Catching Ghosts
    Catching Ghosts
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STYLE: JAZZ

Catching Ghosts

Peter Brotzmann

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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,...

PERSONNEL:

  • Peter Brötzmann - (tenor saxophone & clarinet)
  • Majid Bekkas - (guembri & voice)
  • Hamid Drake - (drums & percussion)

TRACKS:

  • 01. Chalaba ...... 16:11
  • 02 Mawama ...... 07:11
  • 03 Hamdouchia ...... 14:01
  • 04 Balini ...... 05:33
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