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So many possibilities existed for coming back to a trio. One of them was simply not to pursue things and just let them 
happen and follow the direction the wind was blowing over the last years that had been so rich in shared projects.
Playing with no definite goal, loving to do the job and enjoying the taste of others, time and again…
Could I ever have imagined that a new sense of something so evident could come out of another one of those Parisian nights 
in the rue des Lombards? A last minute gig and a desire to meet up again with two people I had admired for such a long time, 
three sets of a disconcerting limpidity and an idea, born at the end of the night: “couldn’t we keep on doing it?” — That’s what I call strategy!
To keep on doing it, that was the idea. To let ourselves be carried along by a complete absence of plans: no concept other 
than to keep each one’s most intimate connection with his instrument and try to make it sound together. We talked a little 
and played a lot, commencing with the grand repertoire about which we all naturally agreed to agree that we could not forego. 

Still, slowly, ideas were taking shape and a selection of tunes started to stand out: we decided to make them our own, twisting them 
around as we felt like doing it, as what is called jazz probably allows it. And we finally agreed on a studio recording. We played 
and played again, trying to stay as close as we could to live conditions, coming out of the session without even having listened 
to all the takes or decided on what we would keep. 
But beyond all those things that turned out to be so precious, what mattered even more was to share an adventure 
with two remarkable individuals whose philosophy of life and way of playing infuse their chosen paths, paths that are 
as exceptional as their talent. They are both lovers of things well-done, motivated only by the desire to explore relentlessly 
what they love… so as to love it a little more. They are both sources of inspiration whose depth and natural goodwill seem to 
suggest at each moment that the question of modernity is decidedly no longer to be posed in the terms of the aforesaid modernity.

(May 2015, Audrey Fogels)


Sylvain Romano - Double Bass
Tony Rabeson - Drums
Pierre de Bethmann - Piano

foobar2000 1.3.16 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2018-01-14 19:54:36

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Analyzed: Pierre de Bethmann / Essais, Vol. 1
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR12      -0.10 dB   -14.46 dB      6:12 01-Promise of the Sun
DR12      -0.10 dB   -15.16 dB      6:24 02-Sicilienne
DR10      -0.10 dB   -12.58 dB      5:00 03-Indifference
DR11      -0.10 dB   -14.82 dB      5:45 04-Beautiful Love
DR14      -0.10 dB   -17.02 dB      5:27 05-For Heaven's Sake
DR9       -0.10 dB   -13.16 dB      5:47 06-La Mer
DR13      -0.10 dB   -17.08 dB      7:06 07-Chant des Marais
DR8       -0.10 dB   -10.94 dB      5:24 08-Without a Song
DR12      -0.10 dB   -15.17 dB      5:35 09-Pull Marine
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Number of tracks:  9
Official DR value: DR11

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