Chicago Underground Duo

What's it about?

USARob Mazurek - trumpet, piccolo trumpet, RMI electric piano, synths, samplers, voice, flutes, bells Chad Taylor - drums, percussion, mbira, kalimba Re-emerged after eleven years: the Chicago Underground Duo of Rob Mazurek and Chad Taylor with their eighth album "Hyperglyph" on International Anthem. The two composers, also "trumpeter/electronicist" (Mazurek) and "drummer/mbiraist" (Taylor), sum up these individual parts into an "oversized ambience" (JazzTimes), driven by rhythms from Nigeria, Mali, Zimbabwe and Ghana, in the free flight of improvisational interplay as is typical for the Windy City between Arkestra and AACM. In other words: this duo builds a mountain of music. But: "Once we climb the mountain, we have to deal with what's on the other side."