Ray Lema – Hommage à Franco Luambo: On entre KO, on sort OK (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:39 minutes | 708 MB | Genre: Jazz
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For the 10th anniversary of the Label Day, Ray Lema released the album of the concert recorded in Kinshasa at the Jazzkif Festival in June 2019. Concert already legendary, the album will be available in limited edition for the day label in double vinyl and CD on April 24, 2020. Ray Lema will present his work in the form of an informal conversation with Kerwin Maysio at the Bellevilloise Forum on April 16 at 6 p.m. The presentation will be followed by an acoustic mini-concert with Ray Lema, Fredy Massamba, Ballou Canta and Rodriguez Vangama. Signature, listening to the album and coktail will close the evening. Free admission (capacity 200 people).
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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)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 46:14 minutes | 754 MB | Genre: Jazz
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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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Ray Lema – Transcendance (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:51 minutes | 498 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Transcendence as a trance, because in all black music trance is an underlying element. Transcendence as dance because the rhythm and the groove are at the base of all the music of the musician of Congolese origin. And finally, transcendence as surpassing: cleavages, its own limits, its fears and its comfort zone. For this project Ray Lema has brought together a sextet composed of Michel Alibo on bass and Nicolas Viccaro on drums for rhythm, the young Brazilian guitarist Rodrigo Viana who has accompanied him for ten years and two brass Irving Acao tenor sax and Sylvain Gontard on the trumpet. The nine unreleased tracks of Transcendence have returned to us by ear and have never come out.
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