Vincent Ségal

Vincent Ségal (born 1967 in Reims, France) is a French cellist and bassist.

He studied at the National Music Academy of Lyon and the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. He is mainly known for the variety of his collaborations and unusual projects. He has worked with Steve Nieve, Elvis Costello, Cesária Évora, Blackalicious, Carlinhos Brown, the French reggae band Tryo, Franck Monnet, the experimental project Mujeres Encinta, Georges Moustaki or with Alexandre Desplat in the O.S.T. of Lust, Caution and other of his films.

In 1986 he and Cyril Atef and formed the band Bumcello, a downtempo electronica duo that won the Victoires de la Musique award and was named Electronic artist of the year 2006. He played on every Matthieu Chedid (-M-) album. In 2009 he worked with Sting on his album If on a Winter's Night.... In October of the same year he recorded, in the studio of Salif Keïta in Mali, the album Chamber Music with Ballaké Sissoko

Discography

As leader 2002: T-Bone Guarnerius 2007: Cello

With Bumcello 1999: Bumcello 2001: Booty Time 2002: Nude for Love 2003: Get Me (live) 2005: Animal sophistiqué 2008: Lychee Queen 2012: Al

Collaborations With Ballaké Sissoko 2009: Chamber Music 2015: Musique de Nuit 2023: Les Égarés

With -M- 1997: Le Baptême 1999: Je dis aime 2003: Qui de nous deux

With Mujeres Encinta 1999: Wild Hongi (The Beak Brackets Series) 2001: Carisma de Alquiler

With Dick Annegarn 1999: Adieu verdure 2000: Au cirque d'hiver (label Tôt ou tard)

With Blackalicious 2002: Blazing arrow 2005: The Craft

With Piers Faccini 2003: Leave No Trace 2014: Songs of Time Lost

With others 1996: Olympic Gramofon with Olympic Gramofon 1997: Cabo Verde by Cesaria Evora 1997: AlphaGamabetiZado by Carlinhos Brown 2000: Bliss by Vanessa Paradis 2002: Climax by Alain Bashung 2003: Black Orpheus (Neptune) by Keziah Jones 2003: Cruel Smile by Elvis Costello 2004: Zenzile & Jamika meet Cello by Zenzile 2004: Douze fois par an by Jeanne Cherhal 2006: Libido by Brigitte Fontaine 2006: Navega by Mayra Andrade 2007: 33 1/3 by Susheela Raman 2009: If on a Winter's Night... by Sting 2010: Comme la rencontre fortuite... with Jean-Jacques Birgé 2010: Révélations with Jean-Jacques Birgé 2011: Dans tous ses états with Jean-Jacques Birgé and Antonin-Tri Hoang 2013: Dans tous les sens du terme with Jean-Jacques Birgé and Antonin-Tri Hoang 2013: Dépaysages Côté Court with Jean-Jacques Birgé, Antonin-Tri Hoang and Jacques Perconte 2018: The Journey with Lionel Loueke 2020: Pique-nique au labo by Jean-Jacques Birgé 2021: She Walks in Beauty by Warren Ellis and Marianne Faithfull