Rob Mazurek

2-CD  DIGIPACK EDITION

PERSONNEL:

ROB MAZUREK, composition, direction, cornet, electronics
DAMON LOCKS, text, voice, electronics
NICOLE MITCHELL, flutes, voice
ANGELICA SANCHEZ, piano
JEFF PARKER, guitar
JOHN HERNDON, drums
CHAD TAYLOR, drums
MATTHEW BAUDERM tenor sax, clarinet
MATTHEW LUX, bass guitar
GUILHERME GRANADO, keyboards, samplers, synth, voice
MAURICIO TAKARA, cavaquinho, electronics, percussion

CD 1: Live at the Sant'Anna Arresi Jazz Festival, 2013
CD 2: Live at the Chicago Cultural Center, October 18, 2013

CD 1:

01. Free Agents of Sound
02. Make Way to the City / The Arc of Slavery #72
03. The Arc of Slavery #72 (Part 2)
04. Helmets of Our Poisonous Thoughts #16 / Awaken the World
05. Collections of Time

CD 2:

01. Free Agents of Sound
02. Collections of Time
03. Make Way to the City
04. The Arc of Slavery #72
05. Helmets of Our Poisonous Thoughts #16
06. Awaken the World #41

Composer, cornetist, electronic & acoustic sound specialist and musical director Rob Mazurek leads his largest regular ensemble, the Exploding Star Orchestra through one of his most ambitious recordings.

While 'Galactic Parables: Volume 1' is a self-contained cosmos, marked by colliding melodic lines and startlingly beautiful passages, as the title indicates, it's part of a larger work. Ever since Exploding Star Orchestra's debut recording, Mazurek has been gradually building an epic science fiction opera inspired by the writings of Samuel R. Delany and Stanislaw Lem. With 'Galactic Parables' his vast speculative realm is coming more clearly into focus with an apocalyptic vision of alternate universes, machine reproduction run amuck, and the colonization of distant planets. 'Galactic Parables' ''is the first record where we're getting close to hitting on the libretto for this future opera,'' says Mazurek, who by both inclination and geography is linked to a constellation of Chicago avant-garde pioneers.