Sissoko, Segal, Peirani and Parisien: Les Egares

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 cross-fertilising 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. What they concoct is a unity of spirit, a single and fluid sound. Neither jazz, nor trad, nor chamber, nor avant-garde, but a bit of all of them, all at once, Les Égarés 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.

Bristol Beacon

14+ Under 18s accompanied by an adult