Piers Faccini & Ballaké Sissoko


Biography Piers Faccini & Ballaké Sissoko


Piers Faccini
born in 1970, is a French-Italian singer-songwriter. He is able to fascinate the international audience thanks to his music made of the different influences of the two cultures and languages that shaped him.

Faccini’s career started in 1997 when he founded Charley Marlowe together with poet Francesca Beard, percussionist Frank Byng, and guitarist Luc Suarez. After the release of This Could Be You (2000), however, the band broke up and Faccini carried on with his solo career.

His first successful album was Leave no Trace, published in 2004 by the independent record label Label Bleu, which was followed by Tearing Sky (2006), published by Everloving Records.

Three years later, the record Two Grains of Sand (2009)) granted Faccini the nomination for French independent music award Le Prix Costantin and was voted by listeners of France Inter Radio as Album of the Year.

In 2011 and 2013 Faccini published respectively My Wilderness and Between Dogs and Wolves, while collaborating with international artists such as Rokia Traorè, Ballakè Sissoko, and Vincent Sègal. With the latter, Piers recorded the album Songs of Time Lost (2014), which reached the first positions in NPR and Songline charts that same year. The latest album by Faccini was I Dreamed an Island, published by Ponderosa Music&Arts in 2016. It is a record full of musical contaminations that crosses and fills geographical distances. Faccini’s style blends Provençal atmospheres with baroque guitars and bagpipes and enchanted the Italian public during three concerts in Milan (Salumeria della Musica), Venice (Fondaco dei Tedeschi), and Turin (Folk Club).

Ballaké Sissoko
(Bamako, Mali, 1968), began playing kora, typical griot instrument used by storytellers in West Africa, at a very young age. In 1998 he released his first solo album Kora Music from Mali Kora–Solo Album, while the following year he duetted with Tourmani Diabaté, a renowned Malian griot musician and kora player. In September 2003 Ballaké Sissoko published for Ponderosa Diario Mali, together with Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi. The album traced an ideal journey into the heart of Africa.

In 2005 Sissoko published Tomora, where he collaborated again with Tourmani Diabaté and with artists such as Alboulkadri Barry, Rokia Traoré, and Fanga Diawara. After 2009 collaboration with the cellist Vincent Ségal, in 2013 Sissoko published another solo album: At Peace. A record of remembrance and celebration of his homeland, Mali. The album, made of traditional and evocative sounds, expressed peace and serenity. In 2015 Sissoko engaged in a new collaboration with Vincent Ségal in the album Musique de Nuit, while in 2019 he published his latest work Sissoko & Sissoko, a collection of duets with the musician Baba Sissoko.



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