Wolfgang Muthspiel

Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel makes his ECM leader debut with Driftwood, a trio album of subtlety and depth featuring Larry Grenadier and Brian Blade. Muthspiel – who recently made his first ECM appearance on Travel Guide as a member of a cooperative trio with fellow guitarists Ralph Towner and Slava Grigoryan – has enjoyed long, productive musical friendships live and on record with both bassist and drummer. Thetrio creates a ravishing sound, captured with fidelity at Rainbow Studio in Oslo. Muthspiel has been praised by The Times of London for his “restlessmusical imagination.” Lyrical, grooving and atmospheric by turns, his compositions on Driftwood include tributes to Joe Zawinul and Michael Brecker.

PERSONNEL:

WOLFGANG MUTHSPIEL, guitar
LARRY GRENADIER, double bass
BRIAN BLADE, drums

Oslo, Norway, May 12-14 2013

TRACKS:

01. Joseph
02. Uptown
03. Cambiata
04. Highline
05. Driftwood
06. Lichtzelle
07. Madame Vonn
08. Bossa for Michael Brecker