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Keeping Company
Bill Laurance and Michael League, longtime friends and collaborators have released their second duo album; emphasizing deeper exploration and personality while prioritizing live recordings to capture organic spontaneity.
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Rhodes Mk8 Sessions
Grammy-winning pianist, keyboardist, and composer Bill Laurance, who got his start with the jazz fusion band Snarky Puppy and has since built a flourishing solo career, presents the latest 'Rhodes Sessions' recordings.
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Bloom
Once again seeking to expand his sonic pallet, 'Bloom' sees 5-time Grammy winning composer and pianist Bill Laurance return to his classical roots, utilising 18 string players from Manchester’s Untold Orchestra.
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HOPE EP
A track originally commissioned by the Internationally acclaimed dancer / choreographer and Artistic director Hope Boykin for the Hope Boykin Dance Company. Premiered at the Philadelphia Ballet's work Endure in February 2023.
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Affinity
Classically-trained composer, sought after collaborator and Grammy award-winning pianist Bill Laurance is set to release his 8th solo record, Affinity, on October 28th 2022 via Flint Music. The album is his first to consist purely of original solo piano material, and select covers.
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Bill Laurance & The Untold Orchestra Live at EFG London Jazz Festival 2021
Recorded at EFG London Jazz Festival in November 2021, genre-defying composer Bill Laurance returns with a sonically expansive album alongside the Untold Orchestra, performing music from across his career, reimagined and recontextualised for an ensemble as vast as this.
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Zeal EP
Recorded during the throws of lockdown, this unique project overcame the challenges of recording an orchestra remotely, and inspired by the pursuit of opportunity out of adversity.
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Cables Rewired EP
Bill Laurance's new collaboration with the Manchester-based Untold Orchestra provides a natural extension of this vision, as they inhabit every facet of two stirring pieces from his acclaimed electronica-tinged album, Cables.
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Snarky Puppy wins 4th Grammy award
Snarky Puppy’s Live at the Royal Albert Hall album has won the 2021 Grammy award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album. This makes Snarky Puppy’s 4th Grammy award.
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Aftersun EP
Bill Laurance’s third studio album Aftersun celebrates 5 years since its release on 4th March 2006 on GroundUP Music. To commemorate, the bonus track Held, previously only available on the physical CD in Japan, was re-released in the Aftersun EP along with three tracks from the original record on Friday 5th March 2021.
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Live at Ronnie Scott's
Bill Laurance Trio have announced the release of Live at Ronnie Scott's, an album recorded live at the world-renowned jazz club during their International Piano Trio festival, on Friday 3rd August, 2018.
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Un Traductor
Un Traductor, Rodrigo and Sebastián Barriuso's feature-length drama about a Russian Literature professor ordered to work as a translator for child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, has been named as Cuba’s official entry to the 92nd Academy Awards in 2020. Its score is Bill Laurance’s first for a feature film.
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Cables
Bill Laurance’s fifth album, Cables, celebrates six months since its release on 29th September 2019. To mark the occasion, Bill provides insight into its composition and production, alongside sharing a new sixty-second trailer which outlines the themes and ideas that informed the record.
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