New Day Cafe: Piers Faccini and Balake Sissoko

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Monday, Dec. 01, 2025 Monday, Dec. 01, 2025 at 7:30:03am PST

Welcome to the New Day Cafe! This is an open thread.

Via my favorite BBC 6 host, Cerys Matthews, I was introduced to an album I’m loving right now. It’s a collaboration between the British singer Piers Faccini: en.wikipedia.org/...

“Piers Faccini was born in London, England to an Italian father and an English mother. His family moved to France when he was five years old...

In 2009, his album Two Grains Of Sand was nominated for the French independent music award Le Prix Constantin^[11] and was voted album of the year by the listeners of French national radio France Inter. His album with the cellist Vincent Segal, Songs of Time Lost, was in NPR's top ten world music albums of 2014;^[12] it was also included in Songlines' top 10 albums of 2014^[13] as well as in their Greatest World Music Albums of the last five years list...

In February 2025 he released Our Calling, a collaboration with Malian musician Ballaké Sissoko.”

AND Malian musician Ballake Sissoko: en.wikipedia.org/...

“Ballaké Sissoko (born 1968) is a Malian player of the kora. He has worked with Toumani Diabaté and Taj Mahal, and is a member of the group 3MA with Driss El Maloumi and Rajery.”

Maybe you’ll enjoy them together, too.

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