I want to thank all the great people who helped me record or occasionally accompanied me live, and those are, without an alphabetical or any order: Eric Nelson, Eamon Grogan, Dave Duffield, John Morrell, Tony McLaren, Matt Glover, Mark Grimes, Pule Moni, Mike "Flash" Dalton, Rick Clingman, Jason Stewart, Jason Honl, Russel Smith, Dillion Atkin, Ian Beaver, Alex Maher and Michael Mc Cabe. Also, going back to the times when I was still busking in the streets of Amsterdam, Liege, Paris, Sttutgart, Zurich, and other places in Europe, a few names that are carved into my heart are Ljubo, Cem Francois, Rey Tester, then Joseph Strauss, Raphael, Vincent, Yan Pichon, Nico, Gustavo and Guillermo Venturino (WWW.GUILLERMOVENTURINO.COM), making the musical journey unforgettable...
Influences
Delta Blues, Chicago Blues, Eastern European Gypsy Music, Oriental Music, Classical Music, Jazz, Rock, Pop, Funk...
Sounds Like
A mixture of Van Morrison, Jose Feliciano, James Marshall Hendrix, Eric Clapton, J.J. Cale, Mark Knopfler, Santana, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Tom Waits, John Hammond, David Sylvian, Leonard Cohen...
His work is original contemporary acoustic ballads and blues informed by years of travel and living outloud. His songs and melodies are enriched with his personal history. You hear a certain overlay from the influences of the gypsy music of his childhood in Europe, but then he's also influenced by the blues, and (just to keep it interesting) there's some Jazz and Flamenco thrown in. His work is catchy, nuanced, spicey and contemporary.
Faco is known for his guitar work, both with his driving rhythm guitar and with his precise and compelling fingerpicking he pushes the instrument in service to the song. His vocals are deep and resonant, his lyrics are poetry and his melodies carry you away and set you down in a different place entirely from where you started.
"Window in My Roof" was recorded in Auckland, New Zealand. Faco has performed throughout Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand, in venues from the Casablanca in Vienna to street corners in Holland, to back porches in Mississippi. He lived for 5 years in Paris, where he played with the multi-national band "The Lost Brothers". The other albums were mainly recorded in the Pacific North-West; the latest one "Your Dog Called Love" in Australia, and then in Portland, Oregon, John Morrell (trumpet) and Eric Nelson (accordion) joined in on a couple of songs... Currently he spends time between Sydney, Australia and his family in Portland, Oregon.
All of F.J. Nanic's songs/cd's can be found on CDBABY.COM/ALL/FACO, where you can also find links with ITUNES.COM and other online music stores in case you decide you want to download them. You can simply google F.J. Nanic as well to do so. The latest CD 'Your Dog Called Love' is also on sale with FATBOYEGROUP.COM
Faco...good to have you back in town...! Been doing a duet with Dave Martin-- played the Gotham about a month ago, did a wedding, too...looking forward to a some more gigs...will probably run into you along the way...
