Piers Faccini
Tearing Sky
October 2006
From the organ that opens up this LP to Piers Faccini's heartbreaking voice that shelters and simultaneously shatters as he sings "and the ocean knows each wave that breaks is comin' home," this is music that captivates and captures your imagination. Before long, the rhythms of "Sharpening Bone" and "If I" are having its way with soul, making it groove and soar. Faccini, already popular in his native France, worked with Ben Harper/Jack Johnson producer JP Plunier on Tearing Sky, recording it in less than two weeks in Los Feliz, California. Plunier has a way of bringing out the details in his nuanced artists and his work with Faccini is no exception. He has the quiet, whispering, plate-shifting soul similar to that of Harper and Johnson and, like his contemporaries, he isn't afraid of rising to the occasion or opening up the experience to sounds from across the world, other rooms, galaxies. It's sometimes eerie, sometimes haunting and also consistent. An all-around standout that manages never to show off.
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| 1. Each Wave That Breaks |
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| 2. Sharpeninig Bone |
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| 3. At the Window Of the World |
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| 4. If I |
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| 5. Days Like These |
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| 6. Fire In My Head |
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| 7. Come to the Harvest |
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| 8. Midnight Rolling |
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| 9. Talk to Her |
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| 10. Uncover My Eyes |
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| 11. The Taste of Tears |
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| 12. The Road's Not Long |
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| 13. Sons and Daughters |
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| 14. Walk Over You |
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