A piano, an acoustic guitar, two virtuosos and ten instrumentals. The Art of Deep Connection is an album to make you doubletake, and marvel, and feel. It is the stand-out debut from an exemplary acoustic duo: acclaimed pianist, producer and composer, Alex Wilson, and the London-based Nicaraguan master guitarist and composer, Omar Rios Melendez.

Recorded at Steve Winwood's Wincraft Studios in the heart of the English Cotswolds, The Art of Deep Connection boasts a track list of exhilarating originals and inventively rearranged covers that pulse with elements of jazz, flamenco, and Latin American music. Here are duets that flow seamlessly, almost telepathically, and improvised solos - and two solo tracks - that beguile and dazzle, as befitting two maestros with collaborative smarts and a lifetime's worth of immersion in their craft.

"We are two men who are sitting down and connecting deeply in the studio and onstage, and having a dialogue with the listener, the audience, in the process," he continues. "These are crazy, overwhelming times. This album is our grano de arena, our little grain of sand, to help counter that. To try and say, 'Let's have some open and honest communication with each other in music and beyond." - Alex Wilson

Omar Rios Melendez: guitar
Alex Wilson: piano
Produced by Alex Wilson & Omar Rios Melendez