#Piers Faccini is in the #Session Live

Piers Faccini.

© Julien Mignot

By: Laurence Aloir

4 min

Somewhere between an English moor, an oasis in the Saharan desert and a road in the Mississippi.

Publicity

On the occasion of the release of

Shapes of the Fall

,

Piers Faccini will

perform 2 pieces at the Grand studio.

Percussionist

Karim Ziad will

speak during the show.

For 17 years,

Piers Faccini has been

tracing more than a simple discography on the surface of musical news: he has written the sensitive journey of a man who is advancing in age and making his way through the world.

One of the unique characteristics of

Faccini's

writing

is to create original conversations between different musical languages ​​and traditions.

Like the guembri, the iconic instrument belonging to the North African Gnawa traditions and played by the Algerian

Malik Ziad

who

drives

Faccini's

plaintive voice

, creating an improbable marriage of styles and a sort of 21st century multicultural blues on the title

Foghorn Calling.

Piers Faccini.

Julien Mignot

In

Shapes of the Fall

, there is not a sound, a timbre, a rhythm, a bridge between musical territories that is not carefully weighed, thought out.

From the stunning Berber turn that sucks

Firefly

 into a trance to the folk meditations of

Together Forever Everywhere

,

The Real Way Out

 and

The Longest Night.

From Lay Low to Lie

, desert blues which, whipped by the bow strokes, is adorned with the finery of a tarantella, to Levante, where guembri, oud, ternary pulse and volutes of strings are wrapped around the Reunionese kayambo. '

Oriane Lacaille

.

Until the transatlantic call and response of

All Aboard

 →

see the clip

, reinterpretation of the myth of Noah's ark which, through the voices of the Moroccan maalem

Abdelkebir Merchane

and the American

Ben Harper

, embark blues and gnawa singing on board from the same ship ...

Songs of earth and sky

 (EP01)

creation process web series

-

They'll gather no seed

.

Piers Faccini (cover No Format) and Piers Faccini (photo Julien Mignot).

© No Format / Julien Mignot

Songs performed at the Grand studio

Levante

 Live RFI Piers Faccini,

watch the clip

All Aboard

 Feat.

Ben Harper and Abdelkebir Merchane, from the album

Shapes of the Fall

by Piers Faccini

Kadija,

 from the album

Djourou

of Ballaké Sissoko Feat.

Piers Faccini

Firefly,

 from the album

Shapes of the Fall

by Piers Faccini

Dunya

Live RFI Piers Faccini.

Live RFI Sound: 

Mathias Taylor.

Piers Faccini at RFI.

© Laurence Aloir / RFI

Piers Faccini playlist

Hasna El Becharia

Lala y Lala

Yelli Yelli

The Earth

Abdelkebir Merchane

Bouyandi

Camaron de la Isla

Solo Vivo by Quererte.

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