Ray Lema & Laurent de Wilde – Wheels (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Ray Lema & Laurent de Wilde – Wheels (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 45:07 minutes | 711 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
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This project showcases a union between two artists expressing their infinite love of the piano after years of joint concerts and international collaboration.

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Ray Lema and Laurent de Wilde – Riddles (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Ray Lema and Laurent de Wilde – Riddles (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 46:14 minutes | 754 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gazebo

Internationally renowned jazz pianist, Laurent de Wilde has been described as an exciting and passionate musician. Born in the United States in 1960, de Wilde spent his formative years (1964 to 1983) in France where he was immersed in French culture, music and literature eventually studying philosophy at the “Ecole Normale Supérieure” in Paris. In 2016, “Riddles”, a piano duo album where African legend Ray Lema and de Wilde “play as few notes as possible and just the right ones”, was released. In concert, this project reaches its full potential and has lead to the duo performing regularly on French and European stages.

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Laurent de Wilde – Life is a movie (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Laurent de Wilde – Life is a movie (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 53:44 minutes | 918 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gazebo

Being a jazz musician often involves being confronted with the unexpected: booed yesterday, cheered today, ignored tomorrow, used to cellars or palaces, constantly on the move and prone to accidents, we go through life as if at an angle according to our meetings and our commitments. That is why, tossed around by our destinies, the only reasonable way for us to keep our balance is undoubtedly to cultivate an affectionately ironic distance from everything that happens to us, a little as if we were the characters of a film that another would have written and whose twists and turns we discover as we go. The director and the screenwriter keep changing, sometimes it’s a drama, sometimes a comedy, sometimes an action movie or even a story where everything and nothing happens at the same time, a bit like Godard who left us the day before the day we returned to the studio. These are some of these moments or sensations that inspired the titles of this recording, with the complicit participation of Donald and Jérôme who cultivate with rare elegance this way of being totally involved in their art while maintaining a perspective full of humor. The result is this three-part album where the word flows freely, a kind of soundtrack to the film of our lives whose tomorrows have yet to be written but whose present expresses all the joy and pleasure of playing together.

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