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MISHA MENGELBERG / PETER BROTZMANN / EVAN PARKER / PETER BENNINK : Groupcomposing

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Format: CD [CvsD|CD056]
Shipping Weight: 0.08lbs
Label: Corbett vs. Dempsey

2,424円

'Corbett vs. Dempsey presents a reissue of Misha Mengelberg's Groupcomposing, recorded in 1970 and originally released in 1978. Comprised of a one-time international free music supergroup, and originally released as the sixth production on pianist Mengelberg and drummer Han Bennink's ICP label, Groupcomposing has been largely absent from the history books. This is the case because the record has been so unavailable, certainly not as a comment on the magnitude and magnificence of the music. With its Bennink cover (take that Andy Warhol!) and its two side-long tracks, it is an improvised music aficionado's treasure. Mengelberg and Bennink are joined by Bennink's brother, Peter Bennink, on alto saxophone and bagpipes(!), with an incredible reed section of Evan Parker and Peter Brotzmann, Paul Rutherford on trombone, and Derek Bailey on guitar. Moving from peaks of intensity to droning deescalation, totally improvised live in concert in 1970, Groupcomposing should be heard in the company of related records like Brotzmann's Machine Gun (CF 020LP, 2018) and Nipples (CF 013LP, 2016), early London Jazz Composer's Orchestra and Globe Unity Orchestra, and Manfred Schoof's European Echoes (CF 008LP, 2013. The music is reissued here for the first time as a stand-alone CD, with original album art and an interior salon of never-published period photographs by Gerard Rouy. The first in an ongoing series of ICP reissues on Corbett vs. Dempsey, Groupcomposing restores a classic LP to its rightful place in the canon.'

Tracklist
1 Groupcomposing, Part 1 18:43
2 Groupcomposing, Part 2 23:45

Credits
Alto Saxophone, Bagpipes ? Peter Bennink
Cover [Cover Art] ? Han Bennink
Design [CD Design By] ? David Khan-Giordano
Drums, Percussion ? Han Bennink
Edited By [Publication Editor] ? Corbett vs. Dempsey, Kate Pollasch
Guitar ? Derek Bailey
Photography By [Photos By] ? Gerard Rouy
Piano ? Misha Mengelberg
Producer [Reissue Produced By] ? Jim Dempsey, John Corbett
Recorded By ? Alwin Mulder, Onno Scholtze
Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone ? Evan Parker
Tenor Saxophone ? Peter Brotzmann
Trombone ? Paul Rutherford

Notes
Recorded in Rotterdam, May 14, 1970 ...
On the replica cover Han Bennink is credited playing two rare instruments. One is called Gachi which is a is a slim metal trumpet to be found in the surroundings of lake Tchad, at the Kanuri in Nigeria and at the Fulbe in northern Kamerun. It is usually made of two parts (about 2 meters long) and it has normally two tones a fifth apart.
Track durations given on the release are: Track 1 - 18:52 and track 2 - 23:48