Piers Faccini

ET.From his first album, Leave no Trace, in 2004, Piers Faccini unveils a delicate and refined songwriting, drawing on folk, blues and African music. His latest album, Our Calling, a duo with Ballake Sissoko, maintains this initial trajectory of an original and adventurous musician, always on the lookout for new musical routes to explore. In between, there are seven albums (including Shapes of the Fall, winner of the Victoires du Jazz 2021 in the World Music category), which led Télérama to write that he "builds a body of work among the most fascinating of our time." His new album, Faultlines, due out in early 2027, explores the fault line, the tiny space between the said and the unsaid, the place where poetry is born.

When machines, soon to surpass humans in many fields, are capable of writing songs in a matter of seconds, drawing on musical heritage turned into data, what does that imply? Piers Faccini passionately argues for the craftsmanship of songwriting, with his own compositions as a riposte, drawing from the wellspring of humanity and the poetry of its infinite frailties.