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piers Faccini

Sing, Heart Sing

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Piers Faccini

From new album Between Dogs And Wolves (out now)

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'Broken mirror' is about not seeing one's self clearly as if I was seeing myself in multiple broken fragments of broken mirrors. The song is about seeing something and then missing it again, over and over. In contrast, I wanted the chorus to offset that with an intense and emotional plea "I know that I've never been apart from you." 
I wanted to set a premise lyrically in the verse, like a bow that's tightened, and then with the chorus you release the tension, and the arrow is released. 
Musically, there's really strong inspiration of British folk music in this song. Songs that have been written way before the age of the modern songwriter, not knowing who the songs were written by, old songs…

Lyrics:

I was only a tide apart
Only as close as fingers touch
I was only an age away
Only as near as tongues can taste

But the whole plane shattered for me
Gone with every little thing I see
I know that i've never been apart from you
And I know that i've never been apart from you

I was only a wing apart
Only as pressed as arms can hold
I was only one breeze north
Only as joined as limbs can take

You were only a whisper down 
Only as far as pleasure breaks
You were only the crying gone
Only as high as voices reach

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Piers Faccini - Broken Mirror (From Between Dogs And Wolves)

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Tidal Tendencies

Indian Summer

OP 𓅛 mix 9 - High Water mix

"Winter in June" is part of "Athanòr Session Two" (Sun Generation Records)

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"Scared" is part of "Athanòr Session Two" (Sun Generation Records)

The Visitors Attak - Scared (preview)

Flight Facilities - Stand Still feat. Micky Green will be released on Future Classic & Glassnote
Now available as part of the debut album Down To Earth.
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'Stand Still' features an extended cast of ‘friends’ including the vocals of close friend Micky Green, the highly respected Sydney-born-Paris-based pop singer whose sweeping melodies add bubblegum sweetness to an otherwise high-tempo single. The final mix also comes courtesy of James David, one half of mysterious UK duo Snakehips. Old friends of Micky’s, Jimmy and Hugo have also chosen to work with another familiar face for the official music video in Director Dave Ma, the creative force behind the ARIA 2013 nominated clip for much lauded single 'Clair De Lune'.

‘Stand Still’ will be available with three incredible remixes, featuring Sydney’s Wave Racer, Future Classic alumni (and Lithuania’s Producer of the Year) Mario Basanov, and New York’s Com Truise, who brings his synth-heavy sounds to the table. 

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Full EP out 9th December 2013

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Stand Still (feat. Micky Green)

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This summer, Sylvie Lewis and Dawn Landes came to visit me at my home; Sylvie had written to me a few weeks earlier to say that she and Dawn were passing through en route to Spain and would love to meet up and hang out for a day. At that time, I was in the middle of proof reading the last version of the Songs I Love book before sending it off to the printers but it felt like as good a time as any to start on the next installment of the series. 
Dawn and Sylvie had been singing 'Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key' by Woody Guthrie during their summer tour and although we initially thought about doing that one, it inspired me to get out some old Lead Belly vinyls. Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly who played and recorded together were undoubtedly among the greatest and most prolific American songwriters of all time and both of these unique writers documented their age in the most profound way, carrying the torch for the disenfranchised and the poor. 
Their songs, like the great American literature of the time such as Steinbeck's 'The grapes of wrath,' stand as pillars of 20th century American culture; almost everything I hear today pales in significance compared with the power of these two songwriting giants. 

In the end I suggested to Dawn and Sylvie we record a song Lead Belly used to sing, 'There's a man going round taking names'. I've always loved this song although I've never quite grasped the meaning of the lyrics. There's such a power to the words 'there's a man going round taking names' - both profound and slightly sinister, my sense is that it refers to being marked out for hell or heaven according to our actions. (If anyone knows the significance and meaning of this song, please let me know!) 
It was a joy to sing it with Dawn and Sylvie in one take, sitting around one microphone, the window open and the birds joining in outside.
Vol 2 of Songs I Love is underway!

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Piers Faccini, Dawn Landes, Sylvie Lewis - There's a man going round taking names (Cover #18)

OP 𓅛 mix 7 - Nicolas Jaar - Our World (2013)

From Dogs and Wolves - EP (Beating Drum, March, 2014)
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'Wait by the Water' was recorded a few months ago at the theatre de l'Athénée in Paris with the gifted violinist Jasser Haj Youssef.
I wrote it after having finished Between Dogs and Wolves album with the live show in mind. I wanted to sing something that would work as a way of tuning ourselves into the right frequency in order to listen to quiet and intimate music. 

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Piers Faccini & Jasser Haj Youssef - Wait By The Water

Cover #21 from the series "Songs I Love" by Piers Faccini
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Since I first started up Songs I Love, the series has been a way for me to share songs with some of the different friends and artists that I play with.  So last summer while recording Jenny Lysander's album Northern Folk, we also found the time late one August evening, to record a cover for the ongoing Volume II of the series. 
Nottamun Town is an old English folk song that I first discovered on Fairport Convention's 1969 album 'What we did on our holidays', their version was sung by the great Sandy Denny. Between takes recording Jenny's album, we'd spend a lot of the down time listening to music. I love playing records for friends and seeing the excitement on their faces as they discover new music. I played Jenny some of my favorite singers like Anne Briggs, June Tabor or Joni Mitchell. 
Listening to Nottamun Town, some of you may be reminded of Bob Dylan and he used the same melody for his song Masters of War. There's a trance like cadence to the strange and original lyrics in Nottamun Town and Dylan used this relentless and hypnotic rhythm to great effect in his timeless anti-war anthem. According to various sources the original song dates back to medieval times and there's a theory that the surreal nature of the text relates to the traditional day The Feast of Fools, during which time which power was briefly conferred on those in a subordinate position. On this day, the fool took his revenge, the servant beat his master and the cat chased the hounds! So for the full sensory experience as you listen to this song, picture a Hieronymous Bosch painting in your mind and enjoy!

"Met the King and the Queen and the company more
Came a riding behind and a walking before
Come a stark naked drummer -a beating a drum
With his heels in his bosom come marching along"

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Black Rose plays out against a desolate backdrop of distant mountains. The desert is where the lovers search for each other, unbearably close to another, intangibly far away. I wanted the song to be a cross between a love poem and a song. Black Rose is the flower that seduces before disappearing into the desert night.

Lyrics "Black Rose":

I was the skin for your thorns
The pale light for your bloom
Black rose

I was the blood for your earth
The twilight in your poison
Black rose

Across the mark of unlit roads 
Black rose black rose
I wait for you where no one goes 
Black rose black rose

I was the undecided conscience borne
The fragment of a shattered sun 
Black rose

I was the last of the good
You have left me without name 
Black rose

Across the mark of unlit roads 
Black rose black rose
I wait for you where no one goes 
Black rose black rose

I loved and I love you still
I want you but I have lost my will


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Piers Faccini - Black Rose (From Between Dogs And Wolves)

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I started out as a painter writing music on the side and then I ended up writing songs and painting on the sly. If my songs were maps I'd want them to stretch from the English moors to the Saharan dunes via the plains of the Mediterrannean.
Most of the time, I release my music on my own label Beating Drum.
I've collaborated with many wonderful artists and musicians over the years, amongst them, Vincent Segal, Ballake Sissoko, Ben Harper, Ibrahim Maalouf and Rokia Traore and more.