Rob Mazurek's Black Cube SP (São Paulo Underground + Thomas Rohrer) at The Blue Nile

Black Cube SP features Mazurek’s long standing São Paulo Underground trio with the addition of rabeca (Brazilian viola) master Thomas Rohrer. Rohrer earned his stripes as a master of the keening rabeca through intense studies with the instrument’s leading practitioners in Brazil’s northeast.

This performance is a record release celebration for the ensemble’s debut record, Return the Tides (Cuneiform), a startlingly cathartic and magisterial post-Tropicália psychedelic modern spiritual composed and recorded in the weeks after the unexpected passing of Mazurek’s mother. ...

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Black Cube SP features Mazurek’s long standing São Paulo Underground trio with the addition of rabeca (Brazilian viola) master Thomas Rohrer. Rohrer earned his stripes as a master of the keening rabeca through intense studies with the instrument’s leading practitioners in Brazil’s northeast.

This performance is a record release celebration for the ensemble’s debut record, Return the Tides (Cuneiform), a startlingly cathartic and magisterial post-Tropicália psychedelic modern spiritual composed and recorded in the weeks after the unexpected passing of Mazurek’s mother.

You learn more about Black Cube SP, download photos, hear sound samples and access press info at: http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/robmazurekoctet.html#tides.   

Mazurek (cornet, electronics)
Mauricio Takara (drums, cavaquinho, electronics)
Guilherme Granado (keyboard, synths, sampler)
Thomas Rohrer (rabeca, soprano saxophone)

"4 1/2 Stars" - DownBeat

"Mazurek's cornet playing, always affecting and timbrally luminous, achieves the paradox of being simultaneously corporeal and ethereal." —  The Wire 

"Mazurek's most personal and poignant offering to date; cathartic and compelling, it combines avant-garde jazz expressionism, bold electronic experimentation and hypnotic Tropicália rhythms with a profound spirituality." — All About Jazz 

"Nothing less than an aural spirit quest.” — Jazz Times 

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