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Mississippi and Mali. The Delta blues and the mesmerizing music of West Africa. Those are the sounds and spirits that struck Piers Faccini to the core, shaping his expressive, intimate songs. But with his Anglo-Italian heritage, you can also hear English folk songs and old Naples rhythms in his music, as well as lyrical debts to Sufi poetry.
We first met Piers when he wrote theme music for the pilot episode of our upcoming PBS series, SOUND TRACKS. We’d heard his dark warning, “A Storm is Going to Come,” on “Grey’s Anatomy” and we knew he’d toured with Ben Harper and Amadou and Mariam. For “Quick Hits,” he agreed to perform three songs and to talk about his new album, “My Wilderness.”
Don't miss other Quick Hits starring Abigail Washburn, Seun Kuti, Dengue Fever, Charles Bradley & Sharon Jones, Helene Grimaud, Jovanotti, KT Tunstall, Meklit Hadero, Ozomatli, and Seu Jorge. For more info visit Sound Tracks's site.
Piers Faccini Performs “No Reply”
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Piers Faccini Performs “A New Morning”
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Interview with Piers Faccini
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Piers Faccini Performs “Two Grains of Sand”
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Piers Faccini Slideshow
“Two Grains of Sand” is the title track from Piers Faccini’s previous album released in 2009. As you’ll see in this acoustic guitar, solo performance, it’s a sad, intimate, philosophical song with an oblique story of jealousy and violence. There’s “a murder buried under autumn leaves” and a plaintive cry: “How can we turn to violence and burn/ Forget all we've learned/ to darkness return.” But as with many of Faccini’s songs, the dark lyric is wrapped in a graceful melody, this time with traces of the Beatles at their most wistful.
Piers Faccini’s website: http://www.piersfaccini.com/
Piers Faccini’s “My Wilderness” album label, Six Degrees Records: http://www.sixdegreesrecords.com/home.php
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