Frank Gratkowski's In Cahoots [CD]

Frank Gratkowski'S In Cahoots - Frank Gratkowski's In Cahoots [CD]

"After playing complete improvised music with no constraints from 2016 on and releasing their first Album Torbid Dayligtht the quartet Gratkowski/Zoubek/Landfermann/Mahnig got renamed in 2023 to In Cahoots and now performs compositions by Frank Gratkowski, still with plenty of space for creative improvisation. In Cahoots also extends to a Quintet featuring Ingrid Laubrock on tenor and soprano saxophones. The new quintet version had its debut in Darmstadt 2023. Frank Gratkowski was born in Hamburg in 1963 and studied at the Cologne University of Music and Dance. He has extended his instrumental skills to include almost the entire spectrum of woodwind instruments, including flutes. He works intensively on tonal extensions and modifications of his instruments in solo projects and small formations using unorthodox playing techniques and microtonal concepts, some of which he has developed himself. As a bandleader and composer, he traverses the broad context of contemporary improvised music. There is no clear distinction between composition and improvisation in his work."