With members of Sao Paulo Underground, Pharoah and The Underground, and Chicago Underground, cornetist/electroacoustic artist Rob Mazurek leads a quintet with Mauricio Takara (drums), Thomas Rohrer (winds), Philip Somervell (piano) and Guilherme Granado (keys) through a unexpected confluence of styles to create an otherworldly blend of spiritual music.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2017 Country: Portugal Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded at El Rocha Studios, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Spring, 2016, by Fernando Sanchez.
1. Sparklers For Eyes Like Splintered Lightning 1:22
2. Mercury Pool And Chrysanthemum Blooms 2:25
3. Sun Flare Extensions And Other Dimensions 3:00
4. Halls Of Thine Eyes 3:08
5. Raked Harmonic Sun Burst Strata 4:37
6. King Spot 5:55
7. Matrices Of Lost Conversations 15:40
8. The Blue Haze 3:02
9. Android Sun 9:35
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"Electro-Acoustic Composer, Cornetist Rob Mazurek continues to focus on the Brazilian side of his musical production, and that's good news. Even better when we notice that Chants and Corners is something else than a new Sao Paulo Underground enterprise - some of the contributors are the same, but the project has another confection and this signifies that it's multiplying in different perspectives, like the flowers of a plant.
Playing a modular synth, a sampler and a piano besides his cornet, Mazurek has as partners drummer Mauricio Takara and keyboardist Guilherme Granado (both involved in the two albums recorded live in Portugal by Pharoah and The Underground, the association with Pharoah Sanders of both the Chicago Underground and the Sao Paulo Underground bands), and also two musicians who preferred to live and work in Brazil, the Swiss rabeca and saxophone player Thomas Rohrer and the British-Chilean pianist Philip Somervell.
Of course, the music has a modern psychotropic atmosphere all over it, in the confluence of a large plurality of influences, going from avant-jazz, free improvisation and post-rock to alternative hip-hop and new music. Yes, Mazurek's imaginary Brazil of sounds is also a big country."-Clean Feed