A new album by Efren Lopez and Christos Barbas is always good news, especially if it is the first one by their acoustic duet, culminating 18 years of shared musicianship and friendship. On Atlas the two musicians reconnect with the power of the acoustic duet?s sound and it's simplicity, through a series of primarily new compositions and also melodies coming from medieval and ottoman classical traditions with a lot of space and time spent in textural and minimal improvisations. Through years of mutual interaction and shared knowledge, the duet has developed a kind of common vocabulary, a lexicon based on the musical disciplines that each of them have studied in parallel, that are juxtaposed in multiple points and combined with extensive spaces for improvisation, silence and meditation.
Tracks:
1. The sea 05:11
2. La nau 05:01
3. Ben volgra, s'esser poges 04:49
4. Hoquetus 05:29
5. Jasmin 11:15
6. Perasma 07:45
7. Kurdi Pesrev 08:39
8. Sadaf 07:20
9. Atlas 05:05
