Elina Duni, Rob Luft | About "Reaching for the Moon"

“Reaching for the Moon”, the new album by singer Elina Duni and guitarist Rob Luft, is out now: https://ecm.lnk.to/ReachingForTheMoon The record includes a programme that begins with Irving Berlin’s title song and ends with Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman”. Along the way we hear Duni and Luft originals, traditional music from Kosovo, a lullaby penned by Persian singer Mahsa Vahdat, a ballad from Italian singer-songwriter Pino Daniele, French composer Gabriel Fauré’s art song “Les Berceaux”, themes for film written by Japan’s Shigeru Umebayashi and Poland’s Krzysztof Komeda, and more.