Affinity Bill Laurance

• 1Pillars04:22
• 2Storm03:59
• 3Everything Exists04:32
• 4Affinity03:34
• 5In Good Faith05:20
• 6Sirens02:56
• 7House of the Rising Sun05:38
• 8Peace Piece07:47
• 9A Child is Born04:51
• 10Home04:10
• Total Runtime47:09

Info for Affinity

Beautiful! Melodic! Chill out... Relaxation! Stylistically diverging from his previous solo material, Affinity centres around the constant in Bill’s diverse musical career; the piano. With previous records touching on electronic music, a solo piano record was something Bill had considered for a long time, “I've wanted to do a solo piano album for as long as I can remember. To perform solo, represents musical freedom in its purest form and there is no other setting where I feel more at home. My last studio album Cables was originally intended to be a solo piano album, but quickly morphed into something quite different involving an endless array of synthesisers and guitar pedals. This time I was determined to celebrate the instrument in all its glory, by itself.”

“Affinity reveals Laurance’s poetic melodicism at its finest” (Mike Flynn, Editor, Jazzwise)

Bill Laurance, piano, keyboards

Bill Laurance
Grammy award winner and original member of the internationally acclaimed Snarky Puppy, Bill Laurance released his debut album FLINT in 2014 going straight to No1 in the UK and US iTunes Jazz Charts and receiving international critical acclaim.

His second album SWIFT is released on GroundUP Music in Spring 2015.

Classically trained, Bill has worked as a professional musician since he was 14, touring internationally as a pianist, keyboard player, composer, producer and arranger. Bill has recorded and or performed with artists including: David Crosby, Morcheeba, Salif Keita, Bobby McFerrin, Terence Blanchard, Susana Baca, Lalah Hathaway, Laura Mvula, Jacob Collier, Musiq Soul Child, Chris Potter, Lionel Loueke, Carlos Malta, Miss Dynamite and The Metropole Orchestra.

He has worked extensively in the dance world with companies including Alvin Ailey, Ballet Rambert, Matthew Bourne's Adventures in Motion Pictures, Phoenix Dance, Northern Ballet Theatre and the English National Ballet.

Bill runs his own music production company Twenty Thousand specialising in music for film, TV and commercials. Recent clients include Apple Mac, Sky Broadband, Nokia, De Beers, Hewlett Packard and Rigby & Peller.

Bill is a specialist lecturer at the Institute of Contemporary Music in London and continues to give clinics at music institutions around the world.

This album contains no booklet.