“The Party” concert given by the French "Paul Lay Trio" will take place in the Cultural Center on November 11. 

The band was created in 2014 by Paul Lay, a young pianist from Toulouse. He easily entered Paris Conservatory when still under the age of 18. Since then, he has been fascinating the audience with high-quality performance and his own musical “language”. The modern European jazz music has numerous styles that have already become classics. The young and talented band found its own path and plays for its own and listeners’ pleasure. In recent years Paul, Clemens Van Der Feen (contrabass) and Dré Pallemaerts (drums) have been playing jazz with the elements of traditional Indian music and trans style.

“I believe that the idea of having no right for something superfluous and needless is a brilliant characteristic of Indian music that, by the way, shares some features with jazz. Each note has its meaning and history. There’s an atmosphere of being involved in music with the absolute estrangement from everything else…”, said Paul in the interview to DJAM.  

Paul is sometimes called the greatest musician of modern days. The winner of Django Reinhardt Prize as the “Best French Jazz Musician 2016” according to Jazz Academy, “French Discovery 2016” according to POLL DE JAZZ MAGAZINE, award holder of prestigious global music contests, participant of international jazz festivals, Paul has already issued four albums. Three of them are «Mikado», «Thanks a million», «Alcazar memories». Compositions from the fourth album, «The Party», will be performed in Satka. 

“I wrote this album as a musical illustration to party sceneries. There’s happiness, easiness, unexpectedness, excitement and joy from being with your friends. Each detail characterizes a person, situation or visual contact, dance and many other movements. A party is a play of masks: each ego behaves differently depending on the situation, trying to be part of a certain group. It’s an investigation of our own multifaceted identity that is the basis of our individuality, image, questions, imperfections and dreams”.  

Photo by Elena Nikitina.