Dimensional stardust

"With his careful needlework, Mazurek stitches together an album of big, unanswerable questions and gorgeously orchestrated music, setting aside distinctions between genres, musicians, and points in time and space without losing sight of how each of these components is necessary to the whole. It rises up to gesture toward the cosmos, then returns us to life on Earth, tracing a single great parabolic arc".

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"Absorbing, witty and wondrous, this is an outstanding set alive with colour and life, a set to admire and to listen to, repeatedly. Highly recommended".

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"Through more than a decade and a handful of albums, Rob Mazurek's large ensemble has explored ways to expand a motif-refracting its essence, creating its kin, heeding the path that unfolds. That's probably someone's definition of trad composition, but at its best, the troupe of savvy improvisers in the Exploding Star Orchestra makes it seem like a novel tack - and never more so than on the 10 exquisite pieces of the suite-like Dimensional Stardust".

"Free jazz, modern classical and post-rock commune on string-laden suite from prolific cornetist/composer".

"The ever-mutating Exploding Star Orchestra is now jazz stalwart Rob Mazurek's core project, after decades wrestling his music into new, unpredictable shapes with groups like Isotope 217, Chicago Underground and São Paulo Underground. The 14-player lineup might have you thinking of the Sun Ra Arkestra, but "Dimensional Stardust"'s gorgeous miniatures take in Reichian minimalism, Rota-esque drama and some writing that recalls Carla Bley and Michael Mantler".