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Cornetist and composer Rob Mazurek leads his Brazilian/American ensembles São Paulo Underground and Black Cube SP on a rare US tour in April 2015 performing Return the Tides record release shows from New York to Texas  [L-R: Guilherme Granado, Rob Mazurek, Mauricio Takara | Art Work: Damon Locks | Photo: Jason Marck] The Return the Tides Tour is a celebration of Mazurek’s 50th birthday, 30 years of cutting-edge modern music, and Cuneiform's release of Return the Tides: Ascension Suite & Holy Ghost, the debut recording by Black Cube SP. Black Cube SP combines the venerable São Paulo Underground trio, comprised of Mazurek, Guilherme Granado and Mauricio Takara, with Thomas Rohrer, master of the keening rabeca (Brazilian viola). The music is electronica-laced Tropicália characterized by glistening sonic textures, unabashedly beautiful melodies, an expansive improvisational palette and fiercely gleeful interplay. http://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/listen_rob-mazurek-and-black-cube-sp_s-return-the-tides This tour will mark Black Cube SP's US live debut. Audiences should prepare to be astounded and enthralled. Be there as Mazurek's ensembles unleash a musically potent and spiritually powerful torrent of avant jazz, Brazilian folk, electronic and psychedelic music across North America! -  - psychedelic modern spirituals - Return the Tides: Ascension Suite and Holy Ghost April 2015 Record Release Tour Dates
PITTSBURGH, PA - Friday, April 10 @ 8PM
THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM Black Cube SP Record Release Show for Return the Tides 117 Sandusky Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212 412.237.8300 / information@warhol.org / http://www.warhol.org/ $15 General / $12 Students / $12 Members [PURCHASE TICKETS] Presented by The Warhol Theatre Sound Series NEW YORK, NY - Saturday, April 11 @ 8PM & 10PM THE JAZZ GALLERY São Paulo Underground Performance 1160 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10001 646.494.3625 / http://www.jazzgallery.org $22 General Admission / $12 Members [PURCHASE TICKETS] Underwriting support generously provided by the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation WASHINGTON, DC - Sunday, April 12 @ 7PM & 8:30PM BOHEMIAN CAVERNS Black Cube SP Record Release Show for Return the Tides 2001 Eleventh Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001 202.299.0800 / http://www.bohemiancaverns.com $15 General Admission / $20 Door [PURCHASE TICKETS] Presented by Transparent Productions PHILADELPHIA, PA - Monday, April 13 @ 8PM THE ROTUNDA Black Cube SP Record Release Show for Return the Tides 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 215.573.3234 / http://www.therotunda.org / http://www.arsnovaworkshop.com Free / All Ages Presented by Ars Nova Workshop BROOKLYN, NY - Tuesday, April 14 @ 8PM SHAPESHIFTER LAB Black Cube SP Record Release Show for Return the Tides 18 Whitwell Place, Brooklyn, NY 11215 646.820.9452 / http://www.shapeshifterlab.com $15 Advance/ $20 Door / $5 Student & Senior Discount [PURCHASE TICKETS] Presented by Shape Shifter+ Underwriting support generously provided by the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation NORTHAMPTON, MA - Wednesday, April 15 @ 7:30PM THE PARLOR ROOM Black Cube SP Record Release Show for Return the Tides 32 Masonic Street, Northampton, MA 01060 413.665.4036 / http://jazzshares.org / http://www.parlorroommusic.com $15 General Admission [PURCHASE TICKETS] Presented by Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares CHICAGO, IL - Friday, April 17 @ 8:30PM & 9:50PM CONSTELLATION Black Cube SP Record Release Show for Return the Tides First Set São Paulo Underground & Second Set Black Cube SP 3111 N. Western Avenue, Chicago, IL 60618 http://www.constellation-chicago.com $15 Advance / $20 Door / 18+ [PURCHASE TICKETS] URBANA, IL - Saturday, April 18 @ 9:30PM KRANNERT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS - STAGE 5 Black Cube SP Record Release Show for Return the Tides 500 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 217.333.6280 / http://www.krannertcenter.com/ Global Transfer Afterglow Series Free Admission / Open to the Public LOUISVILLE, KY - Sunday, April 19 @ 8PM DREAMLAND Black Cube SP Record Release Show for Return the Tides 810 E. Market Street, Louisville, KY 40206 http://dreamlandislouisville.org/ $20 General Admission NASHVILLE, TN - Monday, April 20 @ 9PM VFW POST 1970 Black Cube SP Record Release Show for Return the Tides 7220 Charlotte Pike, Nashville, TN 37209 615.352.9933 $15 General Admission Presented by FMRL Arts ASHEVILLE, NC - Tuesday, April 21 @ 9PM & 10PM THE MOTHLIGHT Black Cube SP Record Release Show for Return the Tides 701 Haywood Road, Asheville, NC 28806 828.252.5433 / info@themothlight.com / http://themothlight.com/ $8 General Admission [PURCHASE TICKETS] CHARLOTTE, NC - Wednesday, April 22 @ 8PM MCCOLL CENTER FOR ART + INNOVATION Black Cube SP Record Release Show for Return the Tides 721 N. Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28202 704.332.5535/ http://mccollcenter.org $10 General Admission / All Ages [PURCHASE TICKETS] Presented by New Frequencies Series Funded through generous support from the Knight Foundation WEST COLUMBIA, SC - Thursday, April 23 @ 9PM www.robmazurek.com | www.cuneiformrecords.com/tours.html Interested in booking a show: Paco Barba for North America: paco@harmonipan.com Fred Finelli for South America: contato@noropolis.net Jakob Flarer for Europe: jakob@saudades.at For press or radio interviews, album inquiries, or other information contact: Joyce, Director of Publicity & Promotion for Cuneiform Records joyce@cuneiformrecords.com - BLACK CUBE SP  [L-R: Thomas Rohrer, Rob Mazurek, Mauricio Takara, Guilherme Granado | Photo: Antonio Rossa] "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 "Mazurek finds a challenge irresistible, and this is one of his most exciting projects" - The Wire Rob Mazurek - cornet, electronics Mauricio Takara - drums, cavaquinho, electronics Guilherme Granado - keyboard, synths, sampler Thomas Rohrer - rabeca, soprano saxophone For Mazurek, the sudden and unexpected passing of his mother Kathleen Mazurek, in May 2013 set him on a quest to honor her bountiful spirit and acknowledge her transition to another realm. Compelled to compose in the days and weeks following his mother’s death, Mazurek gathered in São Paulo, Brazil with long-time collaborators Mauricio Takara and Guilherme Granado from the celebrated São Paulo Underground trio and Thomas Rohrer, master of the keening rabeca (Brazilian viola) who earned his stripes through intense studies with leading practitioners in Brazil’s northeast. Mazurek describes the recording as “a shamanistic journey where we sonically clear a path for my mother into the unknown to ensure her safe journey to the next.” Black Cube SP’s debut album, Return the Tides: Ascension Suite and Holy Ghost documents this startlingly cathartic and magisterial modern psychedelic spiritual that’s as riveting as it is ravishing.
[Click this link to read the full Return the Tides press release]
Click this link to download photos, hear sound samples and learn more about Black Cube SP: Cuneiform Rob Mazurek/Black Cube SP Website Listen and share excerpts of Return the Tides: Ascension Suite and Holy Ghost @SOUNDCLOUD / @BANDCAMP / @YOUTUBE - ROB MAZUREK  [Rob Mazurek | Photo: Guido Gazzilli] "Mazurek's cornet playing, always affecting and timbrally luminous, achieves the paradox of being simultaneously corporeal and ethereal." - The Wire Rob Mazurek - cornet, electronics, keyboard, piano
Chicago cornetist and composer Rob Mazurek’s broad electro-acoustic palette defies simple categorization and has earned him a reputation as one of the most respected figures on the international creative music and avant jazz scenes.
His expansive vision and vast catalog of over 300 compositions and 52 recordings (released on some of the world's most respected record labels) have kept him reshaping modern music's cutting edge for the past three decades with inspiration from jazz, Latin, alternative rock, modern classical, electronic and experimental music. Mazurek currently leads and composes for Chicago Underground Duo, Exploding Star Orchestra, Pulsar Quartet, and Pharoah and the Underground (featuring Pharoah Sanders). His work receives worldwide praise from publications such as The Wire (UK) and DownBeat (USA), and earned him the title of International Musician of the Year in Italy’s Musica Jazz magazine. His recordings have been listed among Top 10 Records of the Year in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune.
For more information on Rob Mazurek:
Rob Mazurek Official Website | Cuneiform Rob Mazurek Website - SÃO PAULO UNDERGROUND  [L-R: Guilherme Granado, Rob Mazurek, Mauricio Takara | Photo: Jason Marck] “A modern approach to Brazil's Tropicália, that takes into account advances in sound manipulation and engineering. It is street music from the Brazilian subterranean avant-garde and it is confusingly wonderful.” - All About Jazz “The Post-Don Cherry melodic splendor of Chicago cornetist Rob Mazurek has never been clearer, and it finds a simpatico home amid the polyrhythmic chaos forged by his Brazilian cohorts. This high-energy romp takes the sting out of the term fusion in the best possible way.” - DownBeat Rob Mazurek - cornet, electronics Mauricio Takara - drums, cavaquinho, electronics Guilherme Granado - keyboard, synths, sampler
São Paulo Underground is a power trio that links Chicago’s volatile creative music scene with São Paulo, Brazil’s leading experimental musicians.
Its music embodies a fascinating mixture of Sun Ra-esque cosmic noise with rhythms and phrasing from samba, maracatu, rock and free jazz traditions. Founded in 2005, during Mazurek’s eight-year Brazilian sojourn, São Paulo Underground’s dauntless sonic explorers continue a relentless search ten years later. São Paulo Underground rarely tours in the US, making the Return the Tides Tour an extremely special event. The ensemble will perform compositions from widely acclaimed Cuneiform releases, Beija Flors Velho E Sujo (2013) and Tres Cabeças Loucuras (2011), during four São Paulo Underground only sets in New York, Chicago, Orlando and Austin.
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Click the link to download photos, hear sound samples and learn more about São Paulo Underground: Cuneiform São Paulo Underground Website - ROB MAZUREK RECORDINGS ON CUNEIFORM Rare and collectable limited edition vinyl, CDs, and cassettes will be available for purchase during the Return the Tides Tour including the following:
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PRESS CONTACT For press or radio interviews, album inquiries or other information: Cuneiform Records Publicity & Promotion Joyce: joyce@cuneiformrecords.com (Director of Publicity & Promotion) tel. 301-589-8894 P.O. Box 8427 Silver Spring, MD 20907-842 [Washington, D.C.] www.cuneiformrecords.com www.twitter.com/cuneiformrecord www.facebook.com/cuneiformrecords www.soundcloud.com/cuneiformrecords www.youtube.com/CuneiformRecords 
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