June 2021: Happy Birthday Misha!
MISHA @ 86
Today would’ve been the maestro’s 86th birthday, and our friend Benjamin Herman put together a lovely episode of his NPO Soul & Jazz / NTR podcast devoted to Misha’s music. The announcements/spoken parts are in Dutch but the music is….music! Here it is.
MISHAKOSMOS: A SERIOUS BOOK OF MISHA TUNES
This October will see the release of the first official book of Misha Mengelberg compositions, MISHAKOSMOS: The Music of Misha Mengelberg (ISBN 978-90-824144-7-9). It will be a “real book”: hardcover and professionally spiral-bound, featuring more than 75 pieces of Misha’s music ready to play or otherwise engage with, designed for fans, teachers, students, and especially the performing musician.
Curated and collated by Michael Moore, the list of compositions includes Blues After Piet, Peer’s Counting Song, the Rollos, Gare Guillemins, Samba Zombie, Who’s Bridge, and of course the perennial favourite De Sprong O Romantiek der Hazen, but also plenty more.
Quantities will be limited! If you’d like to pre-order for a discounted price (€25 not including shipping), please send us an email at subdist@gmail.com (with a Subject line of MISHAKOSMOS and your shipping address included) and we’ll get you sorted out.
KOMEN & GAAN (ICP066)
Komen & Gaan is still racking up the accolades, garnering a 4-star review in this month’s Downbeat magazine:
It’s tempting to say of this one that “you really had to be there.” An Instant Composers Pool concert has always been more of a happening than a regular gig, and this one finds a relatively unusual lineup taking over a small café/restaurant/gallery in the north of Holland and making music not just in the venue, but with the venue. Players move from room to room, hence the “coming and going” title. Le Brocope’s dogs get involved. There’s a pianola on the premises, which gets an airing. Huge fun is had by all…—Brian Morton, Downbeat July 2021.
Remember, you can check out video clips of the making of the album here on the ICP YouTube channel, and/or get yourself a copy of Komen & Gaan as well as ICP065 (Han and Guus) and ICP064/063 (Han and Oscar Jan Hoogland) here or here.
TOUR DATES
ICP is out and about performing shows in September and October 2021! Of course, this being 2021, all details are subject to change including venue, personnel and COVID protocol, but please follow along for updates on our Concerts page.
BANDCAMP DIGITAL RELEASES
We continue to release new (and new/old) music exclusively to our Bandcamp page. Stay tuned for previously-unreleased selections from 1983 and 1997 in the next couple of months!
ICPBOX
We also continue to get our hands on a few copies of the ICP 50-CD boxset here and there. If you don’t have one yet, there’s still a chance! Available now from both the ICPShop and Subterranean…as are all our other still-in-print releases. And, if you do have the box already, please get in touch with us: we have solved the mystery of ICP 017/018 and have a free download for you (email Mark at subdist@gmail.com).
SUPPORT
Lastly, a reminder that we still have an ANBI status, which means that any donations are tax-deductible (in the Netherlands). If you’d like to support us directly, well we have a PayPal link for that 🙂
Better yet : order some ICP merchandise – help and enjoy at the same time.
That’s all for now,
Stay safe and healthy!
Susanna & ICP