Thomas Enhco – The Window and the Rain (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:42 minutes | 581 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fireflies Music
Pianist Thomas Enko, a true French nobleman who attracts many fans with his sweet mask in addition to his wonderful musical expression, releases his latest album on the ZZJAPLUS label! Guest artists Terumasa Hino and Kiyohiko Senba join him!
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Thomas Enhco – Esquisse (Didier Lockwood Selection) (2006)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:25 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fireflies Music
Enhco, a grandson of conductor Jean-Claude Casadesus and son of soprano Caroline Casadesus, began learning the violin at the age of three and had piano lessons at the age of six. As a child, he performed with the Little Jazz Band in the Seine-et-Marne region. In 1998, Didier Lockwood invited him to perform at the Jazz à Juan festival. At the age of twelve, he began taking lessons at the Center des Musiques Didier Lockwood (CMDL); during this time, he played with Mike Stern, Biréli Lagrène, André Ceccarelli and Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen, among others. At the age of 18, he had the opportunity to record his debut album Esquisse (2006) with Peter Erskine.
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Thomas Enhco & Vassilena Serafimova – Bach Mirror (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 57:10 minutes | 943 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Masterworks
On the album “Bach Mirror” the French pianist Thomas Enhco and marimba player Vassilena Serafimova give well-known and less well-known works by Johann Sebastian Bach an innovative sound. Pieces such as the Prelude No. 2 from the Well-Tempered Clavier or the Air from the orchestral suite No. 3 sound new and fresh in the unusual instrumentation of piano and marimba. With their sound painting arrangements, Thomas Enhco and Vassilena Serafimova expose Bach’s harmonic-melodic work structures and enable the audience to gain new perspectives on the architecture of his unique compositions.
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Thomas Enhco – Feathers (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:03 minutes | 560 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Division Decca Records France
Bercé par la musique classique émanant d’une lignée de musiciens doués (son père n’est autre que le chef d’orchestre Jean-Claude Casadesus), Thomas Enhco s’est fait un nom dans le jazz contemporain avec ses trois albums précédents travaillés en trio, Esquisse (2006), Someday My Prince Will Come (2010) et Fireflies (2012). Avec ce premier opus réalisé en solitaire, l’héritage familial ressort davantage au long des huit séquences composées par le pianiste.
Écrit en majeure partie à New York, Feathers évoque selon son auteur les différentes étapes d’une histoire d’amour, racontées par un piano volubile, instrument idéal pour ce qui est de transmettre toute la gamme d’émotions y afférant : la rêverie de « Watching You Sleep » que l’on croirait tirée d’un cahier de Debussy ; la passion folle de « Looking for the Moose », pièce maîtresse et savante exprimant l’enthousiasme et ses battements de coeur ; « Je voulais te dire » où la violence des sentiments laisse place à la réflexion, voire au doute ; et ainsi de suite du malicieux « Mischievous », multipliant les détours, et de « The Last Night of February », jouant sur deux tableaux (mineur et majeur).
Les plumes (feathers) du recueil sont à la fois celles de la légèreté des jambes, de la tête et du coeur qui s’emballent, et les traces qu’elles laissent quand l’histoire prend fin ou mauvaise tournure, comme dans « Letting You Go ». Les sentiments laissent alors place aux souvenirs de « Sand Creek Song » et de « I’m Fine, Thank You ». En équilibre entre l’écriture et l’improvisation, Thomas Enhco démontre une nouvelle fois ses qualités de compositeur éclectique et de virtuose sensible.
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Thomas Enhco & Vassilena Serafimova – Avalanche (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 12:08 minutes | 203 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Masterworks
A little over seven years ago, my piano teacher Gisèle Magnan called me up and said: “Hello, Thomas, I’ve discovered an utterly amazing classical percussionist, a young Bulgarian woman who plays the marimba divinely. I want you to do a concert together; it will be fantastic!”
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Thomas Enhco – Thirty (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:08:08 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
Thomas Enhco is a legend in his home country France. The twenty-something pianist belongs to a group of innovative and very daring musicians. Didier Lockwood discovered Enhco when he was just nine years old and already a promising violinist. Shortly thereafter Enhco started playing the piano, too. When he was 18 the Parisian debuted with his album Esquisse, sponsored by master drummer Peter Erskine. It was apparent that in his compositions Enhco looks to make clear connections with classical music. The album was followed by Someday My Prince Will Come and Fireflies; two powerful albums yet again, and in between he wrote the score for the movie Les Cinq Parties Du Monde and recorded a CD with drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist John Patitucci. Enhco’s lyrical way of playing the piano and ability to improvise are particularly remarkable.
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Thomas Enhco, Stéphane Kerecki – A Modern Songbook (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:16:14 minutes | 714 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Masterworks
On March 31, the live album A Modern Songbook by Thomas Enhco and Stéphane Kerecki will be released on Sony Music – a summit meeting of two virtuosos.
When the brilliant pianist Thomas Enhco and the indispensable double bassist Stéphane Kerecki interpret timeless classics such as Natural Woman by Aretha Franklin or Fields of Gold by Sting together, a smooth jazz gem with unforgettable chill ballad is created. Thomas Enhco is a pianist and composer and experimented with music in its full range from an early age: classical and popular music, written and improvised. His stepfather, the violinist Didier Lockwood, introduced him to the world of great jazz musicians. He was already immersed in the intensity of the clubs as a child and felt equally comfortable as a jazz pianist, classical soloist or composer.
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Emiliano Gonzalez Toro & Thomas Enhco – Violeta y el Jazz (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 52:23 minutes | 907 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © naïve
“Violeta Parra is a legend. Her life, her work and the person she was, continue to fascinate the public fifty years after her tragic passing. She roamed the country, looking for Chile’s forgotten folk songs, becoming the relentless ambassador of an unpretentious popular culture. Self-taught, she learnt how to sing, to write, to play the harp and the guitar. Her raw voice imprinted the history of song writing in Latin America and beyond: without Violeta, there would be no Joan Baez, no Bob Dylan! She invented and broadcasted what would then revolutionize popular music in the 60s: folk.
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Thomas Enhco & Vassilena Serafimova – Funambules (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:40 minutes | 522 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | Digital Booklet | © Deutsche Grammophon
Recorded: TAP Auditorium in Poitiers, September 2-6, 2015
Jazz pianist Thomas Enhco also recognized in the jazz world, formed a duo with percussionist extraordinary Vassilena Serafimova. Their first album, Funambules, appears to April 8 for Deutsche Grammophon. From Mozart to The Verve, from Bach to their own compositions.
Paths Vassilena and Thomas intersect at the crossroads … and there is of course Mozart: marimba and piano are found as equals in the three movements of the Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major K.448. The virtuosity and energy of the two artists are deployed with ease in this masterpiece at a time full of joy and deep, they offer us a version never heard before.
Vassilena passes naturally through the transcript to fit a Bach fugue taken from the Sonata for Solo Violin No. 1 in G Major BWV 1001. Aquarium, extracted from Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saens, is itself completely arranged for piano and marimba prepared, offering an inventive interpretation and full of madness. Thomas Enhco re-aligns Pavane op.50 by Gabriel Fauré for a darker, melancholy version of Vassilena while transforming its marimba in a hybrid instrument between organ, cello and bassoon.
He composed for the duo; Eclipse, a dreamy and romantic walk, playing the lightness of their two keyboards, Palimpsest, which painted a soft light with the woody waves of marimba while the slow piano melody is the path, as a guide in a forest Magic.
She teaches him a traditional song from his native Bulgaria, Dilmano, Dilbero they unite their voices clear, and create an epic and hair-raising work-river.
They order the American composer Patrick Zimmerli: Signs of Life – Blood Pressure drives the two instruments in a crazy race, bowing to Steve Reich pass. They give a full version of Bitter Sweet Symphony groove, worldwide hit Britpop group The Verve.