Les Égarés

If ever there was a powerful argument for jazz being an attitude to music-making rather than a genre, it’s this rare gem. — The Guardian More…

Release Date: 7th Apr 2023
Catalogue No: NOF58LP
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Presto Recording of the Week

7th April 2023
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Recording of the Week, Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani - Les Égarés

7th April 2023

The quartet of kora player Ballaké Sissoko, cellist Vincent Sega, saxophonist Emile Parisien, and accordionist Vincent Peirani come together to produce one of the freshest-sounding releases of the year so far.

New quartet Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani presents "Les ?gar?s" (The wandering),an album recorded by two virtuoso duos (Sissoko-Segal and Peirani-Parisien),who for years have excelled in the art of cross-fertilising sounds and transcending genres. Les Egare\u0301s is more than a record. It's play space, a locus of musical life, a poetic asylum inhabited by two duos: Ballake\u0301 Sissoko (kora) and Vincent Segal (cello) on the one hand and Vincent Peirani (accordion) and E\u0301mile 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 Egare\u0301s 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. Arecord without a solo voice but a record that never stops singing. "You walk without knowing where you're going, letting yourself drift and giving into the pleasure of being lost" sums up Vincent Segal.

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If ever there was a powerful argument for jazz being an attitude to music-making rather than a genre, it’s this rare gem.

Delicate musical conversations hit the spot.

Les Égarés translates as the strays. If there is straying here it is happening in a musical landscape where every diversion is a delight.

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