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Restless in Pieces

Label: ICP
Released: 2016
Track listing: Restless in Pieces; Rear/Murmurs; Blue Chopsticks; Kwijt; Lady Sings the Blues; Samba Zombie; C.E.I.: Where the Sunflowers Grow, Rambling Rake, Yon Horizon; Rollo I; Locomotive; Rollo II; One Thing All at Once; Jojo Jive; Anatole.

Article: Album Review

ICP Orchestra: Restless in Pieces

Read "Restless in Pieces" reviewed by Vic Albani


Con gli intelligenti insegnamenti di creatività e humor che l'ormai da qualche tempo fuori gioco Misha Mengelberg ha sempre inserito nella “sua" straordinariamente attiva e divertente ICP Orchestra, nonostante l'assenza del leader spirituale di quello che davvero tutti hanno sempre riconosciuto il migliore esempio di “new swing" europeo, Restless in Pieces brilla dei concetti di sempre. ...

Album

East of the Sun

Label: ICP
Released: 2015
Track listing:

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ICP Orchestra: East of the Sun

Read "East of the Sun" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


The Holland-based Instant Composers Pool (ICP) Orchestra has amassed 51 albums since its inception in 1967 and due to health-related issues, legendary co-founder, pianist Misha Mengelberg is unable to perform. But guest artist, pianist Guus Janseen duly integrates his artistry into the orchestra's distinct constitution. And of course inimitable drummer Han Bennink helps support and steer ...

Album

Circus

Label: ICP
Released: 2007
Track listing: 1. Purple (Patrucco/Bennink) - 2:53; 2. Super Market/Su su ven a nan (Patrucco/Honsinger/Mengelberg/Bennink/Baars) - 9:36; 3. Blue Fish (Patrucco/Honsinger/Baars/Bennink) - 5:48; 4. Breathing White (Patrucco/Baars) - 3:44; 5. Echo (Patrucco/Honsinger/Baars/Bennink) - 4:19; 6. Spinazie/Trata Birata (Patrucco/Mengelberg) - 2:51; 7. Desiderio (Patrucco/Honsinger/Baars) - 5:48; 8. Toddling (Patrucco/Honsinger/Mengelberg) - 6:03; 9. In the Middle of Nowhere (Patrucco/Honsinger/Mengelberg/Baars) - 5:35.

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Alessandra Patrucco: Circus

Read "Circus" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Che l’ICP Orchestra fosse essenzialmente un circo lo si sapeva da un bel pezzo. Che Mengelberg e soci fossero una masnada di burloni sempre disposti a lasciarsi coinvolgere in qualsiasi sarabanda era evidente da almeno una quarantina di anni. Che nel DNA della musica improvvisata olandese ci sia sempre stata una predisposizione quasi ideologica a non ...

Album

Aan & Uit

Label: ICP
Released: 2004
Track listing: Aan&Uit; De Sprong, O Ramanttiek der Hazen;
Picnic: A Beautiful Day; Let's Go to the River; And Have a Picnic; Play Some Badminton; Let's Go Home Before; The Sparrows Start Waving Their Pajamas;
Tijd voor de Quadrille; Barbaric; Back to Lippiza; Va-et-vient; Ever Never; Waar bleef je?; Tuinhek; Opa; Let's Climb a Hill; Aan & Uit

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ICP Orchestra: Aan & Uit

Read "Aan & Uit" reviewed by John Kelman


The Instant Composers Pool, or ICP Orchestra, is a Dutch collective that, after emerging in the ‘70s with a number of albums over a ten-year period only to then more or less disappear, has re-emerged over the past five years with a number of recordings for its own ICP label. Schizophrenic at the best of times, ...

Album

Oh, My Dog

Label: ICP
Released: 2002
Track listing: Write down Exactly; A Close Encounter with Charles

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ICP Orchestra: Oh, My Dog

Read "Oh, My Dog" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The Amsterdam based ICP Orchestra (meaning improvisation defined as an “instant composing pool”) can best be described to Americans as Carl Stalling directs the Duke Ellington Orchestra playing chamber music. Pianist Misha Mengelberg and drummer Han Bennink lead their brand of instant composing. Mengelberg, a master of the music of both Herbie Nichols and Thelonious Monk, ...


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