Comme certaines pièces de John Renbourn ca me fait érisser les poils des bras... c'est trop bon!

Mali and Ireland musically intertwined. Hope to cross paths with you in those hilly Cevennes.

Chaleur dans l'épure du folk, on s'y reconnaît. Noble et populaire.

Très belle chanson... Elle m'a emportée... Dans des souvenirs de bords de mers Irlandais... :)

Hey Piers just found your music via Nibs Van de Spuy, incredible man, beautiful work!!

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Cortège for Clouds, the third and final single from @petraleksander's upcoming album, is out now! This is a solo piano piece with cycles of melancholy and hope, and was an early musical vignette in the process of making the record. You can give it a spin now wherever you listen to music : https://idol.lnk.to/cortegeforclouds

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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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Cover #19 from the series "Songs I Love" by Piers Faccini

As a guitarist and a songwriter I've been been influenced by many different styles of traditional folk music from around the world. Two of the main schools of influence through which I eventually found my own way of writing were the folk music traditions of England, Scotland and Ireland and those of West Africa, more specifically Mali. In the early nineties, I came across the music of Martin Carthy and Davey Graham at around the same time that I discovered the Malian greats, Boubacar Traore and Ali Farka Toure. As incongruous as it might be to compare the musical equivalent of a frosty winter morning on an English moor with that of sweltering afternoon on the Niger Delta, I've always felt there were endless points of comparison between the two worlds. I began my side project The River, with the Malian master N'goni player, Badje Tounkara and French guitarist Seb Martel in order to deepen this profoundly complementary dialogue. 

Being the descendant of Italian, Irish, Ashkenazi and Gypsy immigrants, I don't have a big claim to represent British or Irish Folk traditions any more than I do those of West Africa but what I do feel I can stake a claim to is the right to blend styles just as my blood has been blended with the trace of so many different languages. I've written several songs both for my own albums and for The River that explore the dialogue between northern European Folk and West African traditions but I wanted for the ongoing Vol II of Songs I love to find a cover that I could play with in the same way. Much has been made of the links between Mississippi blues and Mali but I find the ties between certain aspects of British and Irish and Malian folk to be just as strong. Martin Carthy is one of my all time favorite guitar players, I played Badje Tounkara his version of Cold haily, windy night and Badje said."On dirait la musique de chez nous" "It sounds like music from my country"

With Kitty I'll go is a wonderful song that I first heard sung by the extraordinary Norma Waterson. I fell in love with it when I discovered Waterson Carthy's first album. Reading Martin Carthy's original liner notes, I found out that it was an Irish song and that there is also a version in Gaelic. I live in the hills of the Cevennes, in a land that I left London for in order to 'ramble over the mountains wild.' so singing these wonderful words feels like a perfect match!
Here's my version of a wonderful traditional, I hope you'll enjoy it!

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Piers Faccini - With Kitty I'll Go (Songs I Love #19)

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Cover #20 from the series "Songs I Love" by Piers Faccini

I first heard this song on my favourite Pentangle album ´Solomon's seal'. I read later that it was Anne Brigg´s beautiful a cappella version recorded in 1971 that brought this jewel of a song to wider acclaim. Like much of the great English folk canon, this early C19th song blends a delicate and haunting melody with some stunning poetry.
My friend, the South African guitarist and songwriter Nibs van der Spuy introduced me to Dick Gaughan's masterpiece 'Handful of Earth' while we were on tour in South Africa a few years ago. If I had to pick my favourite version of The snows they melt the soonest, it would doubtless be Gaughan's wonderfully intense and amost spoken rendition.
I live in the Cevennes in Southern France and during the Summer I organize acoustic concerts in the region. For each show, I share the stage with a different artist and friend. After Dawn Landes in May and Vincent Segal in June, I invited Nibs for July's concert in the Romanesque chapel of Sainte Croix de Caderle. I took advantage of him staying for a couple of days at our home to record a version of The snows they melt the soonest, a song we both love!

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One of the most well known pieces from Segovia's twenty studies by Fernando Sor, Estudio No. 5 is a reflective and beautiful classical guitar piece. Recorded by William Wilson on a Teodoro Perez guitar. More on william at Facebook.com/wmwilsonguitar

Estudio No. 5 - Moderato - Fernando Sor

Written and recorded over 2 days in South East London, ‘Carried’ is a collaborative EP from violinist Fiona Brice, cellist Tony Woollard and composer/producer Jim Perkins. The project began as an antidote to the sometimes laborious academic tradition of composing, scoring, revising, rehearsing, recording, editing and producing music. 

Each piece was created without score or prior preparation, relying on instinct, discussion and collaboration, with a focus on capturing the energy and essence of an idea whilst it is still fresh. 

The result is a suite of 5 emotive, meditative and distinctive pieces combining drones, elements of minimalism and chamber music with textured harmonics and the occasional melodic line. ‘Carried’ honours the spontaneity and spark of a new idea and nurtures it, creating a deeply engaging and cinematic sound.
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releases May 24, 2019 

Violin - Fiona Brice 
Cello - Tony Woollard 
Piano - Jim Perkins, Fiona Brice 
Tape Processing on Murmurs by Jameson Nathan Jones 
All tracks written by Tony Woollard, Fiona Brice and Jim Perkins 
Recorded and produced by Jim Perkins 
Mastered by Ben Wiffen 
Artwork by Lucille Clerc.

Carried

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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.

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