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Memento
First duo album by pianist Marilyn Crispell and bassist Anders Jormin: four free improvisations and seven compositions by the two. Recorded July 2025 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Reaching for the Moon
Duo album by singer Elina Duni (voice, percussion) and guitarist Rob Luft (guitars, electronics): songs by Irving Berlin, Pino Daniele, Fauré, Ornette Coleman, Kosovan tradition and three originals. Recorded June 2025 at Studios La Buissonne, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Memories of Home
First duo album by guitarist John Scofield and bassist Dave Holland: nine of their own compositions, five by Scofield and four by Holland. Recorded August 2024 at NRS Recording Studio, Catskill, New York, produced by the two musicians.
Topos
Duo album by Greek lyra player Sokratis Sinopoulos and pianist Yann Keerim: free reworkings of Bartok's six Romanian Folk Dances alongside four originals. Recorded February 2024 at Sierra Studios, Athens, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Unfolding
First duo album by clarinettist Louis Sclavis and pianist Benjamin Moussay: nine new pieces, two-thirds by Moussay, the rest by Sclavis. Recorded March 2024 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Transylvanian Dance
Pianist Lucian Ban and violist Mat Maneri arrange Transylvanian songs and dances collected by Béla Bartók. Recorded live on 29 October 2022 at CJT Hall, Timișoara, for the Retracing Bartók project; produced by Steve Lake.
Our Time
Second duo album by Trygve Seim (soprano and tenor saxophones) and Frode Haltli (accordion): originals, improvisations, Ukrainian and North Indian songs, a Stravinsky coda. Recorded June 2023 at the Himmelfahrtskirche, Munich, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2813, 2024.
Outpost of Dreams
Duo album by Norma Winstone (voice) and Kit Downes (piano): four Downes pieces, songs by John Taylor, Carla Bley, Ralph Towner and Aidan O'Rourke, two traditionals, nine with Winstone lyrics. Recorded April 2023 at Artesuono, Udine, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2811, 2024.
Touch of Time
Debut duo album by Arve Henriksen (trumpet, electronics) and Harmen Fraanje (piano): ten pieces, mostly co-written, between improvisation and written themes. Recorded January 2023 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2794, 2024.
A Short Diary
Duo album by drummer Sebastian Rochford and pianist Kit Downes, music written after the death of Rochford's father, poet Gerard Rochford, recorded February 2020 at the family home Waverley, Aberdeen. CD, ECM 2749, 2023.
Face à Face
Duo improvisations by Barre Phillips (double bass) and György Kurtág jr. (synthesizers, digital percussion, live electronics). Recorded in 2020 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Lontano
Second duo album by cellist Anja Lechner and pianist François Couturier: improvisations, original pieces and music by Dutilleux, Kancheli, Brahem, Bach and Ariel Ramírez. Recorded October 2019 at Sendesaal Bremen, produced by Manfred Eicher.
La misteriosa musica della Regina Loana
Duo tribute to Umberto Eco by Gianluigi Trovesi (piccolo and alto clarinets) and Gianni Coscia (accordion), inspired by his novel The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. Recorded November 2017 to January 2018 at Night and Day Studio, Cascinagrossa.
The Transitory Poems
First duo album by pianists Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn, recorded live on 12 March 2018 at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, and produced by Manfred Eicher. Eight improvised pieces, several dedicated to Cecil Taylor, Muhal Richard Abrams, Geri Allen and Jack Whitten.
Playing The Room
First duo album by trumpeter Avishai Cohen and pianist Yonathan Avishai, two originals plus themes by Coltrane, Ellington, Ibrahim, Coleman, Milt Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Sasha Argov, recorded September 2018 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Epistrophy
Live duo album by guitarist Bill Frisell and double bassist Thomas Morgan, recorded in March 2016 at the Village Vanguard, New York, during the run that produced Small Town. Pieces by Monk, Motian, Strayhorn, John Barry and traditional songs. Produced by Manfred Eicher.
Temporary Kings
Duo album by Mark Turner (tenor saxophone) and Ethan Iverson (piano): six Iverson pieces, two by Turner and Warne Marsh's Dixie's Dilemma, recorded June 2017 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.
White
Duo album by guitarist Marc Sinan and clarinettist Oğuz Büyükberber (both also on electronics), built around 1916 field recordings of Armenian prisoners of war. Recorded October 2016 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Small Town
Duets by Bill Frisell (guitar) and Thomas Morgan (double bass), recorded live at the Village Vanguard, New York, in March 2016: Motian, Konitz, Frisell originals, Wildwood Flower, Fats Domino and Goldfinger. Produced by Manfred Eicher.
a cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Duo album by Vijay Iyer (piano, Fender Rhodes, electronics) and Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet), centred on a seven-part suite for the Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi. Recorded 17-19 October 2015 at Avatar Studios, New York, produced by Manfred Eicher.