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The Damned and the Saved, Piers Faccini’s latest single is a bonus track from his album Shapes of the Fall, recently described in the Uk’s Guardian as being one of the hidden gems of 2021. Continuing with the album’s theme of salvation and despair within the context of the Earth’s catastrophic biodiversity collapse and climate disruption, Faccini sings of the myriad plants and species, treasured habitats, wildernesses and ecosystems in peril; which one will be saved, which one will be damned, he asks.
The Damned and the Saved doesn’t dwell on darkness, instead it calls us to the light, with musical inspiration taken from traditional Mediterranean and North African healing trance rhythms played on guembri and aouisha by the Algerian brothers, Karim and Makik Ziad as well as the percussive instruments, the kayamb and koulins, emblematic of trance music from the island of La Reunion, played by Oriane Lacaille who also lends her soulful voice to the rousing choruses.
Piers Faccini is a 21st century Folk singer, a singer songwriter used to dancing between borders to craft songs that blend the rich weave of his nomadic explorations. The Damned and the saved is a song for today, speaking of today, but with its cross cultural and musical explorations, it summo inspiration from ancient and ancestral rhythms to bring us closer to the needs and pulse of the Earth and all her animal inhabitants in peril.
