Rob Mazurek graces the Keroxen Records waves with a genre defying album of field recordings, modular electronics, trumpet harmonies and spirit call chants.
Nestor's Nest is another addition to Mazurek's mammoth catalogue of cosmic unity, coming like a spur of the moment whilst staying at Nestor and Pura's house in Tenerife during the Keroxen Festival edition of 2023. Dead time doesn't exist for the American cornetist and whilst hanging at the organisers house Mazurek decided to record and interact with his colourful tropical surroundings. Mangos, Papayas and Star Fruits all make an appearance here as does the quietness of an idyllic garden juxtaposed with Mazurek's stormy interferences, unleashing his modular synths and other acoustic paraphernalia into an ecstatic mix of pure celestial energy.
Rob Mazurek (born 1965) is an American composer, cornetist and visual artist based in Chicago, at the forefront of experimentation and adventurous improvised since his first recordings in the early 90's. A founding member of such influential ensembles as Chicago Underground and the Exploding Star Orchestra, he has been developing his own style of improvisational music with a myriad of collaborators, too many to list but amongst them true giants of the 20th and 21st century music cannon: Bill Dixon, Pharoah Sanders,
Roscoe Mitchell, Yusef Lateef and Naná Vasconcelos, Tortoise and
Jeff Parker, Gastr del Sol and
Jim O'Rourke,
Luc Ferrari, Isotope 217, Stereolab, Pan American, amongst many others. His albums have been released by Desoto, Aesthetics,
Mego, Submarine, Delmark, Thrill Jockey...
