{"product_id":"multi-interpretes_sissoko-ballake-segal-chamber-music_2022_pia","title":"Sissoko \/ Ballake \/ Segal... \/ Chamber Music","description":"For any musician, playing in a duo is a truly unique experience. Because it pursues the ideal of a tête-à-tête where the protagonists would fuse their voices in the crucible of a shared thought, it places sharing more than ever at the very origin of the instrumental gesture. It demands not only a very high quality of expression, but also an exceptional quality of listening. In a duo, everything is played out primarily with the ears – the musician's first true instrument.\n\nThe kora player Ballaké Sissoko and cellist Vincent Segal elevate this art of conversation, based on understanding and attentiveness to the other, to its highest degree of precision in \"Chamber Music.\" This album could have been merely the record of a brief encounter characterized by the blending of cultures. Fortunately, it is much more than that.\n\nSissoko and Segal have cultivated this dedication to the human essence of all music for a good twenty years – the former having notably crossed strings with Taj Mahal and pianist Ludovico Einaudi, the latter having taken on roles as accompanist, arranger, or producer with a myriad of personalities as diverse as Cesaria Evora, -M-, Blackalicious, Piers Faccini, Sting, and Marianne Faithfull. Their respective journeys demonstrate the importance they attach to these transmissions of thoughts and sensations.\n\nThe joy of music here is condensed into the space and time that the two friends created for themselves: a bare room in Salif Keita's Moffou studio, three recording sessions without overdubs, woven into the protective cocoon of the Malian night. Away from the hustle and bustle of humanity and in the peaceful heart of the world, Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal banished from their minds everything that can distance a musician from his art – all those vain considerations of genre or style that only interest label-stickers – to better concentrate on the essential: the harmonious interweaving of their languages and signatures, the intertwining of their inner songs, to which the subtle waves of improvisation and the secret vibration of silence have added an extra density.\n\nTheir complicity is such that the kora and cello, far from engaging in an overly formal exchange of retorts, seem to speak with one voice: Sissoko and Segal mingle their blood and their sounds here to conclude a pact aimed at the emergence of a justly unified expression, of an incomparable clarity. What one hears in Chamber Music is rare and precious: two sensibilities in unison, on the same wavelength, creating music that, literally, flows effortlessly.","brand":"Multi-interprètes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55304332902744,"sku":null,"price":20221007.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/3700398705415_7e0cc0d0-63c8-45c6-8432-bf94207596ee.jpg?v=1772568503","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/multi-interpretes_sissoko-ballake-segal-chamber-music_2022_pia","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}