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Wise Animals » released on 06/12/24, Tony’s Noah’s Ark was, awarded the CHOC Jazz Magazine
Tony Paeleman, french pianist, 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 very warmly welcomed at the time.
His new album, Wise Animals, 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.
Tony Paeleman - piano, keyboards
Jérôme Arrighi - bass
Stéphane Huchard - drums
About “Wise Animals” (2024)
TTTT – Télérama
« Wise Animals gently invites us to empathise with a world that, let’s not forget, is or should be (provided we stop reducing it to its edible and enslavable dimension) our own. »
Choc – Jazz Magazine
« An album that speaks as much of the power as of the fragility and intimacy of nature: eloquent and concise in a rare way »
Jazz News
« Alternating sweet piano arpeggios and psychedelic synths, minimalist grooves and electro digressions, gentleness and tension. Tony Paeleman illustrates the beauty of the animal world and his fear of seeing it disappear. At times hunter on tribal rhythms, at other times hunted on hypnotic slow tempos or on aquatic hip-hop with guest rapper J.Medeiros. Wise and wild animals. »
4-33 Mag
“Tony Paeleman’s taste for contrast and his sense of development create a living tableau. A beautiful album for philosophizing…”
JazzXplotation
« Bestiaire Sonore, between instinctive grooves and organic emotions. »
Le Soir
« Tony Paeleman goes beyond music here. You can listen to it for its own sake: it’s beautiful and daring. But above all, it leads us to reflect on the world as it is. »
Libération
« Tony Paeleman touches the deepest points without becoming sentimental. »
Jazz Radio
« A true concept album, Wise Animals becomes a truly immersive spectacle when produced live, in a performance that is as intelligent as it is moving. »
France Musique
« Tony Paeleman, the animal in us »
About « The Fuse » (2021)
Jazz Magazine
« An addictive album from start to finish »
Télérama
« Feverish & weightless »
About « Camera Obscura » (2017)
France Musique
« As an architect of sound, he creates an atmosphere of intimacy, both in his organic relationship with the piano and behind each composition, where a memory, a dream, an intention or a conviction takes its place. »
Citizen Jazz
« A visual music that makes you look. »
About « Slow Motion » (2013)
France Musique
“His open-mindedness, eclectic taste and curiosity are all traits that have shaped his playing style, a rare blend of gentleness and ferocity.”
Millau Jazz Festival, Charlie Jazz Festival, Boplicity Jazz Festival, Lalonde Jazz Festival, La Rochelle Jazz Festival, Festival Boulevard du Jazz, Festival Jazz'Potes, Ca Jazze fort à Francheville, La Boule Noire, Le Silex, Sunset-Sunside, Jazz Station Bruxelles, Valence Jazz Action, Le Colisée de Lens, La Gare Jazz
