Imaginary Icebergs

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• A Cage Is A Kiln
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• An Entire Night Itself
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• Radio Amaranth Excerpt
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About Imaginary Icebergs:

Imaginary Icebergs is an improvising chamber ensemble composed of 2 violins, viola, cello, clarinet, alto clarinet, and bass clarinet, with Mark Orton as composer performing on guitar, banjo, and field organ. Their sound is thick with reeds and bows, as much medieval viols as a victrola playing a long forgotten latin big-band, a cylinder motet.

Their name is derived from the poem by Elizabeth Bishop:

We'd rather have the iceberg than the ship
although it meant the end of travel.
Although it stood stock-still like cloudy rock
and all the sea were moving marble...

A debut CD is planned for the end of 2009.

Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/imaginaryicebergs