#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
Vincent Peirani
and soprano saxophonist
Émile Parisien
?
“
It's like a wedding
,” Peirani says.
"
With ups and downs, but nothing more normal
!! But at the moment, we really want to play together
."
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
Daniel Humair
.
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
ACT label
.
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
Sidney Bechet
, 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.
Actmusic
"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
Astor Piazzolla
,
Tom
á
s Gubitsch
or
Xavier Cugat
are only part of the repertoire.
The compositions of Parisien and Peirani evolve in the spirit of tango, as does the arrangement of "
Army Dreamers
" by
Kate Bush
, which Peirani admires deeply.
The opening track "The Crave" by American pianist and conductor
Jelly Roll Morton
,
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,
the clip Memento
featuring the star dancer
Alice Renavand
and the choreographer
Frédéric Faula
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
- Temptation
Live RFI
Peirani-Parisien
- Army Dreamers
extract from the CD Abrazo of the Peirani-Parisien duo
(Kate Bush)
- Fuga Y Misterio
Live RFI
Peirani-Parisien
- Memento
Live RFI
Peirani-Parisien.
Musicians
Émile Parisien,
soprano saxophone
Vincent Peirani,
accordion.
His RFI:
Fabien Mugneret
and
Benoît Letirant.
Playlist of Vincent Peirani and Émile Parisien
- Kelly Joe Phelps
River Rat Jimmy
(choice of Vincent)
- Alain Péters
Eat for the heart
(choice of Emile)
- Bachar Mar-Khalifé
Lemon
(choice of Vincent)
- Clifford Brown
Delilah
(choice of 'Émile).
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