corto. alto
Scottish composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Liam Shortall, aka corto.alto has had an incredible couple of years : his debut album ‘Bad With Names’ was shortlisted for the iconic Mercury Prize (2024), won ‘Best Album’ at the Scottish Jazz Awards, and won ‘Act Of The Year’ at the Jazz FM Awards (2025), public vote with Ezra Collective and Nubya Garcia the other two nominees. In 2024, the band played 75 shows, including closing the We Out Here main stage, North Sea, Montreux, Cross The Tracks and a sold-out UK tour culminating in playing to 2000 people in his home town at the legendary Barrowland Ballroom. In 2025, they’ll play the legendary West Holts stage at Glastonbury and headline the Sunrise stage at Latit...
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Scottish composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Liam Shortall, aka corto.alto has had an incredible couple of years : his debut album ‘Bad With Names’ was shortlisted for the iconic Mercury Prize (2024), won ‘Best Album’ at the Scottish Jazz Awards, and won ‘Act Of The Year’ at the Jazz FM Awards (2025), public vote with Ezra Collective and Nubya Garcia the other two nominees.
In 2024, the band played 75 shows, including closing the We Out Here main stage, North Sea, Montreux, Cross The Tracks and a sold-out UK tour culminating in playing to 2000 people in his home town at the legendary Barrowland Ballroom. In 2025, they’ll play the legendary West Holts stage at Glastonbury and headline the Sunrise stage at Latitude.
After BWN, Liam released a remix EP and his next album ‘30/108', dropping 30 tracks in 30 days. Fresh from their first US shows at SXSW 2025, the band just released a new tune - 31.Bleep (01) -, with more music to come before the end of the year.