Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Knoxville, TN @ Knoxville Civic Auditorium - Big Ears Festival - 10:15pm

01. Future Shaman > 14:02
02. ??? 19:12
03. ?Shape Shifter? > 15:45
04. ??? > 9:28
05. Improv? > Parable 3000 (We All Come From Somewhere Else) 19:19

Rob Mazurek - cornets & electronic treatments
Mary Halvorson – guitar
Tomeka Reid - cello
Craig Taborn - fender rhodes
Angélica Sánchez - wurlitzer & moog sub 37
Damon Locks - voice, electronics, samplers, text
Gerald Cleaver – drums
Chad Edward Taylor - drums

Notes: Bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten was mysteriously absent.

DPA 4061 > MMA1000 > ocmPMD620 > WAV (24/48)
Recorded by jb63

Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra 3/30/23 Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, TN @ Civic Auditorium

Rob Mazurek & Damon Locks: New Future City Radio
Friday, March 31, 2023
Knoxville, TN @ The Standard - Big Ears Festival - 12pm

Shure MV88 > iPhone 12/13 > Motiv Audio App > WAV (24/48) > CD Wave Editor (tracking) > FLAC (24/48)
Matrix of two sources, recorded by Funk It Blog (from front left) & Mr. Mountjoy (from front row dead center)

01. ???
02. ???
03. ???
04. ???

Rob Mazurek - cornet, electronics, samplers, etc
Damon Locks - voice, electronics, samplers, text, etc.

Notes: The matrix starts about 8 minutes in, before that it's mainly Mr. Mountjoy's source.

BIO:
New Future City Radio is a collaboration between Rob Mazurek and Damon Locks. Within this new duo the two contemplate: community, transformation, and the future, through the lens of imagining a pirate radio station for the people. 

Themes both sonic and text based were predetermined but improvisation leads the journey. Rob Mazurek is known for a wide variety of self-steered projects as well as collaborations. With this project he pairs up with his Exploding Star Orchestra member, Damon Locks. Damon Locks is best known not only as a voice in Exploding Star Orchestra but also the leader of his own group Black Monument Ensemble (both group have records out on International Anthem Recording Company). Together the duo share electronic duties but they each take the lead when needed with their own specialities, Rob trumpet and Damon voice. The music these two have devised may sound overtly bombastic one moment and gently transportive the next, and often somewhere in between. When asked about the New Future City Radio music the duo exclaimed in one voice, “I’m talking post, post, post, future. I’m talking resilience and levitation. I’m talking beauty and structural integrity for my people. I’m talking lightbeams that tell stories and educate. Let’s talk about that if you wanna talk new future!”

Rob Mazurek & Damon Locks: New Future City Radio 3/31/23 Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, TN

Chicago Underground Orchestra
Live on WNUR 06-22-96

Rob Mazurek - cornet
Robert Barry - drums
Josh Abrams - bass
Jeff Parker - guitar

This is probably one of the earliest recordings of this ensemble.  Robert Barry was later replaced by Chad Taylor who is now an essential part of the Chicago Underground.

Chicago Underground Orchestra lead by Rob Mazurek had a weekly sunday afternoon gig at the Green Mill (of all places.)  This set was recorded in the afternoon also, but it was a saturday.

Chicago Underground Orchestra - La Jetée (live 1996-06-22 WNUR)

Ep. 323: Jessica Kiang on Bi Gan’s Resurrection and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. I’m back at the Cannes Film Festival to talk about the highlights with another all-star cast of guests. This episode I sat down with Jessica Kiang who kindly gives virtuosic readings of two standouts from late in the festival: Resurrection (directed by Bi Gan) and The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt), plus some thoughts on what films she’d like to see win awards. Kiang is as usual writing reviews for Variety at Cannes; she is also programmer at Belfast Film Festival and a member of the selection committee of the Berlinale.

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Ep. 323: Jessica Kiang on Cannes 2025: Bi Gan’s Resurrection and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind

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