spy, March 2014) "Atmospheric, exploratory music that creates worlds as it progresses." - BBC "Following the work of Mazurek and Taylor remains a near-requirement for those invested in modern creative music.” — Tiny Mix Tapes

Rob Mazurek’s Ensembles

BLACK CUBE SP Mazurek’s newest ensemble and release, Return the Tides (Cuneiform, Oct. 2014)This quartet features São Paulo Underground with Thomas Rohrer, master of the keening rabeca (Brazilian viola)This purple double vinyl, gatefold beauty was released by Cuneiform in LP and CD format in Oct. 2014. Characterized by it's startlingly cathartic and magisterial post-tropicalia modern psychedelia that’s as riveting as it is ravishing Check out an exclusive stream from the title track from debut record, Return the Tides (Cuneiform, 2014) "The album has quickly become the most gratifying listening experience of the year." — Erik Otis, Sound Colour Vibration

ROB MAZUREK SOLO WORKS Augmenting his cornet playing with computer programming, electronics and an assortment of keyboards, Mazurek’s solo endeavors reflect his interest in musique concrete and electronic sound manipulationMulti-media performances incorporate Mazurek’s video, painting and print works as visual scores or accompaniment Solo releases on Corbett vs. Dempsey, Moikai, Mego, and Adluna, among others. "His inspirational compositions are drawn from a colorful palette that appears to be inexhaustible." – Alarm Magazine

PHAROAH AND THE UNDERGROUND Features a sextet of Chicago Underground and São Paulo Underground, with tenor saxophone legend Pharoah Sanders Sanders and Mazurek effortlessly create elaborate and dynamic modern spirituals as they navigate through cosmic noise with rhythms and phrasing from samba, maracatu, rock, free jazz, and African traditions Listen to Tracks from Debut Record: Spiral Mercury (Clean Feed, 2014) "This is futuristic, not back-ward looking, music. It’s the best possible context for Pharoah Sanders in the 21st century - still unique, still adventurous, still capable of surprising listeners.” — Phil Freeman, The Wire

ROB MAZUREK + JEFF PAERKER Rogue Art will release their debut album as a duo, Some Jellyfish Live Forever, in 2015Over 20 years of collaboration, first duo projectExplores the rich vocabulary of these two masters to the fullest extent using melody and texture, sound architecture, line and mass "Jeff Parker is arguably the most exciting and thoughtful jazz guitarist of the past two decades, a masterful free improviser who's also fluent in everything from postbop to post rock." - Chicago Reader "Mazurek’s imaginative approach encompasses limitless sonic possibilities." – All About Jazz

EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA Listed in DownBeat Critics Poll of top Big Bands for over 10 years. Celebrates 10 years in 2015 with the ensembles 6th recording, Galactic Parables Vol. 1 (Cuneiform, May 2015) Well known as an important vehicle for Mazurek’s imaginative, idiosyncratic compositions, this capaciously inventive, variable and volatile large ensemble has featured critically acclaimed, unwavering creative souls such as Roscoe Mitchell, Nicole Mitchell, Matana Roberts, and Angelica Sanchez Listen to Tracks from: Galactic Parables: Volume 1Listen to Tracks from: Matter Anti-Matter featuring Roscoe Mitchell (Rogue Art, 2013) "I thought the whole band was exceptional…very shocking, actually, to see how well they absorbed all of that Sun Ra influence and went on to do their own thing." — Amiri Baraka, from interview on RAI Radio 3

Known as one of today's most intrepid and sought after sound explorers, Rob Mazurek is one of the highest profile figures in contemporary creative music. Mazurek’s broad electro-acoustic palette defies simple categorization and has earned him yearly praise in the DownBeat Critics Poll, recognition as International Musician of the Year in Italy’s Musica Jazz magazine, and Top 10 Records in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. The August 2013 edition of The Wire magazine features Mazurek on the cover and describes him as a prolific and venerable force in new music. His vast catalogue and expansive vision has kept him on the cutting edge of creative music for the past three decades. His 300+ compositions and 52 recordings reveal an interlaced superstructure to the attentive listener.

“Mazurek’s cornet playing, always affecting and timbrally luminous, achieves the paradox of being simultaneously corporeal and ethereal.” — Barry Witherden, The Wire

CHICAGO UNDERGROUND DUO Celebrates 20 years of Rob Mazurek and Chad Taylor performing as Chicago Underground Duo in 2016Seven remarkably creative and challenging recordings, including the most recent, LocusThe duo is a vehicle for both Mazurek and Taylor's compositions and improvisation with varied instrumentation including cornet, drums, mbira, electronics, voice and flute. The result yields powerful grooves and blistering electronics alongside ambient sound structures, folk song simplicity and polyrythmic bursts of energy with lyrical vignettes Listen to Tracks from: Locus (Northern Spy, March 2014) "Atmospheric, exploratory music that creates worlds as it progresses." - BBC "Following the work of Mazurek and Taylor remains a near-requirement for those invested in modern creative music." — Tiny Mix Tapes