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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
Accompanied only by some jostling bells, Piers Faccini stands alone in a garden and delivers a kind of ancient chant, part spiritual, part stripped down work song. It promises a new morning, a new life, but in a world where “all our words will soon be broken.” Like a monk chanting amid incense in an old European monastery, Faccini invokes Biblical images of “seven days, seven nights, seven years, seven lives.” His singing at the end seems to echo a Muslim call to prayer.
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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