Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra

First press 2023. New, unsealed.
Wild, cosmic jazz that sounds like Sun Ra beamed through a modular synth. Mazurek’s cornet leads the charge as everything else swirls, crashes, and floats around it - guitars, synths, percussion, voices, all colliding in that beautifully chaotic International Anthem way. It’s heavy, spiritual, and completely unpredictable, like free jazz caught in a thunderstorm. FFO: Makaya McCraven, Shabaka Hutchings, Sun Ra, Irreversible Entanglements, Jeff Parker, and anyone who’s ever described a solo as “interdimensional.”