Les Égarés 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 crossfertilising 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.
Les Égarés 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 crossfertilising 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 itsel...
line upBallaké Sissoko / kora
Vincent Segal / cello
Emile Parisien / soprano saxophone
Vincent Peirani / accordion, accordina
Produced by Ballaké Sissoko, Vincent Segal, Emile Parisien and Vincent Peirani
Executive Producer: Laurent Bizot
Recorded by Boris Darley at Studio Alys / La Grange des Villarons, April 20 - 26, 2022,
assisted by Pascal Perrot and Jérémy Fach
Mixed by Boris Darley at Ohm Sweet Ohm Studio, Paris, July 12 - 14, 2022
Mastered by Raphaël Jonin at J R A P H i.n.g studio (Cordes sur Ciel), September 22, 2022
Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal appear courtesy of Nø Førmat!
