The Art Of Conversation

Description

Just like Adam Cohen, Nancy Sinatra, Jakob Dylan, or Norah Jones, Leo Sidran is not just the son of Ben Sidran. He is also an extraordinary artist in his own right. A talented songwriter, composer, and performer, as well as a multi-instrumentalist, director, and producer. In 2015, Bonsaï Music released his album "Mucho Leo," which marked the beginning of his personal career in Europe. This album brings to mind artists such as Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman, Manu Chao, but especially Michael Franks due to the similarity of their voices and compositions like "Speak to me in Spanish." This single received significant airplay from FIP, Jazz Radio, but especially TSF, with one of the highest rotations in the summer of 2015 before programming Leo for their event at the Olympia: “You, The Night & The Music” in December 2015. Building on this artistic connection, Bonsaï Music and the Artist produced and released the album Cool School [The Music of Michael Franks] together in 2018, in which the latter appears in a wonderful duet. This album was unanimously praised by critics. The Art Of Conversation is his sixth studio album and follows Cool School, his beautiful tribute to Michael Franks. “The Art of Conversation” is one of those lovely musical creations that emerged from the lockdown. This album, born from this extraordinary period, is a marriage of hope and doubt, solitude and the multiple artistic collaborations it generated, exchanges beyond borders that new technologies made possible, serving to maintain private creation momentarily cut off from any direct expression to its audience. Leo Sidran states about it: “On one hand, The Art Of Conversation offers an intimate look at my life over the past year. All these songs were recorded in 2020 during Covid, mainly at my home in Brooklyn. They are just as personal and intimate, introspective portraits. On the other hand, this album also reflects all the possibilities of remote collaborations and contributions with friends from around the world that this period has provoked.” “The Art of Conversation” features 12 beautiful songs, all by Leo Sidran (except for “Row on” and “Song for a Sucker Like You”), which further demonstrates Leo's incredible talent in offering us magnificent lyrics and melodies.