Sissoko Segal Peirani Parisien

NEW ALBUM (MARCH 2023) : LES EGARÉS

Les Egarés is more than a record. It’s play space, a locus of musical life, a poetic asylum inhabited by two twosomes who for years have excelled in the art of cross- fertilising sounds and transcending genres. They are Ballaké Sissoko (kora) and Vincent Segal (cello) on the one hand and Vincent Peirani (accordion) and Émile Parisien (sax) on the other. 

In the case of these magicians, 2 + 2 no longer makes 4, it makes 1. Because what they concoct is most definitely a unity of spirit, a single and fluid sound that disdains all forms of egotistical competitiveness and puts each participant at the service of a common musical good. Neither jazz, nor trad, nor chamber, nor avant-garde, but a bit of all of them, all at once, Les Egarés is the kind of album that makes the ear the king of all instruments, an album where virtuosity expresses itself in the art of complicity, where the simple and grandiose idea of listening to one another results in the birth of a splendid song with four parts. 

Les Egarés reminds us of the rebelliousness that can be found in a spirit of concord and the extent to which the art of playing together with such fine intelligence can generate an extremely subtle way of lighting a fuse. Contrary to a received and tedious notion, living in harmony doesn’t necessarily mean fatally constraining oneself to irksome compromises, flabby consensus and other soporific routines. When they want to, peace and harmony can kick ass. And with these four, they want to do just that, they want to do it all the time. In Les Egarés, they even raise mountains, reordering the musical landscape to uncover lines of escape of a hitherto unheard beauty.