Keyboards are Drums

»Improvising is like telepathy involving both the physical and psychological vibration of music. You can heal people, help them feel better. «

Beat / Jean-Phi, the way your career developed is quite intriguing.

Jean-Phi Dary / That‘s true! I was really lucky to get in touch with people like Congolese singer Papa Wemba early on. Through him, I got to work with Peter Gabriel. Less than 6 monthes before that, I was just a pianist in a piano bar! Being in the Real World Studio, travelling, playing in this new “world“, I could taste what I really wanted to be part of. I felt that it was possible to be considered as an artist with my own ideas, my personal points of view. That was much better than playing in piano bars.

Beat / The Paradox came about during the recording of the modern classic Tomorrow Comes the Harvest with Tony Allen. How do you look back