With his seventh studio album, Shapes of the Fall, Piers Faccini, pursues his passion for pursuing the kind of cross-cultural dialogues that have long been heard on Mediterranean shores throughout the centuries, bridging southern Europe with the Near East and Africa. This transversal vision is pushed to its purest degree by surrounding himself with fellow travelers, notably the American Ben Harper and the Moroccan maâlem Abdelkebir Merchane, united on the title track “All Aboard”. Piers Faccini declines in music and in poetry the question which crosses all this collection of songs: how to live with the collapse of the world?