ICTUS’ extremely limited, outstandingly lavish 12-CD Box set includes 12 separate CDs, housed together in a one-of-its-kind unique box. Each volume of the set comes with its own custom designed plastic-free package and a very comprehensive booklet with many personal insights from ICTUS' creator. Rare pictures and essays from acclaimed critics, compliment the whole set.
ICTUS RECORDS' 30th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION
12-CD Limited edition Box-set
The Jazz Box-Set of the Year
All About Jazz New York City (December 2006)
Lovingly collected diary of an under-documented period in improvised music.
Down Beat (August 2006)
An important, if not essential collection, featuring an incredible array of talent, and priced at extraordinary value.
Cadence (January 2007)
10 CDs of Highest Artistic Integrity
Jazz House ( December 2006)
The top 10 in Jazz and Improvisation 2006
dMute (January 2006)
An Exhaustive Feast Of Classic Improv Times Past! Our Highest Recommendation!
Downtown Music Gallery (May 2006)
An incredible tribute to the long-running Ictus label -- home to some great recordings of avant jazz and improvised music over the years.
Dusty Groove (July 2006)
The appearance of the 12-CD Ictus Records’ 30th Anniversary Collection is a major event.
Point of Departure
The packaging is exquisite and has been put together with a lot of care and thought
AllAboutJazz.com (August 2006)
This most important collection of music in the history of ICTUS Records, is a celebration for the 30th anniversary of the birth of one of the first independent labels of the 70's, a tribute to all great artists that made ICTUS exist, just for the love of music.
Comprised of duos, trios, orchestras and numerous configurations in between featuring musicians like Steve Lacy, Anthony Coleman, Evan Parker, John Zorn, Tom Cora, John Carter, Gianluigi Trovesi, Derek Bailey, and the Rova Saxophone Quartet among others; the music here is immediate whether recorded 1976 or 2005.
ICTUS' extremely limited, outstandingly lavish 12-CD box-set, further pushes limits of musical subject matter, and boundaries of conceptual package, as recently re-defined by Revenant Records' release of Albert Ayler's "Holy Ghost" and NotTwo's issue of "Alchemia" by Vandermark 5. This beautifully realized set includes 12 separate CDs, housed together in a one-of-its-kind unique box. Each volume of the set comes with its own custom designed plastic-free package and a very comprehensive booklet with many personal insights from ICTUS' creator. Rare pictures and essays from acclaimed critics, compliment the whole set. Here for the first time, all of the tracks are presented in their original order and length, and are fully digitally re-mastered, which allows the listener to enjoy them in their original un-compromised beauty.
