Elina Duni/Rob Luft: Reaching for the Moon (ECM 2866)

Elina DuniRob LuftReaching for the Moon Elina Duni voice, percussionRob Luft guitars, electronicsRecorded June 2025 at Studios La BuissonneEngineer: Gérard de HaroCover photo: Jean-Guy LathuilièreMastering: Christoph StickelAlbum produced by Manfred EicherRelease date: April 24, 2026 Stranger is the heartIn the shadows it has grown apartLonely dancer, lonely larkYour song is lost, adrift from the start For her sixth foray into the ever-expanding territory of ECM records, singer Elina Duni returns alongside her most intuitive counterpart, guitarist Rob Luft, shaping a shared breath sustained across time. This meeting dispenses with the quartet format of their previous studio collaborations and settles into a two-person orbit, where every gesture carries even greater weight of intention. The result is a listening experience in which language itself becomes a constellation, each tongue a different shade of twilight, flickering against the dark. Italian, French, English, Albanian, and…