Peter Brotzmann

Catching Ghosts (614427997029)

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Title Catching Ghosts

Author Peter Brotzmann

Label ACT

EAN 614427997029

Reference ACT 174026

LABEL CODE 614427997029

STYLE JAZZ

DISCS NUMBER 1

• DIGIPACK EDITION

The 2022 Jazzfest Berlin performance by revered, iconoclastic reedist Peter Brötzmann, Moroccan Gnaoua adept Majid Bekkas playing the two-stringed, camelskin-backed guembri, and Chicago-bred drummer Hamid Drake, documented as Catching Ghosts, is historic.

It’s a return to performance by 81-year-old Brötzmann after pandemic years affected his health, and recalls his prior Gnaouan encounters, like The Catch of a Ghost (2019) with guembri master Maâlem Moukhtar Gania, and a 1996 meet with Maâlem Mahmoud Gania at Austria’s Music Unlimited Festival (Hamid there both times). It also is a triumph of musical universalism, made in the moment without even one rehearsal, proving that “free” spontaneous interactions can transcend cultural lines, still deriving power from age-old traditions.Improvising on incantations from Gnaoua liturgy, Brötzmann,...