Arnaud Dolmen / Leonardo Montana

Discover "LéNo", Arnaud Dolmen's new album, live! Revelation at the Victoires du Jazz awards, finalist for the Jazz Academy's Django Reinhardt prize, Top 3 drummer in France, the phenomenal drummer & composer from Guadeloupe returns in a new formation: a duo with the brilliant Brazilian pianist Leonardo Montana. Plunge into a dreamlike elsewhere with these two daring and virtuoso explorers of multiple LeNo inspirations.

"A fascinating, no-holds-barred record. A "whole" record: turn it up to full volume, listen to the thundering sounds, the heady strings, the drums and cymbals that gush, clatter, heckle and crackle. You'd think with just the two of them, something would be missing. But nothing is missing. Drawn in by the rhythms and dance, entranced by the ostinatos of the piano, the cascades and leaps into the void, the spirit surrenders. [...] A world where two musicians sound like five or ten, and where history, convictions, the imaginary and dreams spring up in every interstice. [...] Getting the best out of his Jazzette, the smallest kind of drum kit, Dolmen transcends his heritage, expands his range of expression tenfold, and displays a wild inventiveness that gives Leonardo's lines new depths. Arnaud Dolmen and Leonardo Montana draw their strength from their Creole roots, a continent of islands that stretches as far as the shores of Louisiana and Brazil, and follow in the footsteps of their predecessors to create an enchanting, modern and timeless album. One voice, one path.