This beautifully realized set includes ten single CD's recorded or re-mastered and released by ICTUS Records in 2007; all albums housed together in elegant cardboard box, measuring 6 x 8.5 x 6. Each audio CD comes with its own DVD-type packaging, with extensive artwork, release information, and line notes . Each volume of the set has a specific and separate character reflecting the cultural influences of time and the place where the music was composed and recorded; many artistic soul, one artistic vision. ICTUS catalog and additional bonus CD complement the whole set.

ICTUS 509
ICTUS MASTERS OF CREATIVE MUSIC
10 CD's box-set

This beautifully realized set includes ten single CD's recorded or re-mastered and released by ICTUS Records in 2007; all albums housed together in elegant cardboard box, measuring 6 x 8.5 x 6. Each audio CD comes with its own DVD-type packaging, with extensive artwork, release information, and line notes . Each volume of the set has a specific and separate character reflecting the cultural influences of time and the place where the music was composed and recorded; many artistic soul, one artistic vision. ICTUS catalog and additional bonus CD complement the whole set.

This box-set consists of 10 volumes:

Volume 1

THE SOUL IN THE MIST
Perry Robinson / Nobu Stowe / Andrea Centazzo

Recorded live in concert, with the clarinet legend Perry Robinson and the up-and-coming Japanese pianist Nobu Stowe, the album not only stands as one of the newly recorded ICTUS productions but also states the beginning of a new creative path for Andrea Centazzo.

Tracks:
1. The Soul In The Mist
2. Another Situation
3. The Cry
4. Twenty Years Later
5. Last Song
6. Pan Dance
7. A Foggy Day In Philadelphia
8. The Voices

Performed by:
Perry Robinson - clarinet
Nobu Stowe - piano
Andrea Centazzo - percussion, kat mallet, keyboards, sampling

Recorded:
live in Philadelphia (11/11/06) and Montclair (11/14/06)

Volume 2
FLIGHTS OF FANCY
Suite in 5 movements in memory of Paul Rutherford (1940-2007)
Guido Mazzon Sextet feat. Paul Rutherford

To compose or to play is like writing on a "tabula rasa" (clean slate) where I draw sounds, emotions and create intimate relationships with my partners. (Guido Mazzon)

Tracks:
1. Flights of Fancy - Movement #1
2. Flights of Fancy - Movement #2
3. Flights of Fancy - Movement #3
4. Flights of Fancy - Movement #4
5. Flights of Fancy - Movement #5

Performed by:
Guido Mazzon - trumpet, conductor
Paul Rutherford - trombone
Renato Germaia - saxophones
Rudy Migliardi - tuba
Umberto Petrin - piano
Tiziano Tononi - drums

Recorded:
Noci, Italy, June 25, 1993

Volume 3
LA TAPES
Hideki Kato / Marco Capelli / Andrea Centazzo

I always consider myself a composer using percussion and keyboards as one of many means I'm using (orchestra included) to give life to my music. That's why in an album making, the conceiving before ad the editing after are so important to me. (Andrea Centazzo)

Tracks:
1. Movement I
2. Movement II
3. Movement III
4. Movement IV
5. Movement V
6. Movement VI

Performed by:
Andrea Centazzo - percussion, kat mallet, keyboards
Marco Capelli - acoustic guitar
Hideki Kato - double bass

Recorded:
at the Cafe Metropol, Los Angeles, July 2006

Volume 4
THE WARRIORS
Toshinori Kondo / Eugene Chadbourne / Andrea Centazzo

Long awaited, never before published live chronicles of legendary Kondo / Chadbourne / Centazzo 1979 Italian tour. The document of the time, the music, and one of the direction of the improvised art form in late 70s.

Tracks:
1. The Warriors #1
2. The Warriors #2
3. The Warriors #3
4. The Warriors #4
5. The Warriors #5
6. The Warriors #6
7. The Warriors #7
8. The Warriors #8

Performed by:
Toshinori Kondo - horns
Eugene Chadbourne - guitars
Andrea Centazzo - percussion, synthesizers

Recorded:
live at Teatro del Bibiena, Bologna, Italy, April 1979

Volume 5
THE VOYAGERS
Hans-Peter Salentin / Sylwia Bialas / Andrea Centazzo

The musical journey of three voyagers into the universe of free improvisation, musical European traditions, jazz avant-guard, ambient and post-electric Miles.

Tracks:
1. Ayers Rock
2. Temples in Ubud
3. Nikko Shrine
4. Cerimony in Goa
5. Mahe Shore at down
6. Okawango
7. Troms Fjord
8. Dakar Airport
9. Isle of Man
10. Tundra
11. Back Home

Performed by:
Andrea Centazzo - percussion, keyboards
Hans-Peter Salentin - trumpet, flugelhorn
Sylwia Bialas - voice

Recorded:
Bologna, Italy, August 2007

Volume 6
DARKLY
Lol Coxhill / Franz Koglmann / Andrea Centazzo

Centazzo was also performing few duo concerts with Koglmann and this CD presents tracks in the 3 combinations. All materials were recorded live in Vienna, Innsbruck and Bologna. Hard core of the CD is the Vienna Bosendorfer Saal Concert, one of the best, if not the best, of this trio.

Tracks:

1. Darkly #1 (Bosendorfer Saal Concert)
2. Darkly #2 (Bosendorfer Saal Concert)
3. Darkly #3 (Bosendorfer Saal Concert)
4. Darkly #4 (Bosendorfer Saal Concert)
5. Darkly #5 (Bosendorfer Saal Concert)
6. Darkly #6 (Kogelmann - Centazzo Duo)
7. Darkly #7 (Kogelmann - Centazzo Duo)
8. Darkly #8 (Kogelmann - Centazzo Duo)

Performed by:
Lol Coxhill - soprano saxophone
Franz Kogelman - trumpet
Andrea Centazzo - percussion

Recorded:
live in Vienna, Austria, 1981/1983

Volume 7
DARKLY AGAIN
Lol Coxhill / Franz Koglmann / Andrea Centazzo

The collaboration between Andrea Centazzo and Lol Coxhill lasted few years and saw mainly the two playing in duo or with the trumpeter Franz Koglmann. All materials were recorded live in Vienna and Innsbruck in Austria in 1979 and 1983.

Tracks:
1. Darkly #1
2. Darkly #20
3. Darkly #30
4. Darkly #40
5. Darkly #50
6. Darkly #60

Performed by:
Lol Coxhill - soprano saxophone
Franz Kogelman - trumpet
Andrea Centazzo - percussion

Recorded:
live in Vienna & Insbruck, Austria1979/1983

Volume 8
MOOT & LID
Lol Coxhill / Giancarlo / Schiaffini  / Andrea Centazzo

The collaboration between Andrea Centazzo and Lol Coxhill lasted few years and saw mainly in 3 different combination the two playing in duo or with trombonist Giancarlo Schiaffini or with the trumpeter Franz Koglmann. In 1987 Coxhill, Centazzo and Schiaffini met in Pistoia for a recording session that originated the LP MOOT.

Tracks:
1. Mooting #1
2. Mooting #2
3. Mooting #3
4. Mooting #4
5. Mooting #5
6. Mooting #6
7. Lid #1
8. Lid #2
9. Lid #3
10. Lid #4
11. Lid #5

Performed by:
Lol Coxhill - soprano saxophone
Giancarlo Schiaffini - trombone
Andrea Centazzo - percussion

Recorded:
in Pistola, Italy, June-July 1978

Volume 9
A NEW SHOCK
Gianluigi Trovesi / Andrea Centazzo

Gianluigi Trovesi is one of the most respected Jazz musicians of our time: he recorded extensively for ECM, ENJA and other major labels in different combinations with the best Jazz players in the world. SHOCK was recorded in 1983 followed by a concert tour and many other recordings in different combinations

Tracks:
1. Shockmakers's shop
2. Cen. Tro.
3. A day in Tunisia (...or somewhere around there)
4. RUMBLE
5. Tre.Ce.
6. Shock She Shock the shock & shot
7. Shock in concert: Solos

Performed by:
Gianluigi Trovesi - bass clarinet, piccolo clarinet, alto sax, soprano sax
Andrea Centazzo - percussion, gongs & cymbals, vibraphone, marimba and bass marimba

Recorded:
in Bologna, Italy, January 1984, except track #7 recorded in Passariano, Italy, July 7, 1984

Volume 10
THE J.O.B.
The Noboru Jones Experience

Noboru Jones, a native Californian, is one of the most remarkable new voices rising from the underground Los Angeles contemporary scenes. This state of the art jazz recording is a cross over of ECM-style jazz, improvised music and world music with a taste of new age on the top. Dream-like atmospheres in the typical contemporary digital sound.

Tracks:

1. The Middlesex
2. Lullaby
3. Take the five
4. Hard road
5. Nothing is lost
6. The guitar song

Performed by:
Noboru Jones - keyboards, percussion
Roberto Ottaviano - saxophones, voice
Lutte Berg - guitars

Recorded:
in Bologna, Italy, January 1984, except track #7 recorded in Passariano, Italy, July 7, 1984