Well, I didn't get far in recapping some end-of-year in preparation for my own musical favorites of 2025, when I started this back in November. (Even though I've been doing lots of listening!)

But no time like the present.

Tonight, so far:

Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra - Holy Mountains

I listened to this a few times already this year -- it's good but i never fell in love with it. At its best, it reminds me a bit of Damon Locks' "NOW," a record I deeply love. But I feel like you have to wade through too much meandering and skronk before you hear them lock into the most interesting stuff.

"Afterburn (Parable 400)" and "Parable 3000" are the best of the bunch, I think? I have a feeling this set goes hard live, but maybe fizzles a bit on record, at least for me.

#RobMazurek #ExplodingStarOrchestra

Rob Mazurek - Exploding Star Orchestra – Parable 3000

[from the album «Live at the Adler Planetarium», 2024]

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/parable-3000

#FediRadio #jazz #AvantGarde #RobMazurek #ExplodingStarOrchestra

Parable 3000, by Rob Mazurek - Exploding Star Orchestra

from the album Live at the Adler Planetarium

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Bonjour les mastonautes,

N'oubliez pas que le #BandcampFriday commence à 9h (heure de Melun) ce jour, c'est l'occasion d'acheter quelques perles.
Au hasard, un nouveau #CrysCole :

https://cryscole.bandcamp.com/album/making-conversation

Et un album de #LaetitiaSonami, qui fut élève d'#ElianeRadigue :

https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/a-song-for-two-mothers-occam-ix

Un album de #BenniHemmHemm en vente exclusivement aujourd'hui et pour lequel, demain il sera trop tard :

https://bennihemmhemm.bandcamp.com/album/dau-inn-f-rist-n-r

Sans oublier un #RobMazurek avec son #ExplodingStarOrchestra :

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-adler-planetarium

Et le nouvel album de l'#OrchestreToutPuissantMarcelDuchamp :

https://orchestretoutpuissantmarcelduchamp.bandcamp.com/album/ventre-unique

Making Conversation, by crys cole

3 track album

crys cole

Stars align and Oli Heffernan brings his ever-(d)evolving Ivan The Tolerable to Riot Season for two LPs of sublime entropic drift.

https://riotseasonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/vertigo

#nowplaying #goodmorning #alicecoltrane #rock #avantgarde #explodingstarorchestra #jazz #milesdavis #noiserock #psych #psychedelic #psychedelicjazz #psychedelicrock

Vertigo, by IVAN THE TOLERABLE QUINTET

6 track album

Riot Season Records

🔊 #NowPlaying on #fip

Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra & Exploding Star Orchestra & Rob Mazurek & Damon Locks & Nicole Mitchell:
🎵 Autumn pleiades

#RobMazurek #ExplodingStarOrchestra #DamonLocks #NicoleMitchell

Exploding Star Orchestra mixes avant-garde jazz with some psychedelic, some modern music and fusion to create high concept music that presents a unique sound.

Latest addition to our site https://thepropagandasite.com/artist/exploding-star-orchestra

#tPsNewEntry #ExplodingStarOrchestra #music #musicdiscovery

photo credit: Alex Inglizian

Exploding Star Orchestra | the PROPAGANDA site

Exploding Star Orchestra is an ensemble founded by its trumpeter and director Rob Mazurek. The size of of the orchestra and its membership

Lightning Dreamers, by Rob Mazurek - Exploding Star Orchestra

5 track album

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