Piers Faccini & Vincent Segal - Songs of Time Lost (2014)

Piers Faccini and Vincent Segal met in Paris in the late 1980s and have been friends ever since. Songs of Time Lost is their first joint album. Using voice, guitar and cello - and in a variety of languages from English to Neapolitan dialect and Creole - the album brings together original compositions, traditional songs and some covers. Why did the two musicians wait twenty-five years? Piers and Vincent are great believers in things taking the time they need. And it takes time to make sense of the world s music, to refine performance, to absorb the complexity of songs. Songs of Time Lost is focused on the moment, but with over two decades of joint performances, friendship and mutual understanding behind it, binding the whole together. Since recording his debut solo album in 2003 Leave no Trace Faccini has come to be recognized worldwide as a fine singer-songwriter at the cusp of pop and folk. In 2013 he started up his own label Beating Drum and in the same year released his acclaimed fifth solo album Between Dogs and Wolves. Vincent Segal is a French cellist immersed in a variety of music traditions, from his dance/electronica duo Bumcello to his collaboration with Ballaké Sissoko on the acclaimed Chamber Music album, and with a host of luminaries including Blackalicious, Cesaria Evora, Sting, Marianne Faithfull and Elvis Costello.