Travel Guide

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Release Date: 23rd Sep 2013
Catalogue No: 3729508
Label: ECM
Length: 50 minutes

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Muthspiel: The Henrysons

Work length7:04

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Ralph Towner, Slava Grigoryan, Wolfgang Muthspiel
Recorded: 2012-08-27
Recording Venue: RSI Auditorium, Lugano

Towner: Father Time

Work length4:37

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Ralph Towner, Slava Grigoryan, Wolfgang Muthspiel
Recorded: 2012-08-27
Recording Venue: RSI Auditorium, Lugano

Muthspiel: Windsong

Work length6:43

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Ralph Towner, Slava Grigoryan, Wolfgang Muthspiel
Recorded: 2012-08-27
Recording Venue: RSI Auditorium, Lugano

Towner: Duende

Work length4:29

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Ralph Towner, Slava Grigoryan, Wolfgang Muthspiel
Recorded: 2012-08-27
Recording Venue: RSI Auditorium, Lugano

Muthspiel: Amarone Trio

Work length5:42

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Ralph Towner, Slava Grigoryan, Wolfgang Muthspiel
Recorded: 2012-08-27
Recording Venue: RSI Auditorium, Lugano

Towner: Travel Guide

Work length6:34

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Ralph Towner, Slava Grigoryan, Wolfgang Muthspiel
Recorded: 2012-08-27
Recording Venue: RSI Auditorium, Lugano

Muthspiel: Die Blaue Stunde

Work length5:19

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Ralph Towner, Slava Grigoryan, Wolfgang Muthspiel
Recorded: 2012-08-27
Recording Venue: RSI Auditorium, Lugano

Muthspiel: Nico und Mithra

Work length3:44

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Ralph Towner, Slava Grigoryan, Wolfgang Muthspiel
Recorded: 2012-08-27
Recording Venue: RSI Auditorium, Lugano

Towner: Tarry

Work length1:03

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Ralph Towner, Slava Grigoryan, Wolfgang Muthspiel
Recorded: 2012-08-27
Recording Venue: RSI Auditorium, Lugano

Towner: Museum Of Light

Work length5:17

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Ralph Towner, Slava Grigoryan, Wolfgang Muthspiel
Recorded: 2012-08-27
Recording Venue: RSI Auditorium, Lugano

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An international summit meeting, 'Travel Guide' features US guitarist Ralph Towner, Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel, and Kazakhstan-born and Australia-raised guitarist Slava Grigoryan. What all three share is a strong feeling for structure, a sense for lyrical improvisation and a feeling for space, harnessing instrumental technique to very graceful musical ends. Repertoire features five compositions by Towner and five by Muthspiel.

The three musicians first came together in 2005, initially for concerts in Australia, and have since toured widely. A 2009 recording on Muthspiel's Material Records label documented the group's early progress. Ralph Towner subsequently brought the project to ECM and the trio recorded this album in Lugano in August 2012, with Manfred Eicher as producer.

Ralph Towner has been a key ECM artist for more than 40 years, while Muthspiel and Grigoryan make label debuts here. Grigoryan is well known as the pre-eminent Australian classical guitarist of his generation, and Muthspiel has been an important figure on the transatlantic jazz scene for two decades, with his own bands and as a contributor to groups of Gary Burton, Paul Motian and many others.

Towner's ECM recordings have included solo albums, duo projects (with John Abercrombie, Gary Peacock, Gary Burton, Paolo Fresu), bands under his direction (including the much-loved Solstice with Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber, Jon Christensen), and the co-operative Oregon group. He has also contributed to albums by Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Kenny Wheeler and Egberto Gismonti, and guested with the group Azimuth.

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