Small Labyrinths

Marilyn Mazur

Small Labyrinths
Release date: 17.03.1997 ECM 1559
CD18,90 €out of print
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Marilyn Mazur is best known today as the flamboyant percussionist at the heart of the Jan Garbarek Group (Twelve Moons, Visible World), speeding around an ever burgeoning array of multi-ethnic metal, wood and clay instruments. Garbarek: "Marilyn is like the wind. An elemental force." Prior employers Gil Evans, Wayne Shorter, and Miles Davis have similarly valued her pervasive, penetrating percussion. Marilyn drew up the blueprint for Future Song – an American-Danish-Nowegian-Yugoslavian musical alliance – while working the stadiums with Miles in 1989 and the group has survived with intact personnel for eight years. Mazur says: "The music is intended to be like a living organism, expanding through specific dramatic sequences into more open structures. It represents a wide dynamic spectrum, explores many emotions." Small Labyrinths is the Danish-American percussionist’s leader-date debut for ECM.

Featured Artists Recorded

August 1994, Sun Studio, Copenhagen

  • 1A World Of Gates
    (Marilyn Mazur)    02:12
  • 2Drum Tunnel
    (Audun Kleive, Marilyn Mazur)    02:24
  • 3The Electric Cave
    (Eivind Aarset, Marilyn Mazur, Nils Petter Molvaer)    01:43
  • 4The Dreamcatcher
    (Marilyn Mazur)    05:45
  • 5Visions In The Wood
    (Audun Kleive, Klavs Hovman, Marilyn Mazur)    05:30
  • 6Back To Dreamfog Mountain
    (Marilyn Mazur)    06:03
  • 7Creature Talk
    (Audun Kleive, Marilyn Mazur)    01:11
  • 8See There
    (Marilyn Mazur)    07:18
  • 9Valley Of Fragments
    (Marilyn Mazur)    01:21
  • 10Enchanted Place
    (Marilyn Mazur)    03:12
  • 11Castle Of Air
    (Marilyn Mazur)    04:20
  • 12The Holey
    (Marilyn Mazur)    07:13

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