Echoes by Gilbert Isbin and Stephen Altoft
Music for Guitar/Electronics and Trumpet/Flugelhorn
This album is the result of an intense yet fruitful meeting in Brugge in 2025, where we recorded our improvisations live- mostly without electronic soundscapes. This approach led us to play, sometimes cool, jazzy melodies combined with experimental sounds. These tracks compliment, develop further and echo our previous albums.
Gilbert Isbin is Belgium's leading modern composer for classical guitar, early music intruments, bass, ukulele, small ensembles…and also a wonderful guitarist. His music blends European improvisation and jazz styles with modern classical techniques to create a unique soundworld. Melodic and avant garde tendencies are balanced to capture the listener immediately and yield rich rewards from repeated listening. His written music is published (Mel Bay, GuitarbyMasters, Modern Guitar Harmony, Uk Lute Society, Edizioni Curci, Hal Leonard, ...) and performed worldwide.(Jazz'halo magazine)
gilbertisbin.com
Stephen Altoft is dedicated to the creation of new repertoire for the trumpet and flugelhorn. As a solo artist, and with percussionist Lee Ferguson as duo Contour, he has given concerts throughout Asia, Europe, the United States and Canada. He is particularly working on microtonal trumpets and microtonal flugelhorn. Stephen has recorded for radio and televison (SWR, WDR, Deutschlandfunk Köln, Deutschland Radio in Germany, BBC Radio 3 in the UK, France 3 and Bulgarian National Television) and for the Budapest Music Center (Peter Eötvös), Microtonal Projects, Edition Wandelweiser, Wergo and Another Timbre labels.
Stephen is Artistic Director of Microtonal Projects, and manages the EUROMicroFest. Stephen Altoft is a former student of Markus Stockhausen.
www.stephenaltoft.com
Tracklist
| 1. | Echoes 1 | 3:45 |
| 2. | Echoes 2 | 2:45 |
| 3. | Echoes 3 | 2:14 |
| 4. | Echoes 4 | 2:06 |
| 5. | Echoes 5 | 5:30 |
| 6. | Echoes 6 | 1:22 |
| 7. | Echoes 7 | 2:47 |
| 8. | Echoes 8 | 3:03 |
| 9. | Echoes 9 | 3:26 |
| 10. | Echoes 10 | 3:37 |
| 11. | Echoes 11 | 2:43 |
| 12. | Echoes 12 | 3:19 |
| 13. | Echoes 13 | 2:16 |
| 14. | Echoes 14 | 2:52 |
| 15. | Echoes 15 | 2:23 |
| 16. | Echoes 16 | 2:53 |
| 17. | Echoes 17 | 2:35 |
| 18. | Echoes 18 | 5:00 |
Credits
Gilbert Isbin, classical guitar/ quarter-tone guitar, electronics. Stephen Altoft, trumpet /quarter-tone trumpet quarter-tone flugelhorn
Recorded, edited, mastered by Gilbert Isbin
Cover by Marie-Anne Ver Eecke
License
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