Instant Composers Pool
Instant Composers Pool (ICP) is an independent Dutch record label . The label has existed since 1967 and releases music between free jazz and improvisation . The name Instant Composers Pool , a creation by Mengelberg, is meant to be programmatic; he starts from the idea that in the musical improvisation at the moment of the game definitions are definitely made and, as it were, composed, thus denoting a fundamental unity of composition and improvisation.
Founding history
In 1967 the saxophonist Willem Breuker , the pianist Misha Mengelberg and the drummer Han Bennink founded the label in Vinkenslag de Hoef to release their own records, in which the music industry was increasingly no longer interested. According to Ekkehard Jost's analysis, the establishment of the label is "an act of self-help that is not only aimed at a market-independent publication of one's own music, but also aims to improve the performance situation and presence in the media".
In 1974, due to divergent musical views, the paths of Breuker, who concentrated on working with his Willem Breuker Kollektief and founded the BVHAAST label , and those of Mengelberg and Bennink, who increasingly worked together as a duo and created a large-format ICP formation (initially as Tentett). In the mid-seventies there were several co-productions with other independent labels from Europe.
Publications and programs
The name Instant Composers Pool is meant programmatically and a creation by Mengelberg; he starts from the idea that in the musical improvisation at the moment of the game definitions are definitely made and, as it were, composed, thus denoting a fundamental unity of composition and improvisation.
The first records document the New Acoustic Swing Duo by Breuker and Bennink and a trio by Mengelberg and Bennink with John Tchicai . In addition to the founders, Jeanne Lee , Derek Bailey , Peter Bennink , Dudu Pukwana , Steve Lacy , Paul Rutherford , Evan Parker , Maarten Altena and Peter Brötzmann can be heard on later records .
Unlike the befriended label FMP , ICP has for many years limited itself to documenting the music of the founders, and after Breuker's departure, that of Mengelberg and Bennink. It was only since 1997 that productions by other musicians from the ICP Orchestra , such as Wolter Wierbos , Mary Oliver , Tristan Honsinger and Tobias Delius , have been published on the label. The backup catalog, which includes vinyl records as well as cassettes and a video, was re-released in 2012 in a box set on 52 CDs and 2 DVDs.
Requirements and branding
Similar to HatHut Records , ICP usually works with a limited (and in some cases also numbered) edition. Since the mid-1970s, the label's products (including a book for the 30th anniversary) have had a recognizable appearance due to the idiosyncratic graphic design by Han Bennink.
literature
- Jürgen Wölfer , Lexikon des Jazz Hannibal, Vienna 1999 ISBN 3-85445-164-4 (2nd edition)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ E. Jost Europe’s Jazz: 1960-1980 Frankfurt am Main 1987, pp. 345f.