One of the leading lights in Chicago avant-jazz,
Rob Mazurek put together this sterling outing -- with "out" being the operative word here -- in 2005.
Exploding Star Orchestra's
We Are All from Somewhere Else is the very definition of out jazz, featuring, among many other instruments, double cornet, saw, marimba, and samples of electric eels. Despite the sound oddities -- or more accurately, because of them -- it's an accomplished addition to the orchestral cosmos first explored by
Sun Ra.