12/14/2019 Piers Faccini Tearing Sky Rare
Within two seconds of hearing them sing, there are some singer/songwriters who you know you're going to hate. Their styles are so affected or goofy that it doesn't matter how pretty the melodies or how clever the lyrics, you're not going to be able to enjoy them. Then there are others whose vocal affectations are equally distracting, but who hold your attention anyway because you can tell there's something deeper beneath the surface, and maybe even something that justifies the vocal goofiness.
's vocal style can't really be called goofy, but it's definitely on the willful side - quavery and often on the thin verge of falsetto, his singing voice sometimes comes across like a frailer approximation of. The similarity may not be entirely accidental, either; on this, his U.S. Debut album, he opens with a song that features scratchy violin, junkyard accordion, a creaky vocal, and a stunningly gorgeous melody - the recipe for about half the songs has written. But is also capable of surprising you, as he does on 'Sharpening Bone' (which starts off lightly funky and then lapses into a sort of dubby acoustic reggae) and on 'Sons and Daughters' (which features something that sounds startlingly like prepared guitar along with something that sounds startlingly like a fiddle being slowly eaten by a dinosaur).
When he goes for minimalist ethereality, the results are hit ('Come the Harvest') and miss ('Days Like These'). Hits outnumber the misses on this album. This guy bears watching.
Contents. Biography Piers Faccini was born in, to an father and an mother. His family moved to when he was five years old. His brother is the writer. Barzanji mp3. Faccini first appeared on the music scene in London in 1997, co-founding with performance poet, percussionist and guitarist Luc 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. His second album was released by Los Angeles label in 2006; Tearing Sky was produced by, and featured, 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. His fourth album, My Wilderness, was released in late 2011. His upcoming fifth album, Between dogs and wolves, will be released in late 2013 on his own label. Faccini has collaborated over the years with many musicians and singers including, Luc Suarez, Seb Martel, and amongst others. In March 2011, Faccini contributed to the, contributing to the UK-based.
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Discography. This Could Be You (2000 - w/ Charley Marlowe). Leave No Trace (2004).
The Streets of London EP (2005). Tearing Sky (2006). Two Grains of Sand (2009).
My Wilderness (2011). Between Dogs and Wolves (2013). Songs of Time Lost (2014). Desert Songs EP (2016 - with ). I Dreamed an Island (2016) References.
Written & Directed by Cyril Gfeller and Piers Faccini Animation: Cyril Gfeller and Igor Kuzmic “A map of the world that does not include utopia is not worth even glancing at for it leaves out the one country at which humanity is always landing. And when humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail.” Oscar Wilde For ‘To Be Sky’, our third video of songs taken from, I Dreamed An Island, I wanted to come up with a story that captured the essence of what had inspired me to write the album. As I wrote ideas down and exchanged with my co-director Cyril Gfeller this summer, I kept thinking of the beautiful and unique ancient Roman city of Palmyra in Syria and of its tragic vandalism by Isis.
Somehow those images lingered in my mind and we decided to build a dramatic narrative, in some way inspired by that horrific footage. We imagined a series of mini theatre sets made out of paper upon which we would project real and filmed silhouettes. As well as an ongoing fascination with animation using paper cut outs, I felt there was something about its nature that captured the nature of memory that the video’s story revolves around. Torn up, burnt or rewritten, a paper world seemed the right metaphor for our fragile times. In ‘To Be Sky’, a lone protagonist arrives on a deserted island and as the song unfolds, we see him wandering through the different landscapes that he discovers; shorelines, forests, deserts and vast canyons.
What is it that he seeks as he intones; “Found an ocean but it dried away, found a rock but it crumbled to dust.” The climax of the video comes with the third verse when our lonely seeker finally stumbles upon what he’s been searching for. “To the gates of the temple I rode, I saw the ruins of the kingdom and wept” But ruins are far from tragic if they’re looked after, like memories they must be dusted down and preserved. The price of forgetting them is too high to imagine! And for the video’s silhouetted protagonist, although he finds himself alone, walking through the ruins and the civilization that he’s been so desperately seeking is now long gone; at least with the ruins, he has the proof of its existence! Those who want to destroy the trace of history do so because it can be proof of a shared multi-cultural past. Revision of memory is the first step to whitewash history in order to re-write it. When Trump defended far right protesters after the events in Charlottesville, when many were marching under Nazi banners, he trod on the memory of Americans who died fighting Nazism in the 2nd world war as well as the memory of six million Jews who died in the Nazi concentration camps.
There’s vandalism of another kind there too but no less shocking or dangerous. For the complicated and slow process of making the video, I followed proceedings from a distance as Cyril Gfeller assisted by Igor Kuzmic used detailed paper cut stages sets combined with back lit projections. The multi-layered three dimensional sets where created with paper, using a vinyl cutter. The various scenes were captured in camera with a motion control system in order to create smooth and repeatable sequences with different passes. The small silhouetted character was filmed on green-screen and integrated in postproduction matching the style of the paper-cut. “Last night, I dreamed an island and as I slept, I heard the music playing.
On her golden shores, I heard the blend of languages and traditions conversing
and of voices joyfully sharing the dance.
All night and through until the dawn, her graceful island music filled the air.”. I’m really pleased to let you know that my latest collaboration “Mother Time” recorded with the very talented BLICK BASSY is now available in limited edition 7” vinyl.
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Photo: Mr Cup Last summer I met Blick Bassy and we sang together for a concert in a Romanesque chapel in the Cevennes near my home. The following morning we agreed to try and write and record something together, the challenge being to get it all done in the three hours we had available before I left for another gig! In the exceptional surroundings of Conqueyrac chapel, we wrote and recorded ‘Mother Time’ as well as putting down a version of the American traditional ‘Make me down a pallet on your floor’ to which Blick Bassy added some words in Bassa, the language of his homeland in Cameroun. Recorded in one take, whilst keeping the overall colour of the chapel’s unique acoustics, this very limited edition 7” vinyl is produced by Beating Drum and Blick Bassy & Piers Faccini – Mother Time by Piers Faccini. Directed and written by Cyril Gfeller and Piers Faccini Installation & animation created, filmed and edited by Cyril Gfeller and Igor Kuzmic For the second video that Cyril Gfeller and I made together for the new album I Dreamed An Island, we created an installation using old cell phones and tablets. We were inspired by the stain glass and rose windows of medieval European cathedrals to remake a 21st century animated equivalent, replacing the windows with the used screens. With stain glass, daylight shines through the windows, illuminating and revealing either script, colour or image.
In our video, we wanted to make a show how even a banal and broken old cellphone could come back to life and light up the gloom before ending up on the stockpile of dead, used phones. Cloak of Blue is our recycled stain glass window machine.
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