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As much as any group anywhere, ICP encompasses a full range of modern musics: Ellington and Monk, Kurt Weill and European dance band music of a lost age, lacy Webern – y chamber music, South African kwela, free improvisation, conducted improvisation, interactive games, counterpoint and simultaneity, catchy melodies, pastel harmonies, order and built – in chaos.
Post modern composers like to jump cut from one style to another: think Zorn. ICP’s music drifts from one locus to another like the action in a dream, where the guiding intelligence may thwart rational progress. Some compositions feature glaring wrong notes or brazenly dumb ideas; no piece exists in a definitive state. Players have the option of making some will fully idiotic melody sound better or even worse. From one performance to the next, a piece may sound radically different."

ICP’s mix is perplexing in the best sense: the music doesn’t give up its secrets on first hearing, or second, or third. It keeps you coming back. This is jazz / improvised music at its most deft and sophisticated. The musicians treat it with the reverence usually reserved for a chewed – up slipper."

Misha Mengelberg did his best work with John Tchicai and Derek Bailey IMHO. Bospaadje Konijnehol I was amazing.


Jugglo word yo, freakin wit da nutz 02'. Im out.

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