Creating a persona to "overcome his own limitations", Austrian trumpeter Franz Hautzinger adopts the name of Gomberg as an alter-ego, releasing this engaging and unconventional set of 22 succinct recordings made between 2006-2018, selected and sequenced from occasion-related compositions and commissioned works, performed on quartertone trumpet, electronics, zither, voice & percussion.

Having originally met in 2016 when Viennese trumpeter Franz Hautzinger and Quebec electric bassist Éric Normand formed Torche! with Michel F Cote, Philippe Lauzier and Xavier Charles, the two improvisers developed this collage during the pandemic from asynchronous recordings, creating six dramatic and explorative compositions of incredible and unusual technique.

An album of extended and unusual techniques between German trumpeter Franz Hautzinger and Beirut trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj, opening with only the errata of their instruments through breath and thump, slowly adding identifiable brass sounds contrasted with rich utterance and elusively electronic-sounding output, always maintaining a solid and fascinating dialog