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Rob Mazurek - director, trumpets, bells, voice, compositions
Nicole Mitchell - flute, voice, electronics
Damon Locks - voice, samplers, electronics
Tomeka Reid - cello, electronics
Craig Taborn - wurlitzer electric piano, moog, electronics
Angelica Sanchez - wurlitzer electric piano, moog
Ingebrigt Haker Flaten - bass
Chad Taylor - drums
Gerald Cleaver - drums

Recorded Live in the Grainger Sky Theater of Adler Planetarium, Chicago, March 24th, 2023.

On March 24 2023, Rob Mazurek assembled his endlessly psychedelic and explorative large ensemble Exploding Star Orchestra under the dome of Chicago's Adler Planetarium to perform material from their recently released album Lightning Dreamers along with a number of new pieces. A digital projection flashed an ever-changing stream of vividly colored, abstract shapes derived from Mazurek's paintings and animations over the audience's heads, while the Orchestra, which on this night numbered eight musicians besides its leader, transformed the stylistically disparate pieces from Lightning Dreamers into an enveloping maelstrom.