ICTUS Bologna
***** ITALY
www.ictusrecords.com
info@ictusrecords.com
www.ictusrecords.bandcamp.com
Start : 1976
Owner : Andrea Centazzo and Carla Lugli.
Distr. : IT -
US - Forced Exposure
Style : reissue / free jazz / improv. music / avantgarde /
ICTUSRE 001 STEVE LACY AND ANDREA CENTAZZO : CLANGS LP 01.2022
01. Steve Lacy And Andrea Centazzo - The Owl
02. Steve Lacy And Andrea Centazzo - Torments
03. Steve Lacy And Andrea Centazzo - Tracks (Part One)
04. Steve Lacy And Andrea Centazzo - Tracks (Part Two)
05. Steve Lacy And Andrea Centazzo - Dome
06. Steve Lacy And Andrea Centazzo - The New Moon
Ictus Records' reissue initiative fittingly begins with Clangs, the first LP issued
by the label in 1976. Featuring Steve Lacy on soprano saxophone, bird calls, and
pocket synthesizer (or "crack box"), with Andrea Centazzo on drums, percussion,
whistle, and vocals, the album is the culmination of a couple of weeks that the
two artists spent together while Lacy was touring Italy during that year. Clangs
encounters Lacy -- one of the giants of American free jazz -- already two decades
into a career defined by brilliant collaborations with Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry,
and Thelonious Monk, as well as a sprawling body of visionary work as a leader.
Like so much of his work leading into this period, it draws upon the saxophonist's
belief that an artist should "play what you feel", a position that Centazzo -- roughly
15 years Lacy's junior -- recalls as having torn down the curtain that separated his
technique from his creativity. Comprising a series of duets that investigate timbral
relationships, the fragmentation of melody, and abrasive, provocative noise -shifting
from the sparse, airy, and restrained, to dance clusters of interplay and back
again -- Clangs, for all its radicalism and forward-thinking gestures, rests firmly
within the historic structures of jazz, deploying the idiom of theme/solo/theme.
Lacy's playing is at the top of his form -- fluttering and dancing with a primal
touch -- met by Centazzo's rattle and pattern of percussive interventions, the notes
and polyrhythms of each respective player being the product of careful listening,
response, and raising the bar. Edition of 250.
https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/ICTUSRE.001LP.html
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ICTUSRE 002 DEREK BAILEY AND ANDREA CENTAZZO : DROPS LP 01.2022
01. Derek Bailey And Andrea Centazzo - Drop One
02. Derek Bailey And Andrea Centazzo - Recapitulation, Reiteration and Rabbits
03. Derek Bailey And Andrea Centazzo - How Long Has This Been Going On?
04. Derek Bailey And Andrea Centazzo - Drop Two?
05. Derek Bailey And Andrea Centazzo - Tutti Cantabile
06. Derek Bailey And Andrea Centazzo - Drop Three
07. Derek Bailey And Andrea Centazzo - Drop Four?
08. Derek Bailey And Andrea Centazzo - Sing, Sing, Sing, Sing, Sing
09. Derek Bailey And Andrea Centazzo - Jim Never Seems to Send Me Pretty Flowers?
Reissue, originally released in 1977. In the history of free improvised music, there
has been arguably no greater advocate for the idiom's power and potential than the
English guitarist Derek Bailey. Fiercely principled, between his emergence during
the 1960s and his death in 2005, he cut a wide path, positioning this music at the
height of creativity, transpiring in real time, and a means through which people from
diverse backgrounds could come together, express, and commune. For Bailey, "playing
is about playing with other people... Improvisation is a process that gets
relationships sorted out." Among many great examples of this within Bailey's
sprawling discography, a stand out is his 1977 duo LP Drops -- originally issued
as the third album on Ictus -- recorded with the Italian percussionist/drummer
Andrea Centazzo. Capturing the guitarist during one of his most prolific and
creatively visionary periods -- overflowing with explosive clarity, dialogic energy,
and imagination -- he clearly found a perfect foil in Centazzo, who recalls of the
sessions: "The kaleidoscopic quality of Drops was created by this restraint of
performing limits, i.e. the choice of instrumental timbres, dynamics and metronome
speeds to suit each piece. We explored some aspects of our improvisational art,
gleaned the best elements from our baggage of music memories and exposed them
clearly and confidently." Comprising nine individual improvisations, Drops encounters
each of its players at their best, finding a strange middle ground between the
intuitive logics of their instruments; Bailey's tones taking on decidedly percussive
approaches, while Centazzo's fractured polyrhythms and beats often veer toward the
presence of a notable tonality. Remarkably expressive and diverse in the approach of
each piece, Drops presents creative interplay at its most striking and challenging,
rethinking the terms of musicality and collaboration every step of the way. Flurries
of rattle back and forth, sculpting barbed and pointillistic landscapes of texture,
stripped of reference and precedent, and abstract as real time organized sound comes.
Edition of 250.
https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/ICTUSRE.002LP.html
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ICTUSRE 003 STEVE LACY/ANDREA CENTAZZO/KENT CARTER : TRIO LIVE LP 01.2022
01. Steve Lacy/Andrea Centazzo/Kent Carter - The Crust
02. Steve Lacy/Andrea Centazzo/Kent Carter - Existence (Tao1)
03. Steve Lacy/Andrea Centazzo/Kent Carter - The Way (Tao2)
04. Steve Lacy/Andrea Centazzo/Kent Carter - Bone (Tao3)
05. Steve Lacy/Andrea Centazzo/Kent Carter - Ducks
Originally issued in 1977, Trio Live was recorded in 1976, only a handful of days
after Steve Lacy and Andrea Centazzo's Clangs (ICTUSRE 001LP) was laid to tape,
presumably capturing another moment on the same two-week tour that had rendered the
recordings for its brilliant predecessor. This time, the pair -- Lacy and Centazzo
-- is joined by the American bassist, Kent Carter, a sinfully under-appreciated artist
who had worked extensively in Steve Lacy's group, played on the two Jazz Composer's
Orchestra LPs, and toured in the bands of Don Cherry, Alan Silva, Mal Waldron, Bobby
Bradford, Max Roach, Roswell Rudd, Derek Bailey, John Stevens, Trevor Watts, Steve
McCall, and many others. The previous year, he had also delivered the stellar LP, Kent
Carter Solo With Claude Bernard, as Ictus's second LP, allowing Trio Live to be
understood as a narrowing of an already tight circle, despite its slightly expanded
ensemble. Arguably best defining the first two entries in the Ictus reissue series
-- Clangs and Drops (ICTUSRE 002LP) -- is a sense of rigorous and artistry. While
no less present across the length Trio Live, what takes the forward charge throughout
its five tracks is a sense of joy and pure pleasure in playing together. The sounds
and structural interventions are locked in and tight, feeling at ease and intuitively
responsive in the ways that players with a history of collaboration are only able to
produce. From swinging and chugging to stepped back and sparse combinations of rhythm
and tone -- moving from the lingering sensibilities of straight-ahead jazz to
radically out hard blow fire -- Trio Live is a cornucopia of brilliant artistry
and improvised music. Edition of 250.
https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/ICTUSRE.003LP.html
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ICTUSRE 004 JOHN ZORN/ANDREA CENTAZZO/EUGENE CHADBOURNE/TOM CORRA LP 01.2022
/TOSHINORI KONDO/POLLY BRADFIELD:ENVIRONMENT FOR SEXTET
01. John Zorn/Andrea Centazzo/Eugene Chadbourne/Tom Corra/Toshinori
Kondo/Polly Bradfield - First Environment for Sextet
02. John Zorn/Andrea Centazzo/Eugene Chadbourne/Tom Corra/Toshinori
Kondo/Polly Bradfield - Solo Improvisations (Part One)
03. John Zorn/Andrea Centazzo/Eugene Chadbourne/Tom Corra/Toshinori
Kondo/Polly Bradfield - Second Environment for Sextet
04. John Zorn/Andrea Centazzo/Eugene Chadbourne/Tom Corra/Toshinori
Kondo/Polly Bradfield - Solo Improvisations (Part Two)
Reissue, originally released in 1979. Recorded live at WKCR Radio in New York City
in 1978 and issued by Ictus the following year, Environment for Sextet encounters
John Zorn at the earliest stages of his career, resting within a sextet of a new
generation of stunning improvisers emerging at the tail end of the '70s who would
go on to define a vast swath of the '80s sound -- Polly Bradfield on violin, Andrea
Centazzo on percussion, Eugene Chadbourne on guitar, Tom Corra on cello, and Toshinori
Kondo on trumpet -- it roughly builds on the series of collaborations that had f0.
on Centazzo's 1978 Ictus LP U.S.A. Concerts. Launching from a total wall of sound
-- full throttle fire on the boundaries of outright noise -- Environment for Sextet
takes the listening on an endlessly surprising journey through its players' inner
world, shifting between airy open passages that feature endless combinations of one
or more players, to furious moments of sonorous lashings where the group falls in
together in brilliant dialogical periods of conversant texture and tonal intervention.
An engrossing and relentless listen from the first moment to the last -- featuring
two works built from two of Andrea Centazzo's earliest graphic scores -- Environment
for Sextet is an absolutely stunning body of improvised work by what were then among
the most important rising stars on the free music scene. Edition of 250.
https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/ICTUSRE.004LP.html
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