#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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