PIERS FACCINI
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A citizen of his own imagination, Piers Faccini pursues his passion for an eclectic and borderless form of song writing.
Folk craftsman Piers Faccini has always opened the doors of his art to influences from all over the world. If his songs were maps, they would stretch from the English moors to the Saharan dunes, across the parched plains of the Mediterranean Sea before crossing the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi Delta. Timeless and far from trends, the British and Italian songwriter transcends the boundaries of his art through multiple collaborations (Ballake Sissoko, Vincent Segal, Ben Harper, Rokia Traore, etc.), drawing on traditional music to celebrate the nobility of a wild and ancestral world and to save it from extinction. With Algerian musician Malik Ziad, with whom he has been collaborating since 2016, he soaks up the exalted rhythms of Gnawa and Chaabi popular music and delivers stellar blues, at the crossroads of Africa and Europe. If music is a journey, Faccini’s is a world tour.
Temple de Satigny, Satigny
Satigny’s temple is humble, with its classical front façade, which refers to that of the Temple de la Fusterie in Geneva, and its solid buttresses. Formerly the church of Saint-Pierre-aux-liens, built in the 13th century, it was converted into a Protestant temple during the Reformation. It is characterised by a semi-circular, five-sided choir, preceded by a triumphal arch, one of the only examples preserved in the Canton, along with Saint Peter’s Cathedral. It houses a Tablet of Stone designed in 1689 by Jacques Nicod, a French refugee.
