ICP 013 MENGELBERG – HAN BENNINK – MIDWOUD 77 ORIG 1st Press Free Jazz RARE

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MISHA MENGELBERG & HAN BENNINK: “Midwoud 77”

Label: Instant Composers Pool

Label Number: ICP 013

Rare Original 1st DUTCH Pressing from 1977 as released on the highly collectible INSTANT COMPOSERS POOL – ICP label. Rarely surfaces…Great copy EX~NM.

GRADING:

LP Record Set: Excellent

Jacket: Near Mint

Some words on this issue: INSTANT COMPOSERS POOL - BENNINK, HAN & MISHA MENGELBERG: “Midwoud 77” (ICP – ICP-013) First original pressing and one of the rarest ICP titles. A very strange record in every possible way and the rarest of the ICP catalogue as Bennink and Mengelberg decided to delete it as they though the audio was not up to their standards. Officially it’s a reissue of ICP013, which was a set of six 7-inch flexi-discs of the duo recorded in 1972, but it contains different performances not even from the same period as the first issue so it is a different recording all together. It’s extraordinary low-grade recording that only adds to the overall appeal of the visceral music on display. Mengelberg most of the time plays a single piano line with one hand in a style best described as paralytic. Bennink sticks mainly to percussion and turns it into the minimalist record of the free jazz pantheon. Bennink seems to be listening hard to Mengelberg and constantly taking cues from him, but as Mengelberg does next to nothing this restricts Bennink’s scope a good deal. It’s all very odd – one is invited to stick one’s head into this glorious set of almost unmitigated rarified bleakness. But the whole effect, including the large contribution the recording quality makes to it, is obviously entirely deliberate. Just plain fantastic and one of my fave’s out of the entire ICP catalogue.

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