Fred WILBO (Piano)
Charles LOOS (Piano)

Disc 1 - Fred WILBO

01. Son allure était gauche et timide
02. Heureuse la courbe
03. Métaphore
04. Maïs noir
05. 1986, en juillet
06. Ici la grève
07. Seigneur terrible de mon rire
08. Quand vous aurez fini de me coiffer
09. Et celle qui danse
10. Le lit, les eaux du ciel
11. D'autres portes
12. L'aile du vent
13. Azur
14. Mer déserte
15. Ailleurs

Disc 2 - Charles LOOS

01. Etre telle
02. Au pur délice de l'amante
03. Le mouvement, créateur du langage
04. Non, violet
05. La volonté
06. Le reniement
07. Terre fumante
08. Fini de vous haïr
09. L'impatience du poème
10. Réponse
11. Grondement de l'âme
12. Soit avec nous
13. Un cri
14. Plus bruyante qu'une criée aux poissons
15. L'histoire fut moins claire

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Listen to disc 1 - Track 2

Listen to disc 2 - Track 2

"So happy, the curve" ... is the journey of two men - Fred WILBO and Charles LOOS - passionate about solo piano in the company of a magical piano - an 1877 concert Bechstein, restored with love by it's owner Stéphane Collin. Fred is essentially a solo artist who for many years has played and recorded his own compositions. Charles is a renowned Belgian jazz painist, who has played and recorded with a multitude of artists all over the world - Chet Baker, Toots Thielemans, Philip Catherine, Maurane, Art Farmer... . One beautiful summer's afternoon, Fred WILBO took his finger and, following the "Law of Analogy", pointed it 15 times at random into the complete works of Saint-John Perse (French diplomat and poet,1887-1975, Nobel Prize 1960, who produced collections of sublime poems and meditations on the elements, civilisations, and human destiny). The first phrase from each sentence which appeared became the title of Fred's new compositions. They are purely personal in inspiration and style, but the feel would be somewhere between Erik Satie and Keith Jarrett. The year after, Fred proposed the following to his friend Charles LOOS: in the same place, on the same piano, to record 15 improvisations inspired by the same sentences. His friend agreed, and another phrase from each sentence became the title of Charles's pieces, which on this album are more eclectic, less jazz, more personal than one is used to from him. Enjoy the curve ... .

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