"Meeting Is Over" - Moira Smiley feat. Piers Faccini and Seamus Egan [Folk Radio UK Premiere]
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- Опубліковано 28 гру 2021
- "Meeting Is Over" is a stripped-down, acoustic anthem that celebrates the cycles of life and death, endings and renewal, farewells and reunion. A perfect song then to bid farewell to 2021 and to look forward to new horizons in 2022. This release is a cross-continental collaboration between two soulful and expressive singer/songwriters, Piers Faccini (France) and Moira Smiley (USA). Both artists are well known for partnering with many leading musical lights - Smiley with Tune-Yards, Solas, and Sam Amidon ; Faccini with Ben Harper, Camille, and Don La Nena.
Meeting Is Over is an old American song about “meeting on the other shore”. Driven by Smiley on the banjo with Faccini on guitar and the West African guembri, the single also features Irish multi-instrumentalist Seamus Egan on guitar.
The haunting and yet comforting harmonies reflect on goodbyes with those we love the most-the ebb and flow of togetherness that life presents.
Available everywhere December 30, 2021
Traditional, arr. Moira Smiley. Public Domain.
Moira Smiley / vocals, banjo, arranger
Piers Faccini / vocals, fretless guitar, guembri
Seamus Egan / nylon string guitar
Produced by Moira Smiley. Mixed and mastered by David Weber of Airtime Studios.
Personal note from Moira:
When I first heard Piers sing - on a snowy night in NYC - I was deeply moved by the way his high notes keened and spun as if he had access to a collective grief we’d forgotten. I feel that expression of grief to be part of the work of singing - whether wild and expressionist or gentle - so I knew that ‘Meeting Is Over’ would be the perfect song for us to sing together.
This arrangement started with me making the rolling, hypnotic banjo part while I was singing the song in 2020. Seamus and I sat down to play one night, and he found a guitar part that fit to the banjo like a glove. We sent these sounds to Piers and he sent a treasure chest of instrumental and vocal sounds back from his recording studio in France. I put it all together and finished it with my longtime collaborator, Dave Weber of Airtime Studios.
This is how I want to cross over into the new year - holding memorial for the farewells and preparing to arrive on new ground.
The video came together quickly when I encountered my friend’s storybook-like boat on our nearby Lake Champlain. With the deft, musical video editing of longtime collaborator, Ben Guzmán, we told this story of intimacy on the journey as inspired by two of my favorite films, ‘Roma’ and ‘Babette’s Feast’.
And a little history…I learned this old Appalachian, ‘camp meeting’ song when I was 10 or 11 years old, and wow, was it the perfect song for a kid to learn about life’s cycle of sadness and reassurances with verses of goodbye and choruses of ‘…we’ll land on the shore and be safe forevermore’. I believe my version is tied to the early 1960s field recording of singer, Buna Hicks in Beech Mountain, North Carolina via the Amidon family.
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I only discovered Moira a week or so ago and I have to say I feel like I've been missing out. Her music is special.
Dear Moira; So incredibly, mesmerizing and deeply touching..A beautiful reminder of life's cycles.. I miss you and look forward to connecting again in person in the near future. Wishing you a joy-filled, healthy 2022..Sending love from the island to you, 💌Jan
Been singing this song for years. And I love this so much. Thank you thank you thank you ♥️
simply beautiful Moira!!! love the harmonies and the idea!
Absolutely beautiful - so moving :)
I absolutely love the song and this video, Moira! 💜❄🌲
Steph!! that means a lot to me. Thank you for listening. xox
Just listened to this on BBC radio 3. Beautiful song, still trying go figure it out
You make your banjo sing as beautifully as you do!
Bella intesa bravissimi
DAS loves Moira !!
Moira loves DAS!!!