Pierre De Bethmann Trio

The spring of 2022 offered the trio of Pierre de Bethmann an important concert activity, around a constantly evolving repertoire, of which it was tempting to offer a recorded version. And it is a new piano – guitar – double bass alloy, organized around a resolutely different sound, which entered the studio during the summer of 2022 in order to continue the series of Essays under another approach. Always fond of standards from multiple musical traditions, always deeply attached to the idea of ​​proposing an original idea as much as deeply worked over the concerts, the trio is thus transformed by the exceptional personality of guitarist Nelson Veras, offering all the finesse of his playing to the tandem previously formed by the pianist and the double bass player. Recorded as closely as possible to concert conditions, all three musicians in the same room, without headphones, and by the analog CLASP system, this new album, in the extension of the Essays series, is seen as much as a review of the journey, as as the beginning of a new stage of exploration on the infinite terrain of standards.