{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Floating Ice | type = studio | artist = Michael Bisio & Matthew Shipp | cover = Floating_ice_cover.jpeg | alt = | released = 2012 | recorded = January 17, 2012 | venue = | studio = Parkwest Studios, New York City | genre = Jazz | length = 57:52 | label = Relative Pitch | producer = Michael Bisio, Mike Panico | chronology = Matthew Shipp | prev_title = Elastic Aspects | prev_year = 2012 | next_title = Rex, Wrecks & XXX | next_year = 2013 }}
'''''Floating Ice''''' is an album by American jazz bassist Michael Bisio and pianist Matthew Shipp, which was recorded in 2012 and released on Relative Pitch Records. It was their first recording together as a duo.
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Down Beat'' | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="DownBeat"/> }} In a review for ''JazzTimes'' Mike Shanley notes that "Although the musicians occasionally digress into personal tangents, they always manage to reconnect before things get too chaotic. ''Floating Ice'' offers an engaging look at their thought process."<ref name="JazzTimes">Shanley, Mike. [http://jazztimes.com/articles/66031-floating-ice-michael-bisio-matthew-shipp-duo ''Floating Ice'' review] at ''JazzTimes''</ref>
The All About Jazz review by Troy Collins states "''Floating Ice'' is a revealing portrait of two master improvisers engaged in spontaneous discourse, with every nuance of their attentive interplay captured in minute detail."<ref name="AAJ">Collins, Troy. [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/floating-ice-michael-bisio-relative-pitch-records-review-by-troy-collins.php ''Floating Ice'' review] at All About Jazz</ref>
The ''Down Beat'' review by Michael Jackson says that "Matthew Shipp has an interest in the sweet science of boxing, and it doesn’t surprise given his knuckle-dusting duck ’n’ dive pianism.. Shipp’s music is speedball attack and shadow boxing."<ref name="DownBeat">Jackson, Michael. ''Floating Ice'' review. ''Down Beat'' December 12: page 96. Print.</ref>
In a review for ''The Guardian'' John Fordham says "It's free-jazz, but full of melody, and every sound counts."<ref name="Guardian">Fordham, John. [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/dec/13/matthew-ship-floating-ice-review ''Floating Ice'' review] at ''The Guardian''</ref>
==Track listing== :''All compositions by Bisio / Shipp'' # "Floating Ice" – 8:09 # "The Queen's Ballad" – 7:04 # "Swing Laser" – 9:04 # "Disc" – 6:37 # "Supernova" – 6:53 # "Holographic Rag" – 10:28 # "Decay" – 9:37
==Personnel== *Michael Bisio – bass *Matthew Shipp – piano
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Category:2012 albums Category:Michael Bisio albums Category:Matthew Shipp albums Category:Relative Pitch Records live albums