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Vincent Peirani is a jazz musician who is equally at home in world music, or classical music, chanson or pop. Yet what the listener will hear from his new album is that he has transformed the accordion into the baddest of rock n roll axes. On Night Walker the Frenchman shines. His quintet with extensive experience of playing together produces fiery Led Zeppelin covers and has a sound that not only crosses genres but is also completely unique.
The accordionist and composer is celebrated throughout Europe, something that was already the case before he made his debut as leader with the 2013 album Thrill Box Peirani was winning prizes in France as a teenager. Later he earned the title Artist Of The Year from Jazz Magazine and has received a German ECHO Jazz award four times, most recently in 2016 for his highly acclaimed duo album Tandem with pianist Michael Wollny. At the beginning of 2015 the once-in-a-century talent (Fono Forum) released his first work with a new quintet, Living Being, the same title being used for both the band and their album. The members are Emile Parisien, saxophone; Tony Paeleman, keyboards; Julien Herné, electric bass and guitar; Yoann Serra, drums. We were friends long before we started playing together, says Peirani, This band feels like family.
Recorded in just four days in March 2017 in Brussels, Night Walker shows the quintet channelling its energies even more powerfully and consistently. The mix by sound engineer Boris Darley took several months of experimentation to get it right. As Peirani says, it was like being in a musical laboratory. Whether seen from a jazz or a pop perspective, the combination of instruments is unique.
Peirani explains that the choice of songs to cover reflects his own preferences: Many years ago I had a solo project mixing the songs of Deep Purple and Rage Against The Machine. Those songs of the seventies have always fascinated me, and everyone in the band loves Led Zeppelin. Their songs contain so much nourishing material for us we all really enjoy sinking our teeth into it!
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