{{Short description|French cellist and bassist}} thumb|Ségal performing in 2021. '''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,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elviscostello.info/disc/official/wiwc/smile.html|title=The Elvis Costello Home Page|publisher=Elviscostello.info|access-date=12 October 2014}}</ref> Cesaria Evora, 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/person/304103/Vincent-Segal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105085831/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/304103/Vincent-Segal|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 November 2012|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2012|title=Vincent Segal|access-date=12 October 2014}}</ref>
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<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jul/22/ballake-sissoko-vincent-segal-chamber-music |access-date=September 9, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131201054/http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jul/22/ballake-sissoko-vincent-segal-chamber-music |archive-date=January 31, 2011 |website=TheGuardian.com |title=Ballake Sissoko and Vincent Segal: Chamber Music | World music review | Music | the Guardian }}</ref>
== Discography == {{div col}} ===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''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bumcello.com/page.php?lang=ANG&idSR=discographie&idR=connaitre&idPage=discoBooty|title=.: Bumcello : releases :.|publisher=Bumcello.com|access-date=12 October 2014|archive-date=3 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203044018/http://www.bumcello.com/page.php?lang=ANG&idSR=discographie&idR=connaitre&idPage=discoBooty|url-status=dead}}</ref>
=== 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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/en/expositions/revelations-une-odyssee-numerique-dans-la-peinture|title=Le Petit Palais - Révélations - Une odyssée numérique dans la peinture - petitpalais.paris.fr|publisher=Petitpalais.paris.fr|access-date=12 October 2014}}</ref> * 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 {{div col end}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Vincent+Segal/ Vincent Ségal at discogs] * [http://www.last.fm/music/Vincent+Segal Vincent Ségal last.fm page] * [https://www.npr.org/artists/137110789/vincent-segal Vincent Ségal at NPR] * [http://www.label-bleu.com/artist.php?artist_id=114&lng=e Vincent Ségal's page at Label Bleu] * [http://www.bumcello.com/page.php?lang=ANG&idSR=actualites&idR=connaitre&idPage= Bumcello's website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321045407/http://bumcello.com/page.php?lang=ANG&idSR=actualites&idR=connaitre&idPage= |date=2016-03-21 }}
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