We are excited to announce the signing of Elina Duni + Rob Luft to Concerted Efforts!
Today, vocalist Elina Duni and guitarist Rob Luft continue their musical journey with Reaching for the Moon, a duo recording that follows up their previous ECM Quartet Albums, 2020’s Lost Ships and 2023’s A Time To Remember
Listen to the new record HERE.
Reaching for the Moon is Elina Duni’s sixth ECM recording, and her third with Rob Luft. The Swiss-Albanian singer and the UK guitarist have been developing their musical project since 2017, when they first met at a Montreux Jazz Festival workshop. They share interests in a very broad span of music, as reflected in their quartet albums Lost Ships (2020) and A Time To Remember (2023). The new album, featuring just the core voice/guitar duo, is their most intimate to date, and in its quiet way as adventurous and far-reaching as its predecessors. Its hushed atmospheres often feel nocturnal, and the song texts of the duo’s originals and the pieces they have chosen to interpret frequently allude to aspects of the night. The arc of the program opens with Irving Berlin’s “Reaching for the Moon” and concludes with Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman”, where Margo Guryan’s lyric begins, “Lonely in the night she wanders…”