ICP ORCHESTRA: ON DREAM LIVE IN NOISY-LE-SEC 2003

Director: Guy Girard

Year: 2003

Time: 41 mins

Music

Misha Mengelberg

Mary Oliver

Tristan Honsinger

Ernst Glerum

Ab Baars

Michael Moore

Wolter Wierbos

Thomas Heberer

Tobias Delius

Han Bennink

Eye of Sound: Sometimes Duke, sometimes duck. A broken ballad will quickly morph into a spinning waltz of dissonant melodies and then build into harmonic skyscrapers that were not made to last. Fluid, fast, seductive, sometimes even glamorous cascades of sound; intensely psychedelic, fractal patterns of bliss that are nevertheless human and soulful; radiant and joyful as the few happy sundays we have in our lives - the ICP will settle for nothing less. As for the film, it is filled with liquid effects distorting the image, a welcome "innovation" in concert-films that adds to the fractality of ICP's music (although the excessive focus on Bennink is rather unjustified, given the Orchestra's philosophy and the abounding excellency of the remaining players). An excellent concert displaying some of the best jazz music in Europe today. And watch out for an incendiary hyper-textual take on Monk's Criss-Cross. 

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JOHAN VAN DER KEUKEN ON ANIMAL LOCOMOTION (1994)

Director: Johan van der Keuken

Year: 1994

Time: 15 mins

Music:

Willem Breuker - Composer, Bass Clarinet

Peter Barkema - Soprano Sax

Alex Coke - Flute, Piccolo

Nico Nijholt - Trombone

Bernard Hunnekink - Tuba

Henk de Jonge - Piano

Arjen Gorter - Bass

Rob Verdurmen - Drums

Han Bennink - Drums

Lorre Lynn Trytten - Violin

Aimee Versloot - Viola

Susanne Degerfors - Cello

Eye of Sound: Shot in several European locations, this short film is defined by the director as a "self-portrait in locomotion". It is difficult to discern a plot or a general meaning in this collection of images, except for the admittedly vague possibility of a repertoire of what keeps humans going, and an insistence on motion. Breuker has been Keuken's companion in most of his films, endowing them with his brand combination of meticulous orchestral composition and open-space improv. On Animal Locomotion features Keuken's typical free-form sensibility and quasi-ethnographic approach to the documentary genre, much in the same way that Breuker's score literally runs across fields of unsurpassable lyricism and irreparable fracturation. 

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HAN BENNINK & KEIJI HAINOTOKYO 10.2.2008

Year: 2008

Time: 37 mins

Music: Han Bennink & Keiji Haino

Eye of sound: Veterans in the production of impromptu creative sound, Haino and Bennink offer the audience an excellent performance, pampering both our ears and our eyes. Mostly serene, spacious, with occasional bursts of energy. Time to listen, space to watch. 1+1=6.

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GLOBE UNITY ORCHESTRA BERLIN 7.11.1970

Director: Gianni Paggi

Year: 1970

Time: 32 mins

Music:

Alexander Von Schlippenbach: piano, percussion, leader
Evan Parker: soprano & tenor saxophones
Peter Brötzmann: tenor, baritone saxophones, bassetthorn 
Kenny Wheeler: trumpet, flugelhorn
Derek Bailey: guitar
Manfred Schoof: trumpet, flugelhorn, bachtrumpet
Peter Kowald: tuba, bass
Gerd Dudek: soprano, tenor saxophones, flute 
Heinz Sauer: baritone, tenor & alto saxophones 
Paul Rutherford: trombone, tenor horn
Tomasz Stanko: trumpet 
Bernard Vitet: trumpet
Albert Mangelsdorff: trombone
Malcolm Griffith: trombone
Buschi Niebergall: bass, bass trombone
Paul Lovens: drums, percussion
Arjen Gorter: bass, electric bass
Han Bennink: drums, shell-horn, dhung, gachi
Eye of Sound: The mythical Unity spreading in an all-star team. Three pieces (Von Schlippenbach, Manfred Schoof, Peter Brötzmann) for the collective embodiment of sonic discipline and aural freedom.

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