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Frank Gratkowski / Jacob Anderskov: Ardent Grass
by Nic Jones
The reeds-piano duo is hardly overdone within the recorded canon, but then neither has it been as rare or unusual as some lineups. This particular duo is apparently not unaware of this, and there's a personality to its work that's entirely its own.There's a little of Anthony Braxton about Frank Gratkowski's alto sax playing ...
Ardent Grass
Label: Red Toucan Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Narrative; Diagnose; Ardent Grass; Asteroids; Rasa; Devotion; Downstairs; Sound Check.
Deployment
Label: Leo Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Allocation; Artifact; Cluster; Instance; Node.
Frank Gratkowski / Jacob Anderskov: Ardent Grass
by Jerry D'Souza
Over the years, reed/woodwind multi-instrumentalist Frank Gratkowski has formed a series of potent combinations with other musicians. His first was with Georg Graewe in 1992 before he went on to fruitful collaborations with Gerry Hemingway, Wilbert DeJoode, Michael Vatcher and Herb Robertson, among others. Gratkowski has the ingrained ability to turn the presence of his musical ...
New Release Red Toucan: "Ardent Grass" by Jacob Anderskov and Frank Gratkowski
Here's the brand new release from Red Toucan Records: Ardent Grass (RT 9340) Jacob Anderskov: piano Frank Gratkowski: alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet Every Red Toucan aficionado knows Frank Gratkowski, a regular on the label; here, he pairs with brilliant Danish pianist Jacob Anderskov. “Over the last decade or so, pianist Jacob ...
Gratkowski - Nabatov - Schmickler: Deployment
by AAJ Italy Staff
Suoni sottili, sgraziati, note sfumate, fuori contesto... E' quello che troviamo in questo disco, a momenti agganciato all'improvvisazione radicale inglese, in altri al free storico. Gratkowski anima l'intera session passando da situazioni che cercano un centro di gravità ad altre in cui è lui a proporsi, visceralmente, come trascinatore del trio, con una personalità che poco ...
Various Artists: Earth Music - Ten Years of Meridian Music: Composers in Performance
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Earth Music commemorates a decade of musical art presentations by the forward-thinking Bay Area Gallery founded on and operating under the firm conviction that significant art increases social, philosophical and spiritual change. It seems popular now to support the new music, which by those two words seems to imply--and this is becoming odious too--the entire artistic ...
Gratkowski / Nabatov / Schmickler: Deployment
by Glenn Astarita
Armed and prepared for battle, prominent improvisers Frank Gratkowski (reeds) and Simon Nabatov (prepared piano) align forces with computer operator Marcus Schmickler for a sequence of strategic maneuvers. They commence the Deployment with haunting overlays, via Nabatov's clustered phrasings and Schmickler's ethereal, and sometimes subliminal, overlays or interjections. Gratkowski commandeers a free form impetus, spanning boisterous ...
Oles Brothers with Rob Brown: Live at SJC
by Jerry D'Souza
Bartlomiej Brat Oleś (drums) and Marcin Oleś (double bass) have a simple adage when it comes to their music: to remain faithful to their convictions and create music that is open and requires both technical mastery and individual artistry. They have remained true to that whether playing as a Duo (Fenommedia, 2008) or with other musicians ...
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