Time Keeper Laurent Salzard

• 1The Sea of Clouds06:21
• 2Fenway Park06:56
• 3Sunday Morning04:42
• 4Blue Shadow05:52
• 5Free (Like a Bird)03:30
• 6Les esprits du fleuve03:39
• 7One Seed, Many Fruits07:52
• 8Minneapolis05:42
• 9Mon parrain (Part I)01:23
• 10Mon parrain (Part II)03:43
• Total Runtime49:40

Info zu Time Keeper

After years spent working and “keeping the tempo” for performers from all over the world - whilst navigating through varied musical styles with the artists he met along the way - it was time for Laurent to launch his own project and unveil his personal world, his musical identity.

An album is some sort of guardian of time, a musical picture of a specific moment in the life of an artist. The recorded tracks are snapshots reflecting an inspiration, an emotion. They can therefore, in a way, hold back time.

Laurent recorded his first album late this year. 10 compositions, 10 pictures starting a new film, like a new adventure, in order to show the creative aspect to his work, give life to his own compositions and launch himself into a voyage to search for his musical identity.

The music from this album will transport you through quiet, poetic and purely acoustic rivers, through seas troubled by electric storms, through warmer waters, to enter the port of a big, urban and resolutely modern city.

Jazz, groove, touches of rock, electro and afro; all linked by lyricism and sensitivity. A certain delicacy, standing alongside wilder moments.

Laurent Salzard, bass
Anthony Jambon, guitar
Martin Wangermée, drums
Fred Dupont, piano, keyboards
Christophe Panzani, saxophone

Recorded at Besco Studio by Jean-Paul Gonnod, assisted by Loïc Colin
Mastered by Alan Silverman and Eleni Maltas at Arf! Mastering, New York

Laurent Salzard
is touring Europe since 3 years with the great brazilian singer Ed Motta (New Morning All-Stars festival, Jazz in Marciac, Nice Jazz Festival, ELB Jazz Festival, Pori Jazz Festival, Bremen Jazzahead, Vienna Jazzfest...). He has performed or recorded with legendary nigerian drummer Tony Allen (on Flavia Coelho's album "Mundo Meu"), Emmanuel Bex (in "Fleurs Invincibles" a project led by Tristan Macé and Clotilde Rullaud), Women Groove Project (senegalese project initiated by Hervé Samb), Noumoucounda Cissoko, Nourou, Kankele, Claude Diallo, Benjamin Henocq, Laurent Robin, Lulu Gainsbourg, Pep’s, Soe Joe, Licia Chery, Maureen Angot, Caroline Bugala, Diego Lipnisky, Yann Clery... -

Laurent was raised in La Rochelle, on the french atlantic cost, rocked by the sound of waves and classical music played by his father, a gifted amateur pianist and a true music lover. He tries for a time, and without big passion, to play the saxophone, but it is quite later that he is "contaminated" by the virus of music, first when he attends a concert by cameroon saxophonist Manu Dibango, being then seducted by the bass guitar, this discret but essential instrument. Then later again, as a wake-up call, when a friend makes him discover the Who, Cream, the Doors, and all the music from the 70's. He starts to study music and bass self-taught. Like many before him, it is a Miles Davis recording that leads him to Jazz. Then came the discovery of "black american music" from Marvin Gaye to Meshell Ndegeocello and through Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind and Fire or D'Angelo. Laurent décides to move to Paris to study at the jazz school "CIM". After one year of intense learning, he wants to put it into practice and starts playing with different people and small bands. A little later, he feels he needs to go back to school for some more studying, goes to Evry Conservatory where he graduates a state diploma with teachers Guillaume Roy and Thierry de Michaux. Encouraged by that teacher, he applies and ains a scholarship for Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he stays for one year, studying with teachers like Matt Garrison, Bruce Gertz, David "Fuze" Fiuczynski, Aruan Ortiz, Eguie Castrillo... Back in Paris, he continues to be a curious sideman, accompanying artits in all kind of styles, from Jazz to Soul, african music, Rock, Pop, latin music... Feeling fortunate to travel the world through music, discovering Europe, America, Asia... Being happy to invest himself into others' musical universe, he still continues to write music on his side to develop his own musical universe, searching for his own identity. In 2017 it is time for Laurent to give life to his compositions and to start his own band, which explores all his influences: Jazz, Groove, Afro, Electro, Rock, inspired by some artists who mix Jazz with all kinds of other styles like Robert Glasper, Tigran Hamasyan, Lionel Loueke, Thundercat, Badbadnotgood, Donny McCaslin, Jamire Williams... He records that same year his first album "Time Keeper" with a cast of young and great french musicians: Anthony Jambon (guitar), Martin Wangermée (drums), Fred Dupont (piano & keyboards) and Christophe Panzani (saxophone). "Time Keeper" will be released in January 2018 for Dreamophone label.

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