The Catch of a Ghost is a live album by German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, Moroccan guembri player Moukhtar Gania, and American drummer Hamid Drake.

Sure, we hear that familiar Brötzmann plaintive cry throughout, but the rhythms delivered by Drake and Gania are so mesmerizing... that this live date takes on a hypnotic atmosphere.

"[6] Eyal Hareuveni of The Free Jazz Collective noted "the tension between Brötzmann's spectrum of contemplative, sometimes even lyrical playing and his wild swings and the one-dimensional, repetitive and trance-like rhythm section," and praised passages where the saxophonist's "wailing answers cleverly the vocal phrases of Gania and often pushes the interplay to intense, ecstatic terrains.

"[8] Writing for The Wire, Peter Margasak commented: "the... partnership delivers magically shifting and embroidering grooves, digging into twangy, cycling patterns, and achieving a trance-inducing ecstasy where spontaneity feels preternatural.

"[9] Phil Freeman of Burning Ambulance remarked: "Brötzmann is in a questing mood, emitting long rattling cries like a phlegmatic bull and only occasionally erupting into full-on screams.