Julia Brüssel / Frank Gratkowski / Lothar Ohlmeier / Wolfgang Seidel - TOC (2021 Umland Records)

The Cologne-born (free) jazz violinist Julia Brüssel (The Dorf, Umland Collective, h i l d e) and Berlin avant-garde drummer and electronics musician Wolfgang Seidel (founding member of "Ton Steine Scherben") met in 2020. Since then, they have experimented a lot and played together in many different casts with musicians from the Berlin free jazz and real-time music scene.

They recorded several sessions of improvised music with the two wind instrumentalists Frank Gratkowski and Lothar Ohlmeier.

The CD "TOC" tells a trippy story of electronically and acoustically fused fantasies, created in various trio sessions with Frank and Lothar in 2020.

1. To come to 04:30

2. Tocotrienole 04:20

3. Toco Loco 04:24

4. Toccata 03:17

5. Atocha 03:10

6. High Toc 04:04

7. Anthrocyane 03:12

8. Slow Toc 04:44

9. Kottbusser Toc 04:43

10. Toctally 02:20

11. Tocalote 03:58

12. Toctophon 03:11

Julia Brüssel (vl) (Track 1-12)

Wolfgang Seidel (dr, perc, syn, org, el) (Track 1-12)

Lothar Ohlmeier (bcl) (Track 1-3,10-12)

Frank Gratkowski (sax, fl) (Track 4-9)

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The Resonators - Headlong (May 2021)

The band's name is not a coincidence: The sonic realm of Frank Gratkowski's new quartet echoes a number of styles and decades of musical changes. Always on the basis of free, energetic jazz, the four exceptional masters surf through 70s rock, noise with a dash of psychedelic. A breathtaking flight from Ornette Coleman's Prime Time to Jimi Hendrix.

1. It is best to dash in headlong 05:29

2. Subgame 05:43

3. Interlude 02:15

4. Baburu Keiki 04:22

5. Decision Tree 12:24

6. Conjugate Dimensions 11:13

7. Infinite Action Space 14:42

CDs will be available in July

Frank Gratkowski / Reeds

Sebastian Müller / Guitar

Reza Askari / Bass

Thomas Sauerborn / Drums

Recorded live at Loft, Cologne, Germany in February 2021

Engineered, mixed and mastered by Stefan Deistler

Produced by The Resonators

© Moral Machine Records 2021

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Flatbosc & Cautery (NoBusiness Records)

 1. Biomes 11:08

2. Roughly Parallel 12:18

3. X-ularities 8:27

4. Tenuous Links Beyond 7:37

5. Small Ways, Chasmal 21:37

6. Tangible Thin Threads 3:46

Frank Gratkowski - alto saxophone, clarinets, flutes

Achim Kaufmann - piano

Wilbert de Joode - bass

Tony Buck - drums, percussion

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Frank Gratkowski / Simon Nabatov - Mirthful Myths (LEO RECORDS 2017)

Gratkowski and Nabatov crossed their musical paths over 30 years ago and maintained this mutually rewarding creative and personal connection ever since.

Having played together in most diverse settings imaginable, here they find themselves for the first time as a duo - arguably the most honest and intimate art form in music. Open and unforced by any agenda, with so much already shared and yet so many surprises ahead, they lead a conversation about things close and very distant.

Gratkowski and Nabatov are traveling along the lines of their own mythology, letting the listener participate in their absorbing storytelling.

1. Three Tamed Furies 22:32 

2. Cloud Gatherer Awakes 12:04 

3. Eirene All Around 10:53 

4. Pan's Wanderlust 7:19 

5. Progress Of Notus 9:40 

6. At The Beginning 3:13

Frank Gratkowski alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet 

Simon Nabatov piano