Real musicians have an obsession: to see their art freeze, lose its vitality and breath inside. How to maintain over time the flame at the dawn of their vocation, lit the wick of their inspiration? Some toil regularly change air, style, tools or partners: each project is an opportunity for them to cut ties with the past, clearing unknown territories. Others, however, prefer to patiently digging the same furrow, the better to deepen and broaden, and thus, turning them patiently lopin, qu’ils réussissent à retrouver la fraîcheur du commencement, la pureté virginale du geste créateur. Tel est Piers Faccini, semeur de beautés, dont chaque moisson de chansons tranche naturellement avec le tout-venant du songwriting. Ses deux premiers albums, Leave No Trace (2004) et Tearing Sky (2006), avaient révélé un musicien cultivant un jardin éminemment personnel, à l’abri des vents tournants de la mode et à bonne distance des productions standardisées du folk, du blues ou du rock. Aujourd’hui, Two Grains of Sand apporte cette évidence : Piers Faccini vit seul sur une terre que, par la grâce de l’expérience, il a su rendre encore plus féconde, more generous. Piers Faccini said to recognize in the phrase of Francis Bacon, who said: "I'm an optimist about nothing." When you really see the world in the face, realistically, it is impossible not to be offended or saddened. Yet it is the prevailing optimism in Two Grains of Sand: for it is the optimism that flows through the veins of the author and gives the overall color of his songs. As good a painter as a musician, Piers Faccini is fully aware of the expressive strength of chiaroscuro or science contrasts. He can check more than ever in Two Grains of Sand, hard as dark in the background as sparks in shape.
Prohom
The idea came during the mixes of "whatever" in 2004. Already the desire to provide a larger universe, to break their electro-rock were strongly present, but impossible to put up with the musicians of the era. In 2006 Philip Prohom begins rehearsing with Richard Lornac (The Pianist's jester at France Inter), but schedules and geographic distance come to the end of this collaboration. When "round trips" out In 2007, the new line-up already naturally slips into a more acoustic direction and even finish the tour in a formula without machines. Christian Fradin (who officiated for ten years with Etienne Daho Dani or to name a few) is already part of the piano. In late 2008, although the project to mount a duo is already in the minds of both protagonists, the sudden death of François Lebleu, friend and drummer on the album and tour
"round trips", which precipitates and recorded the first rehearsals in a hurry to recover from this tragic event. So early 2009 that Christian and Philip begin to mount the new directory and adapt the old. The duo wants to offer a dynamic set, a world based on emotion and energy, hence the presence of electro, acoustic guitars
and maintenance of this special relationship that Philip knows how to establish a hearing . Only a few months are enough to seduce an audience, saying "live a privileged moment
at every concert," finding a new structure for the tour (Fred Lomey for Melodyne, a "subsidiary" of Blueline), signed to a publisher ( Chrysalis France) and begin recording with producer Mazarin (Olivia Ruiz, No One Is Innocent, among others).
Today, a first single will be offered to the media, a 4 track Ep is ready for release (vinyl and digital) and an album is already written, composed and planned for fall 2010.
Side live, the duo released a residency at the Icebreaker in Annecy, which helped refine the concept on stage (with the sound Lafraise, collaborator of Philip and Eric for 9 years Lombral to light).
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