Bill Laurance & Michael League - Where You Wish You Were (LP)

Snarky Puppy founder and multi-instrumentalist Michael League in duo with pianist Bill Laurance take us to an imaginary place full of beauty and peace A mere mention of the names of Michael League and Bill Laurance makes one think of Snarky Puppy. It is now nearly twenty years since Southern California-born bassist/multi-instrumentalist Michael League founded the globally acclaimed, four-time GRAMMY award-winning collective. As for keyboardist Bill Laurance, originally from London, he has been a part of the globe-trotting adventure for nearly as long as League has. So the fact that League and Laurance are now releasing 'Where you Wish you Were', their first duo album together, does feel at the same time like a logical development...and also a surprise. Michael League takes a very different role here from the one he does in Snarky Puppy. On 'Where you Wish you Were', he is to be heard mainly playing the oud and other acoustic stringed instruments. 'Where you Wish you Were' has nothing o