{"id":5032,"date":"2026-03-03T14:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/?p=5032"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:06:17","slug":"vincent-peirani-living-being-iv-time-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/en\/music\/vincent-peirani-living-being-iv-time-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"VINCENT PEIRANI \u2013 LIVING BEING IV (TIME REFLECTIONS)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Artist: Vincent Peirani<\/strong>
Album: Living Being IV (Time Reflections)<\/strong>
Label: ACT<\/strong>
Link: https:\/\/vincent-peirani.com\/<\/a>
Style: Contemporary Jazz<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Encouraged by his musician father, Vincent Peirani took up the accordion and enrolled at the Nice Conservatory, where he studied classical clarinet. He won numerous prizes and classical music competitions with both his clarinet and his accordion. At the age of 20, he immersed himself in jazz and received instruction from Daniel Humair and Ricardo Del Fra, among others. His career in this style has been no less brilliant than in the previous ones, and alongside numerous publications under his own name, he has collaborated extensively in jazz, French chanson and world music, with Youn Sun Nah, Stromae and Richard Bona, to name but the most high-profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signed to the ACT label since 2013, Vincent Peirani uses his accordion not to define his music, but as a means of travelling between styles. The fact that he performs as part of a quintet on this album allows him to multiply the facets of the tracks, reflecting the artist’s influences. In the track \u2018LL\u2019 (a tribute to Lionel Loueke), we move from free jazz to progressive rock. This is followed by \u2018Physical Attraction\u2019, whose groove looks towards Jamaica, then \u2018Better Days\u2019, where classical and folk meet, and finally the very pop \u2018Bremain Suite\u2019, which borrows the themes of its musical digressions from Queen, Portishead and the Beatles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once again, ACT treats us to an album that is perfectly produced in terms of both sound recording and mastering. The great clarity is accompanied by a softness that avoids any coldness or over-definition and pays perfect homage to the acoustic instruments. Unlike many accordionists’ albums, the accordion, although very present, does not overwhelm the other musicians. What we hear is a quintet, with each member playing a part in the compositions and the sound colour of the album. Here, the drums are mellow yet percussive, and the saxophone avoids any excessive brilliance, always maintaining a warm sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inspired by many styles, accordionist Vincent Peirani brings them together with his quintet in Living Being IV (Time Reflections), a jazz album that is both accessible and invigorating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":5033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[199,216],"class_list":["post-5032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-contemporary-jazz","tag-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5034,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions\/5034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}