In honor of Tomas Schmit's archives being digitalised (drawingmatter.org/tomas-schmit...) we decided to release ICP010 on Bandcamp this morning:
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/icp010...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpqz...
In August 1977 ICP put on a festival for their 10-year anniversary and invited their friends and collaborators from FMP in Berlin and Incus in London, Gérard Rouy was there and has assembled and narrated this beautiful photoessay.
Freshly unearthed video of Han and Misha live in Groningen, NL, January 1977, a rare look at the instrument-switching/sharing days when both Misha and Han would play piano and violin and whatever else was within reach:
youtu.be/FU2N9sGBFP0?...
you can watch it back at the same url right now, we think the stuttering was a live thing, let us know if things aren’t resolved!
hey all, two things: 1) it's Bandcamp Friday, and we have a new release out: icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/icp-or...
2) tonight's sold-out show at De Pletterij in Haarlem is being simulcast from the Pletterij website, showtime is 20:00 NL time (GMT + 2), link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1uO...
Very pleased to announce a So Watt special for this year's London Jazz Festival. This time: Derek Bailey and Jeremy Marre's landmark series about improvisation, projected from the best materials. In stereo and in full and in a single afternoon. November 15th.
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
Also, tomorrow for #bandcampfriday we're going to be making our entire digital discography available (all 50 releases) for the grand and totally arbitrary price of €216.50....but not til tomorrow!
For your #bandcampfriday consideration: ICP Orchestra's 2004 release "Aan & Uit" (if you can wait til tomorrow to purchase then Bandcamp will waive their standard commission):
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/icp-or...
This Friday (29 August), at Amsterdam's historic Theater de Roode Bioscoop: MISHA'S MOMENTS, featuring Oscar Jan Hoogland with Jannes Deurvorst (1st set), followed by Guus and Wim Janssen (2nd set), please come celebrate the music of #mishamengelberg with us:
www.roodebioscoop.nl/mishas-momen...
sorry, we were faked out by Misha's t-shirt, we now have the actual physical photo in our hands and the photographer is Marco Ugolini, sorry for the miscredit!
hey everyone, we're going to be releasing this 1987 album on ICP Orchestra's bandcamp page in a couple of days (for #bandcampfriday), but this is also probably your last chance to own it on COMPACT DISC (!!!), we found a couple of boxes squirrelled away:
www.subdist.com/shop/p/icp-026
and...it was Tokyo, 1986 :)
I agree that the formatting and house style seem to match KAB more than JAZZ LIFE at this point, i haven't found a satisfying list of back issues for either of them at this point...still looking....
Heyy, thank you very much for your detectivizing! we will be reunited with our laptop this afternoon and will see what we can dig up about JAZZ LIFE…we do know about Yamashita’s work with Sakamoto…in any case, more soon, thanks again!
brand new ICP Orchestra from Misha's 90th birthday celebration last month: 2 sets, almost 120 minutes of music:
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/icp-or...
#mishamengelberg #hanbennink #michaelmoore #abbaars #tobiasdelius #maryoliver #guusjanssen #haraldaustbo #joostbuis #ernstglerum #thomasheberer
all leads welcome :)
RIP Louis
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/track/from-t...
#louismoholo
you're now followed, but if that didn't work email is subdist at gmail dot com...
go for it!
thanks Roz, nice writing!
thx Jason, that date sounds/looks about right based on the youthful exuberance he's radiating in these photos ;) so far it's a bit of an anomaly in the collection, it seems candid enough to have to have been taken by someone in the band or mgmt but no one recalls taking it...but we'll have a look!
Misha Mengelberg (1935-2017) was born on this day in Kyiv, Ukraine, we are celebrating tonight with an ICP Orchestra performance at Amsterdam's Bimhuis, hope to see some of you there:
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/track/no-ide...
Afternoon re-up: Anthony Braxton turns 80 today and to celebrate, my label has just put out 6 hours of previously unreleased live music from 1985 with Marilyn Crispell, Mark Dresser and Gerry Hemingway. Get yourself one.
hey Roz! are you talking about ICP026? we'll release it on August 1, the next #bandcampfriday....
TONIGHT (27 May 2025): MISHA KOSMOS festival 2025 featuring the music of #MishaMengelberg kicks off at Splendor Amsterdam, presented by Michael Moore:
www.splendoramsterdam.com/en/agenda/11...
a very nice review of our recent 2025 release Rite of Spring by our old friend Abe Goldstien:
papatamusredux.com/2025/05/23/r...
We are in the process of digitizing Misha’s archive and trying to determine who took these wonderfully unexpected photos of Misha being a tourist in what we can only assume is…Chicago? #mishamengelberg
We have a new #bandcamp release today: Joris Roelofs + Guus Janssen + Han Bennink: Rite of Spring. Three virtuosos having fun with Monk, Ellington, and some more unexpected classics:
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/rite-o...
