#SessionLive with the duo Vincent Peirani and Émile Parisien

Vincent Peirani and Émile Parisien at RFI.

RFI / Laurence Aloir

By: Laurence Aloir

5 mins

Accordionist Vincent Peirani and saxophonist Émile Parisien release their 2nd album Abrazo.

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Abrazo is a hug.

Sometimes an embrace of his dance partner, sometimes a fraternal hug.

Is there a better image for the duo of accordionist 

and soprano saxophonist 

 ?

“

,” Peirani says.

"

."

There are probably few musicians who know each other as well as Peirani and Parisien.

The two men have given more than 1,000 concerts together over the past ten years, including more than 600 as a duo.

They met in 2010 in the quartet of drummer 

.

It was during a concert in Korea with the latter that they also had the opportunity to play a duet for the first time.

First time uninviting, according to the two protagonists, "a disaster!"

Shortly after, in a French festival, they renew the experience, and then form what is probably one of the most extraordinary formations of European jazz.

In 2014, their first album "Belle Époque" was released on the 

.

From that moment on, everything goes very quickly.

In just a few months, they found themselves playing at the biggest venues and festivals in France and Germany, then around the world - in Asia, Latin America, the United States, Canada and all over Europe. .

As well as in world-famous classical venues such as the Berlin, Hamburg, Essen and Vienna Philharmonics.

International awards such as the Echo Jazz, the Jazz Victories, the German Record Critics 'Award and the numerous critics' awards from major jazz magazines were not long in coming.

"Belle Époque" is a tribute to the soprano saxophonist 

, one of the great jazz stars of the early twenties and master of melody.

Peirani and Parisien took nearly six years to imagine what happened next.

The album "Abrazo", by Vincent Peirani and Émile Parisien.

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"Abrazo" is inspired, not by the work of a composer, but by an art form, by a culture: the tango, its elegance, its melancholy and its rhythmic and melodic power.

As with their first duet, Peirani and Parisien do not play the material of the originals, but they do.

Pieces written by masters of South American influence such as 

, 

or 

are only part of the repertoire.

The compositions of Parisien and Peirani evolve in the spirit of tango, as does the arrangement of "

" by 

, which Peirani admires deeply.

The opening track "The Crave" by American pianist and conductor 

one of the most influential jazz musicians of the early 20th century, builds an amazing bridge with the previous album.

It seems that "Abrazo", after "Belle Époque", is the second part of a suite, and indeed the two albums, heard one after the other, intertwine in a surprising way.

Gift,

featuring the star dancer 

and the choreographer 

who comes from hip hop.

→ Concerts in Paris, October 27 and 28, 2020, at the Bouffes Parisiens.

Vincent Peirani and Émile Parisien.

Jean-Pascal Retel

Interpreted pieces

Peirani-Parisien

extract from the CD Abrazo of the Peirani-Parisien duo 

Peirani-Parisien

Peirani-Parisien.

Musicians

soprano saxophone

accordion.

His RFI: 

and 

Playlist of Vincent Peirani and Émile Parisien

(choice of Vincent)

(choice of Emile)

(choice of Vincent)

(choice of 'Émile).

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