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Like all popular music, jazz is associated with strong personalities. International recognition of accordionist Vincent Peirani rests on that essential, fundamental quality. His musical charisma, his very distinctive creative skills, his unique approach to his art – all of which are the fruit of a very open, unblinkered attitude – strike the listener immediately.
After brilliant studies in classical music (many international awards), his dive into the world of jazz received the seal of success from the start and was crowned at the Victoires du Jazz in 2014 (“Revelation”) and 2015 (“Artist of the Year”). Vincent Peirani has the ability to turn everything he touches into gold: in jazz, of course (his own projects, but also collaborations with Daniel Humair, Michel Portal, and others), but also in chanson (Sanseverino, Les Yeux Noirs), film music (composer for Mathieu Almaric’s Barbara in 2017), and so on. Whatever the style, the public follows: in his performances, he creates a balance between the relatively straightforward (inventive revivals of well-known themes) and a blessed unexpectedness, with art music and popular music very close to each other, a sign of great artistry.
The man who, ten years ago, completely renewed the language of the accordion (and continues to do so) has become a major artist, whose uninhibited, cosmopolitan view of music and sense of instrumental combination and colour, enable him to bring that rare and precious magical touch to everything he does.
Jokers… Once again, accordionist Vincent Peirani reshuffles the cards. As a good jazz musician, he likes to venture into unexplored territories. As a good music fan and a very good musician in general, he is curious, enthusiastic, and eager to make new discoveries and find new things to listen to or play. Jokers, his first album in trio, goes even further, and elsewhere.The Jokers project is not entirely new. It was born a few years ago when the German radio station NDR invited Vincent Peirani to produce two concerts, giving him carte blanche for the format. Vincent chose to turn for the first time to the jazz trio, a formula with such a long history that it is almost sacred, and certainly intimidating. But typically, he used that framework only to escape from it. His two accomplices, Federico Casagrande on guitar and Ziv Ravitz on drums and keyboards, both have a wealth of experience and skills, an interest in rock and electronic music, and a taste for musical hybridity.
line up
Vincent Peirani / accordion, accordina, clarinet, keyboards, music box, glockenspiel & voice
Federico Casagrande / guitar
Ziv Ravitz / drums
VINCENT PEIRANI – EMILE PARISIEN DUO “ABRAZO”
Abrazo. Embrace. Sometimes that of one’s dance partner, sometimes a fraternal hug. Can there be a better image for the duo composed of accordionist Vincent Peirani and soprano saxophonist Emile Parisien?
“It’s like a marriage,” says Peirani, “with ups and downs, but what could be more normal? But right now, we really want to play together.”
There are probably few musicians who know each other as well as Peirani and Parisien. They have given over a thousand concerts together in the past ten years, more than six hundred of them as a duo.
“Abrazo” is not inspired by the work of a composer but by an art form, a culture: tango, its elegance, its melancholy and the power of its rhythms and melodies. As on their first duo recording, Peirani and Parisien do not play the material of the originals, but they play around with it. Pieces written by masters of South American influence such as Astor Piazzolla, Tomás Gubitsch or Xavier Cugat are only part of the repertoire. The compositions of Parisien and Peirani develop in the tango spirit, like the arrangement of “Army Dreamers” by Kate Bush, whom Peirani deeply admires. The opening track, “The Crave” by American pianist and bandleader Jelly Roll Morton – one of the most influential jazz musicians of the early twentieth century – creates an amazing bridge between the previous album and this one. It seems that “Abrazo”, after “Belle Époque”, is the second part of a series, and indeed if we listen to the two albums one after the other, we notice that they blend quite surprisingly.
What binds all these different elements together is the deep affinity that is so obvious between Peirani and Parisien. It stems from the incredible finesse of their interactions and the exceptionally innovative approach they both have to their instruments.
There is something here that is completely magical.
It appears that the ingredients for this hypnotic potion could come from anywhere: traditional or modern jazz, free avant-garde, classical, folk, rock, electronic, music new or old – the thirst for novelty, the desire for adventure seem insatiable.
It is that boundless curiosity, that desire to grow together and climb to ever new heights that bind together the duo Peirani & Parisien and make it so unique.
VINCENT PEIRANI – FRANÇOIS SALQUE DUO “BACH PROJECT”
After exploring music from Central Europe with their first album Est and revisiting the works of Piazzolla and Gardel with Tanguillo, François Salque and Vincent Peirani dedicate their new album to the musical universe of Jean-Sébastien Bach. The reinterpretation offered by this fantastic pair is nourished by the mesmerizing and incredibly varied sounds of their two instruments, at the confluence of classical music and jazz, in perpetual reinvention.
Bach’s works are the source of a transformative inspiration, the gift of an amazing sense of crossings, tasteful, cascading improvisations and evocative (re)creations. Alongside the traditional choruses, sarabandes and other preludes, works specially composed by and for the duet testify that, reinvested by such inspired musicians, Bach’s music still has a lot to tell!
- 2009 – Gunung Sebatu with Vincent Lê Quang (saxophone), Zig Zag Territoires
- 2008 – Mélosolex, Label Ouïe / Anticraft distribution
- 2011 – Est with François Salque (cello), Zig Zag Territoires
- 2011 – Vagabond, with Lars Danielsson / Ulf Wakenius, ACT
- 2012 – Thrill Box with Michael Wollny (p) and Michel Benita (b), ACT
- 2013 – Tanguillo with François Salque and Tomás Gubitsch, Zig Zag Territoires
- 2014 – Belle Époque with Émile Parisien, ACT
- 2015 – Living Being, with Émile Parisien (cl, ts), Yoann Serra (d), Tony Paeleman (Fender Rhodes), Julien Herné (elb), ACT
- 2016 – Tandem, with Peirani and Wollny, ACT
- 2022 – Jokers, with Federico Casagrande and Ziv Ravitz / drums, ACT
