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?...

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...

it's Bandcamp Friday! icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/two-pr...

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

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

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.

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

Stealing a quote from @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social...

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...

today's official ICP #bandcampfriday release: icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/misha-...

more ICP-related #bandcampfriday....

gutenmorgen allemaal, today's ICP-related #bandcampfriday release is Practically Married: Live in Berlin practicallymarried.bandcamp.com/album/live-i...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Ya... Steve Lacy, George Lewis, Misha Mengelberg, Arjen Gorter, Han Bennink.

"Tablas, mringdam, balafons, gongs. I had a whole van full of that shit. Bells from everywhere. Now...I just like to go like Marcel Duchamp, only use a couple of sticks or a matchbox with two matches, and still play the shit out of it." Happy Birthday Han Bennink April 17, 1942

Han Bennink - Collages

Sir Han Bennink was born 83 years ago today in Zaandam, NL, happy birthday Hannie! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVeT...

nice review of Friday's LOOT album release show in today's @volkskrant.bsky.social by @gijsbertkamer.bsky.social: "Hoogland alternates his busy, lush piano parts with sometimes stunningly beautiful melody lines and Baars plays just a little more powerfully than on the record..."

This Friday night: record release concert for Oscar Jan Hoogland's LOOT (Ab Baars, Onno Govaert, Oscar Jan Hoogland, Uldis Vitols) at @bimhuis.bsky.social! Han Bennink + Oscar Jan open with a duo at 20:30, see you there! www.bimhuis.nl/en/calendar/...

Sunday 13 April at 19:15, ICP Orchestra opens for these rapscallions!

This week's Nowhere Street newsletter laments the sorry-ass state of the world and finds hope in the reporting of Liz Pelly and music of HSO, Oscar Jan Hoogland's LOOT, KUHN FU, and the trio of Michael Foster, Webb Crawford & Joey Sullivan. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

Announcing a new ICP Records release: Oscar Jan Hoogland's LOOT (Ab Baars, Oscar Jan Hoogland, Omer Govreen, Onno Govaert): icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/icp069...

En Ab Baars speelt zondag met Goncalo Almeida, Marcos Baggiani en Tony Malaby in Rotterdam in Koffie & Amacht @koffieenambacht.bsky.social fb.me/e/67rCmuvou

If you're in Amsterdam this Sunday afternoon (16 March 2025), Han is playing the Roode Bioscoop with Guus Janssen and Joris Roelofs: www.roodebioscoop.nl/han-bennink-...

"But what does the most successful group in jazz mean? Those are the groups I never listen to. It’s not very commercial but it has a tendency to commerce that is undeniable I think. And it’s not fun at all. It’s anti-fun" Misha Mengelberg: Before & After larryappelbaum.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/b...

"What is the purpose of music? The purpose. Another fantastic question. There is no direct purpose and I don't know what I'm doing. That's what I finally think." Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink. Photo by Francesca Patella

new ICP-related concert dates! 3/2/25 Zaandam (NL), Jazz Inverdan: Eric Boeren 4tet 3/12/25 Nijmegen (NL), JIN: EHBO 3/15/25 Utrecht (NL), Transition Festival: Han Bennink + Hans Dulfer 3/16/25 Amsterdam (NL), Roode Bioscoop: Han Bennink and Friends 3/30/25 Amen (NL), Cafe de Amer: EHBO