TONY PAELEMAN

Tony Paeleman approaches this new opus with the desire to create an artistic piece that resonates far beyond music alone. To this end, he summons his trio born with The Fuse in 2021, album warmly wecomed at the time.

His new album conveys contrasting and sometimes opposing emotions, singing of the beauty of nature and the animal world, which moves and profoundly touches the heart. At the same time, it expresses a fear of the destruction of this beauty, the looming extinction of these species—a kind of pre-emptive nostalgia for a world collapsing under humanity’s unbridled, unconscious activity.

For Tony, the animal world could teach us a form of wisdom that Human kind seems to have lost. Wise Animals  is a bestiary, each track being an ode to an animal species. His very personnal Noah’s Ark…

On stage, Wise Animals takes on the dimension of a real show, whose stakes, beyond the remarkable instrumental performance and breathtaking interaction of a trio in full maturity, are a deep and lively reflection on the world in motion.

Tony Paeleman

Nominated for a Victoires du Jazz award in the Revelation category in 2021, Tony Paeleman is a singular musician, who combines the activities of producer and sound engineer, sideman and leader with an exceptional sagacity. He has crossed paths with Vincent Peirani, Anne Paceo, Youn Sun Nah, Émile Parisien, Marion Rampal… Founder of the Shed Music collective, he produces, mixes and hosts many renowned artists in his own studio, Studio des Bruères. He has released two acoustic opuses under his own name : Slow Motion (2013) and Camera Obscura (2017), followed by The Fuse (2021), which plunges the synthesizer and electronic effects into the heart of the band he forms with bassist Julien Herné and drummer Stéphane Huchard.