My Wilderness (Froggy Sessions)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7TtITMxr2E
Folk/Blues/Jazz/West African fusion
Singer painter songwriter.
World music-Brit Born & Eton College educated. Italian/English parents--raised in France....yeah WORLD music--folk rock jazz Afro pop!
The World-BBC/WGHB Boston...listen to the interview and segment on NPR
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wvas/ ... s.Faccini/
Read along...NPR - BBC
If you want to know where Piers Faccini's head is at musically-speaking, start here. That's "Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues" by Skip James. He's one of Piers Faccini's big influences. Now, Faccini would instruct you, move deftly from the Mississippi Delta to the rhythms of southern Italy.
That rhythm is called pizzica: the beat of a tambourine accompanying a woman singing. You may not hear those exact sounds in Piers Faccini's music. But deep in the background they're there.
"A song like "Uncover My Eyes," it's really just an a cappella, it's like a sung poem."
That's Piers Faccini.
"...the kind of refrain, the chorus is "sing heart sing, sing heart sing, a river flows in my veins." And it's kind of for me, tapping in, tapping in to the river, the river is where everything, all waters join into that, you know, into that river. We all come from there. We all go back to there."
That may sound a tad metaphysical.
But Piers Faccini's explanation of his song "Uncover My Eyes" is also how he views the universality of the music that has influenced him.
Within "Uncover My Eyes" lies what joins Faccini to the music of both southern Italy AND Skip James.
"A kind of ability to transmit the essential of something, and through the essential, find the poetry. That for me is the most moving thing about what inspired me about Skip James."
Piers Faccini is 29, and was born in London.
He's travelled all over the world and now lives in southern France.
He speaks four languages fluently.
His parents are Italian and British.
As a kid, he listened to Verdi and to English folk music.
But growing up in a London less culturally diverse than it is today, Faccini says his mixed heritage made him feel kind of awkward a lot of the time.
Being introverted sent him in unconventional directions, both socially and musically.
"When I was younger, the way I would travel was going to markets and picking up records that no one wanted from all over the world. And each time I put a record on I'd go on a journey. And so I know music from so many countries that I've never been to."
So today when Piers Faccini makes music, it's HIS brand of traditional music, an amalgam of the sounds he heard as a kid when he travelled in his head.
This song, "Sons and Daughters" has him playing a Persian spike fiddle, and a guitar in the style of Ali Farka Toure.
"For me that music is, at its origin, the kind of basis of all traditional music in the world, wherever it be from. In English, you could use the word complaint. But I don't mean complaint in the sense of complaining. Complaint is a kind of lament, and again, lament doesn't necessarily mean something negative. It just means expressing something fundamental, something that expresses something about your particular situation, in whatever society or story that's going on for you, but more than that, it's expressing something that's totally universal. It's the same thing I hear if I listen to traditional English music, or Irish music, I hear the same thing in traditional Italian music, the music of Puglia in the south of Italy, the pizzica which is just percussion and voice, I hear it in the Mississippi bluesmen, I hear it in Ali Farka or Boubacar Traore from Mali. It's reaching a point where the color seems to be different, but actually what makes the color is the same thing."
Piers Faccini's just-released CD is called "Tearing Sky."
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Two Grains of Sand & Home Away From Home
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Piers Faccini (born Piers Damian G. Faccini; 1970) is an English singer, painter and songwriter.
Piers Faccini was born in London, England to an Italian father and an English mother. His family moved to France when he was five years old.
Faccini first appeared on the music scene in London in 1997, co-founding Charley Marlowe with performance poet Francesca Beard, percussionist Frank Byng and guitarist Lucas Suarez; the band split in 2001 when Faccini decided to pursue a solo career. His first solo album Leave no Trace was released in 2004 by French Independent label Label Bleu. His second album was released by Los Angeles label Everloving Records in 2006; Tearing Sky was produced by JP Plunier, and featured Ben Harper, who Faccini would tour with between 2006 and 2008. His third album released by French Independent 'Tot ou Tard' in 2009 was co-produced by Faccini and Renaud Letang. His upcoming fourth album, My Wilderness, will be released in late 2011 through Six Degrees Records.
Faccini has collaborated over the years with many musicians and singers including Rokia Traore, Busi Mhlongo, Ben Harper, Ballake Sissoko, Vincent Segal, Camille, Francesca Beard, Seb Martel, Patrick Watson and Ibrahim Maalouf amongst others. In March 2011, Faccini contributed to the Patagonia Music Collective, contributing to the UK-based Environmental Justice Foundation.
Time Of Nought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI0Vz2QxyhM
One Of These Things First-- Faccini & Camille--perfection
-haunting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohr6HoU-yfM
If I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB1cd-l ... CEA1FBFD7A
No Reply
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhyfYaG5Do8
My Wilderness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7TtITM ... udlkrSMeWw
Keep listening and listening...amazing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Zvq88 ... CEA1FBFD7A
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