Stanislav Bobrytskyy / Frank Wilke / André D. / Henner Gräf

André D. – electric bass

Henner Gräf – drums

Frank Wilke

His first musical preferences in the mid sixties of the last century were acquired on parental turntable player sitting cross-legged. Even here, there was a strong interest in wind music. After a classical education on tenor saxophone in the 1990′ years and a prolonged musical dormancy departure from the saxophone occured and starting the self-taught trumpet playing was about time in 2005, later adding the trombone and french horn, with an emphasis on free jazz. Within this context his music is supported by a spontaneously designed compositional framework with an emphasis on formal details.

Stanislav Bobrytskyy

Started to play piano in 1992 at music school. Played in metal bands as keyboardist in 2000s while being biochemistry student getting interested in contemporary jazz, rock-in-opposition and free improvisation. Since 2007 have been playing in Cthulhu Rise, avant-prog/jazz-metal which is his primary band at the moment. Being interested in finding his own way of creating dynamic and detailed acoustic situations, since 2010 he became more concentrated on improvised music, whether it has jazz roots or not.”

André D.

Musician without borders, motivated by atonal and improvised music, he has been conducting sound experiments both in groups and solo situations since the end of the 90s. In 2011, he created “Darius Improvise” to produce & play free-form music (free-jazz, experimental, electro-acoustic, noise, improv…), until now and meanwhile new projects, several albums were published by European, U.S and Australian netlabels. Now in association with musicians from around the world, he explores the musical possibilities offered by the new electronic communication channels of our time.

Henner Gräf

“Drummers are important within the band and alongside with the guitarists they drag from most girls!” I was told as a teenager. So I became a young drummer… The 80 `s passed in various punk bands in the Dortmund (Germany), as “THC” or “Chauvinist and Friends”. It was then in 1990 the deliberate departure from the classic drumplay; further learning of various percussion instruments and the turn to

metric free playing. It arose as a result the participation in various projects of improvised music (like the cult band “Rudi pohlt”) within a pool of musicians from the Ruhr area, whose common goal was and still is a “play together” as the form of communication. 2009 foundation of the trio ‘freivomhieb’ with Frank Wilke (brass) and Uwe Juchum (reeds).