Played this album daily for months when it came out, soundtracking that whole autumn and winter of 2013-4 with its gorgeous guitar trio sound, so it's been well due a fresh rediscovery by me and a posting here. Ralph Towner had already made a trio album in 2008 with Austrian Muthspiel and Armenian-Australian Grigoryan as MGT, which I really ought to have picked up ages ago, but keep getting distracted by other things. Anyway, here's their ECM debut, recorded in Lugano in August 2012.
Half the tracks are composed by Towner and half by Muthspiel, and all are beautiful interminglings of the latter's smooth, fluid electric tone and the various acoustics of the other two guitarists. My absolute favourites are Amarone Trio and the slowly unfolding opener The Henrysons, but the whole album is absolutely beautiful stuff. Highest recommendation.
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