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Das Chicago Underground Duo besteht immer noch aus dem Kornettisten Rob Mazurek (Exploding Star Orchestra, Mandarin Movie) und dem Schlagwerker Chad Taylor (Iron & Wine). Album Nummer Fünf des Duo... Read more

Thrill Jockey seems to have an unassailable knack for finding the oddest, most purposefully experimental music being manufactured in the United States. While the music produced from the Chicago lab... Read more

Boca Negra is the fifth album as a duo for Rob Mazurek and Chad Taylor, the core of the Chicago Underground Orchestra. Mazurek is a trumpeter and Taylor a drummer, but each contributes via electron... Read more

Boca Negra is the Chicago Underground Duo's fifth album, but the first one that cornetist Rob Mazurek and drummer Chad Taylor have recorded outside Chicago. Recorded over a three-year period in Sã... Read more

The Chicago experimental scene is something of an incestuous melting pot of shared ideas and shared sound. The Chicago Underground Duo of Rob Mazurek and Chad Taylor are two vital members of the se... Read more

At the turn of the last decade, when the Chicago Underground collective was putting out a new record every year, they carved out their aesthetic by distancing themselves from existing styles and th... Read more

The yen to blend ambient soundscapes and avant garde elementsseems to be encoded in the genomes of most Chicago musicians of a certain age, nonemore so than Chicago Underground collective members R... Read more

Als Verwandlungskünstler erprobt, schaufelt sich das improvisationsfreudige afroamerikanische Kulturerbe namens Jazz eigene Gräber, taucht aber stets wieder in neues, unbekanntes Leben ein und ge... Read more

Boca Negra is a slang term in Spanish, used to denote someone who is foul-mouthed or abusive. It’s also a type of cake. Somewhere in between the sour and the sweet lies this album from Thrill Joc... Read more

Drummer Chad Taylor's and cornetist Rob Mazurek's intention with Boca Negra is to present the listener with "an emotional experience that transcends the idea of genre or label." The principle of in... Read more