Shapes of The Fall, by Piers Faccini

Shapes of The Fall

by Piers Faccini

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Tracklist
A.1 They Will Gather No Seed
A.2 Foghorn Calling
A.3 Dunya
A.4 Together Forever Everywhere
A.5 All Aboard ft. Ben Harper & Abdelkebir Merchane
A.6 Paradise Fell
B.1 Levante
B.2 Lay Low To Lie
B.3 The Longest Night
B.4 Firefly
B.5 Remember Them
B.6 The Real Way Out

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1.	They Will Gather No Seed 03:22	buy track
2.	Foghorn Calling 03:27	buy track
3.	Dunya 04:30	buy track
4.	Together Forever Everywhere 04:18	buy track
5.	All Aboard ft. Ben Harper & Abdelkebir Merchane 03:31	buy track
6.	Levante 03:57	buy track
7.	Lay Low To Lie 04:30	buy track
8.	The Longest Night 03:04	buy track
9.	Firefly 03:45	buy track
10.	Paradise Fell 02:33	buy track
11.	Remember Them 02:18	buy track
12.	The Real Way Out 02:45	buy track
13.	Epilogue 02:29	buy track

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With his seventh studio album, Shapes of the Fall, Piers Faccini, pursues his passion for pursuing the kind of cross-cultural dialogues that have long been heard on Mediterranean shores throughout the centuries, bridging southern Europe with the Near East and Africa. Although the songs are written and sung in English, the musical influences in Shapes of the Fall draw heavily on Faccini’s own Mediterranean ancestry, creating a musical voyage whose geography varies from song to song, crossing multiple frontiers with his voice over the course of the journey, from the snow tipped anglo-american Folk registers of songs like Paradise Fell or Together Forever Everywhere to the eerie desert blown notes of Middle Eastern or north African modes in tracks like Firefly or Dunya.
Ruin or repair and hope or despair are the album‘s parallel narratives and if shapes of the fall are the myriad endangered forms that make up the mosaic of our environmental collapse, the descent, Faccini sings, is of our doing or undoing. ''Bring me my home back'' the chorus of the album’s emblamatic opening song They Will Gather No Seed is not then, the singer’s personal cry for a home but the animal lament of innumerable species on the brink of extinction.

Faccini who has previously collaborated with cellist Vincent Segal for their 2014 duo album Songs of Time Lost has collaborated over the years with musicians far and wide in search of musical dialogue such as Ballake Sissoko, Ibrahim Maalouf or Jasser Haj Youssef. Two exceptional voices feature on the album; Californian singer-songwriter Ben Harper, a collaborator from his 2005 album, Tearing Sky and Moroccan singer and master of the trance traditions known as Gnawa, Abdelkebir Merchane. The album was co-produced by Piers Faccini and Fred Soulard.

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Avec son septième album, Shapes of the Fall, Piers Faccini touche à l’essence même de son songwriting. Orchestrant des échanges profonds entre folksongs, pulsations gnawas et quatuor à cordes, il peaufine un art qui se nourrit de l’héritage anglo-américain, des traditions de la Méditerranée, du Maghreb et de l’Afrique de l’Ouest comme de la musique ancienne ou baroque.
Cette vision transversale, il la pousse à son plus juste degré d’épure en s’entourant de compagnons de route au diapason : les frères Malik et Karim Ziad, l’arrangeur Lucas Suarez, le co-réalisateur Frédéric Soulard, et deux invités de marque, le maâlem marocain Abdelkebir Merchane et l’Américain Ben Harper, réunis sur le titre-phare All Aboard. Fort d’aussi précieux soutiens, Piers Faccini peut décliner en musique et en poésie l’interrogation qui traverse tout ce recueil de chansons : comment vivre et composer avec l’effondrement du monde ? Shapes of the Fall y fait écho en brossant un tableau regorgeant de nuances : le pouvoir guérisseur de la danse et de la transe répond à la beauté primitive de la complainte, l’intime et l’universel s’enlacent, la gravité se fendille peu à peu pour mieux laisser passer la lumière.

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released April 2, 2021

PRODUCED BY PIERS FACCINI AND FREDERIC SOULARD

ALL SONGS BY PIERS FACCINI EXCEPT *
* DUNYA - MUSIC AND LYRICS BY PIERS FACCINI AND MALIK ZIAD
* ALL ABOARD - LYRICS WRITTEN BY PIERS FACCINI, MUSIC BY PIERS FACCINI AND MALIK ZIAD, ARRANGED BY KARIM ZIAD

FOGHORN CALLING AND REMEMBER THEM, ARRANGED BY MALIK ZIAD
ARRANGEMENTS FOR STRING QUARTET ON DUNYA, TOGETHER FOREVER EVERYWHERE, LAY LOW TO LIE AND PARADISE FELL BY LUC SUAREZ
ARRANGEMENTS FOR STRING QUARTET ON THEY WILL GATHER NO SEED BY LUC SUAREZ AND FREDERIC SOULARD

RECORDED AT BLACKBOX, ANGERS, FRANCE BY FREDERIC SOULARD AND ETIENNE CLAUZEL
DRUMS BY SIMONE PRATTICO ON DUNYA AND LAY LOW TO LIE
RECORDED BY FRANCESCO DE NIGRIS AT NGR (ROMA, IT)

BEN HARPER RECORDED HIS VOICE AND ACOUSTIC SLIDE GUITAR ON ALL ABOARD AT HOME IN L.A, ABDELKEBIR MERCHANE ON ALL ABOARD RECORDED BY TARIK HMITI, AT HMTI, MARRAKECH, MOROCCO
STRINGS RECORDED BY SÉBASTIEN TONDO AT STUDIO 12 TER, MONTREUIL, FRANCE

MIXED BY FREDERIC SOULARD ASSISTED BY LÉO NIVOT AT STUDIO MÉCHANT, PARIS, FRANCE
MASTERED BY CHAB AT CHAB MASTERING, PARIS, FRANCE

© ℗ 2021 NØ FØRMAT! / BEATING DRUM

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If my songs were maps I'd want them to stretch from the English moors to the Saharan dunes via the plains of the Mediterranean.

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