Surprisingly dancey at the beginning, a groove and freakish momentum to the pulsar shifting you get throughout this storming record from Rob Mazurek and the Exploding Star Orchestra. What's the secret ingredient if any? Yet again it's got to be the chugging sensile off kilter tug and tease of Craig Taborn on a Wurlitzer and Moog Matriarch and guitarist Jeff Parker fractured and compelling in the mix on 'Future Shaman'. The big track is the wild and experimental highly anarchic 'Black River' which is essential - Nicole Mitchell's flute lines spinning in/out against wild cymbal clashes and subterranean voice. Mazurek's spluttering horn auteur-like harnessing of sonic debris and mayhem in equal measure is as inspiring as it remains all these years on totally fresh. Out on 31 March
Rob Mazurek, photo: via Clandestine
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