UPCOMING NEW ALBUM: SHAPES OF THE FALL (OUT APRIL 02, 2021)
Label: Nø Førmat ! & Beating Drum
01. They Will Gather No Seed
02. Foghorn Calling
03. Dunya
04. Together Forever Everywhere
05. All Aboard ft. Ben Harper & Abdelkebir Merchane
06. Levante
07. Lay Low To Lie
08. The Longest Night
09. Firefly
10. Paradise Fell
11. Remember Them
12. The Real Way Out
13. Epilogue
FIRST SINGLE FROM THE ALBUM: THE REAL WAY OUT
SINGLE 2: FOGHORN CALLING
SHAPES OF THE FALL – PRESS RELEASE (ENG)
With his seventh studio album, Shapes of the Fall, Piers Faccini, pursues his passion for pursuing the kind of cross-cultural dialogues that have long been heard on Mediterranean shores throughout the centuries, bridging southern Europe with the Near East and Africa. Although the songs are written and sung in English, the musical influences in Shapes of the Fall draw heavily on Faccini’s own Mediterranean ancestry, creating a musical voyage whose geography varies from song to song, crossing multiple frontiers with his voice over the course of the journey, from the snow tipped anglo-american Folk registers of songs like Paradise Fell or Together Forever Everywhere to the eerie desert blown notes of Middle Eastern or north African modes in tracks like Firefly or Dunya.
Ruin or repair and hope or despair are the album‘s parallel narratives and if shapes of the fall are the myriad endangered forms that make up the mosaic of our environmental collapse, the descent, Faccini sings, is of our doing or undoing. ”Bring me my home back” the chorus of the album’s emblematic opening song They Will Gather No Seed is not then, the singer’s personal cry for a home but the animal lament of innumerable species on the brink of extinction.
Faccini who has previously collaborated with cellist Vincent Segal for their 2014 duo album Songs of Time Lost has collaborated over the years with musicians far and wide in search of musical dialogue such as Ballake Sissoko, Ibrahim Maalouf or Jasser Haj Youssef. Two exceptional voices feature on the album; Californian singer-songwriter Ben Harper, a collaborator from his 2005 album, Tearing Sky and Moroccan singer and master of the trance traditions known as Gnawa, Abdelkebir Merchane. The album was co-produced by Piers Faccini and Fred Soulard.
SHAPES OF THE FALL (FR)
Avec son septième album, Shapes of the Fall, Piers Faccini touche à l’essence même de son songwriting. Orchestrant des échanges profonds entre folksongs, pulsations gnawas et quatuor à cordes, il peaufine un art qui se nourrit de l’héritage anglo-américain, des traditions de la Méditerranée, du Maghreb et de l’Afrique de l’Ouest comme de la musique ancienne ou baroque.
Cette vision transversale, il la pousse à son plus juste degré d’épure en s’entourant de compagnons de route au diapason : les frères Malik et Karim Ziad, l’arrangeur Lucas Suarez, le co-réalisateur Frédéric Soulard, et deux invités de marque, le maâlem marocain Abdelkebir Merchane et l’Américain Ben Harper, réunis sur le titre-phare All Aboard. Fort d’aussi précieux soutiens, Piers Faccini peut décliner en musique et en poésie l’interrogation qui traverse tout ce recueil de chansons : comment vivre et composer avec l’effondrement du monde ? Shapes of the Fall y fait écho en brossant un tableau regorgeant de nuances : le pouvoir guérisseur de la danse et de la transe répond à la beauté primitive de la complainte, l’intime et l’universel s’enlacent, la gravité se fendille peu à peu pour mieux laisser passer la lumière.
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Anaïs Ledoux (Beating Drum / CryBaby) – beatingdrummusic@gmail.com
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