Brand: ACT

Features:

• Abrazo

Format: cd

PartNumber: ACT 96312

Release Date: 28-08-2020

Details: Abrazo. Embrace. A close dance perhaps, but also with the hint of a friendly tussle. Could there be a more fitting metaphor for the duo of accordionist Vincent Peirani and soprano saxophonist mile Parisien? It’s like a marriage, says Peirani. There can be very few musicians who have got to know each other as well as Peirani and Parisien have. Belle poque, their 2014 debut album as a duo, was a tribute to soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet, one of the biggest stars of early jazz in the 1920s and a wonderfully melodic player. Peirani and Parisien have left it nearly six years to produce the follow-up. Abrazo is also a salute, this time not to a person but to an art form: to the tango with all its elegance, sadness and rhythmic and melodic power. And as in their debut as a