Saturday, May 22, 2021

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)