For the ICP Tentet's debut album, a crack team of Dutch improvisers from the Instant Composers Pool are bolstered not only by German flamethrower Peter Brötzmann, but also by a couple of bona fide legends of US free jazz: John Tchicai, who took part in Coltrane's epochal Ascension session, and Alan Silva who provided the bottom end for Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra. Yet, rather than leaning closer to a fire music aesthetic, the date steers a perverse course towards a kind of European Dada cabaret, guided by pianist Misha Mengelberg's impish compositions. In many ways, it's quintessential Dutch jazz/improv: playful, mischievous, irreverent and gleefully aware that it's breaking the rules, with tunes mashing together ragged cha-cha-cha, comedy vaudeville marches, wonky waltzes, strolling jazz with silly unison vocal scat, and episodes of straight-faced chamber improv. Michel Waisvisz adds a frisson of unpredictability with his homemade crackle box – a rudimentary electronic noise maker – while Brötzmann wobbles out a vibrato so wide it suggests how Ayler might have sounded if he'd been thinking of the circus rather than the church. Bags of fun.