American, Brooklyn-based drummer, percussionist, and composer Devin Gray is known as a politically motivated composer (listen to his Melt All Guns albums, Rataplan, 2021 and 2024) and innovative musician, always seeking new sonic adventures. His trio with Fellow American, Berlin-based electronics player, accordionist, and keyboard player Andrea Parkins, and German reed master Frank Gratkowski was formed in 2015 as part of Berlin’s underground scene. The trio recorded its debut album, Hz of Gold, at Lowswing Studios in Berlin in May 2021.
Hz of Gold attempts to match free jazz, electronic processing, and extended instrumental techniques within a set of Gray’s eleven compositions that trigger collective improvisations. In addition to Parkins’ electronics, Gray’s drum set is wired to Hertz MIDI software, allowing him to
