Description
ECM: Ralph Towner, Wolfgang Muthspiel & Slava Grigoryan — Travel Guide — Audio CD
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Product Details:
- Product Type: Audio CD
- Brand / Label: ECM Records
- Artists: Ralph Towner (classical & 12-string guitars), Wolfgang Muthspiel (electric guitar), Slava Grigoryan (classical & baritone guitars)
- Release Year: 2013
- Catalog Number: ECM 2310 / 372 9508
- UPC: 602537295081
- Label Code: LC 02516
- Producer: Manfred Eicher
- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Contemporary Jazz, Guitar Trio
Product Features
- Format: CD
- Discs: 1
- Tracks: 10
- Instrumentation: classical, 12-string, electric and baritone guitars
- Made in: Germany
- Condition: Brand New, Factory Sealed
Overview
Three guitarists, three generations, one acoustic conversation. Ralph Towner, Wolfgang Muthspiel and Slava Grigoryan bring different instruments and backgrounds to the same table — Towner's classical and 12-string, Muthspiel's electric, Grigoryan's classical and baritone — and let the textures do the talking.
What makes Travel Guide work is restraint. No one crowds anyone. The interplay is conversational, lines passing between players, harmonies pooling and clearing. Towner, an ECM mainstay since the 1970s and co-founder of Oregon, anchors much of it with his unmistakable sense of space; Muthspiel and Grigoryan answer with warmth and color.
The pieces range from the gently propulsive "Father Time" to the title track and the closing "Museum of Light," with stops at "Duende," "Amarone Trio" and "Die blaue Stunde" along the way. It's chamber jazz in the truest sense — intimate, unhurried, beautifully recorded.
This is the sealed 2013 ECM edition, produced by Manfred Eicher with the label's signature clarity and depth.
Interesting Facts
- The trio brings together four guitar types — classical, 12-string, electric and baritone — across just three players.
- Ralph Towner has recorded for ECM since the mid-1970s and co-founded the influential group Oregon.
- Wolfgang Muthspiel is an Austrian guitarist who has led several acclaimed ECM dates of his own.
- Slava Grigoryan, born in Kazakhstan and raised in Australia, is known across classical and crossover guitar repertoire.
- The album was recorded and produced by ECM founder Manfred Eicher, a hallmark of the label's acoustic aesthetic.
- "Die blaue Stunde" ("The Blue Hour") is among several evocatively titled originals contributed by the trio.
Track Listing
- The Henrysons
- Father Time
- Windsong
- Duende
- Amarone Trio
- Travel Guide
- Die blaue Stunde
- Nico und Mithra
- Tarry
- Museum of Light
Publishers
Released by ECM Records GmbH (Munich) in 2013, catalog 2310 / 372 9508. Produced by Manfred Eicher. Printed in Germany.
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