Rob Mazurek
Alternate Moon Cycles
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Rob Mazurek - Alternate Moon Cycles
What people Are Saying
“The result of this creative freedom is that Alternate Moon Cycles seems to grow in depth with each listen and is at once challenging and accessible and one of Mazurek's finest outings.”
– Karl Ackermann, All About Jazz
“…Mazurek, Matt Lux and Mikel Patrick Avery create a space of zen reflection.”
“…he is able to draw so much life from so few notes.”
– Dave Sumner, Bird is the Worm
“…Alternate Moon Cycles shows a modern musician paying tribute to a classic artist in the most modern way.”
“…transporting the listener to a parallel universe in which Miles Davis and John McLaughlin dropped in on Can's Future Days sessions.”
“This is ambient music, suitable for meditation, but its shifts in texture reward real listening…”
Announcing IARC0002: Rob Mazurek - Alternate Moon Cycles
Released December 2, 2014
Available on LP/CD/Digital via our Bandcamp page
When Rob Mazurek's mentor and collaborator, the avant-garde composer and trumpeter Bill Dixon, passed away in the summer of 2010, it was with most bittersweet pang and somber salute that Mazurek imagined “100 Cs for Dixon,” a performance piece centered on the continuous sound of the C note through an amplified cornet. Friends, confidants and spiritual brethren, Mazurek and Dixon passed countless hours in each other's presence working, sharing, and “searching for the center of the pure tone of the instrument.”
Mazurek committed the imaginings to realization in November 2012, performing “100 Cs for Dixon” at Comfort Station, a community art space in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. But the immense richness and dynamic complexity found in a single note propelled him further, and Mazurek enlisted bassist Matt Lux and percussionist Mikel Patrick Avery to continue exploring minimalism. In the following month of December, the trio used a three-week residency at a subterranean lounge in downtown Chicago to incubate Mazurek’s pure tone intention. Alternate Moon Cycles is a document of the trio's explorations from that room.
Science fiction author Samuel R. Delany's words blister as mantra to Alternate Moon Cycles - a primal cornet chant illuminates a vivid rainbow of brilliant overtones and closes in intimately on "the center of the pure tone of the instrument.”
Notes
Rob Mazurek - cornet
Matt Lux - electric bass
Mikel Patrick Avery - organ
Produced by Scott McNiece
Recorded by David Allen
Mastered by Shelly Steffens
Painting by Rob Mazurek
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About Rob Mazurek
Rob Mazurek is a multidisciplinary abstractivist with a focus on electro-acoustic composition, improvisation, performance, painting, sculpture, video, and installation. He spent much of his creative life in Chicago, and some years in Brazil. Currently he lives and works in Marfa, Texas.