Chicago Underground Duo

Chicago Underground Duo is the long-running collaborative project of trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist and electronics tinkerer Rob Mazurek and drummer and percussionist Chad Taylor. Taylor has also kept the beat for Jaimie Branch's "Fly or Die" and Marshall Allen's "Ghost Horizons". In their duo - named after their hometown, where electric blues and jazz once took root - they explore the sonic possibilities of collective improvisation. Piccolo trumpet, live sampling and modular synthesizer meet virtuosically layered rhythmic textures.

"Hyperglyph" is their first album since "Locus" eleven years ago and the eighth release from a duo that formed nearly thirty years back. The three movements of Mazurek's "Egyptian Suite" are dedicated to his mentor Bill Dixon, who died in 2010. Intense and moving.