Friday, September 25, 2020

Soundwalk Collective And Patti Smith's Peradam!

Hi everyone,

This is from a review of this amazing final album in the "Perfect Vision" trilogy:

"'The gateway to the invisible must be visible.' So intones Patti Smith on the third and final journey in sound with Stephan Crasneanscki and Simone Merli, AKA Soundwalk Collective, musical psychogeographers and field recorders whose journey for this evocation of French spiritual-surrealist writer Rene Daumal’s posthumous 1952 cult classic Mount Analog took him to the peak of Nanda Devi in the Himalayas, the former Beatle hangout of Rishikesh, India’s 'spiritual capital' of Varanasi, and Upper Mustang, once known as the Kingdom of Lo, which only admitted its first foreign visitors in 1992."

Patti Smith is one of the coolest artists & women on the planet! Sound Boardwalk are her perfect counterparts. Try this out with me!

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Saturday, September 19, 2020

Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith's Mummer Love!

Hi everyone, Here is the description of this amazing second album in the "Perfect Vision" trilogy:

"For this body of work, Soundwalk Collective journeyed to Africa to explore the intricacies of Arthur Rimbaud’s most obscure period. After leaving France and what he deemed the ‘western stagnation’, Rimbaud found himself in Harar, Ethiopia – an epicenter of Sufism in Africa. Sufi practise focuses on the renunciation of worldly things, the purification of the soul and the mystical contemplation of God’s nature. Sufism is a mystical form of Islam, and its music is about reaching a communal ecstatic state, and once you find yourself there, you are granted access to the unknown. The Soundwalk Collective spent time with the Sufi group of Sheikh Ibrahim to record their music and chants in the shrine with the use of Audio-Technica microphones. “'You obtain connections to other levels of yourself and consciousness,'” Stephan Crasneanscki mentions of the musical process. “'This connection, like poetry, is a universal language.'"

Just lovely. Just so deep and funky and lovely.

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, September 11, 2020

Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith's The Peyote Dance!

Hi everyone,

Here is a summary from Amazon.com of this amazing record:

"The Peyote Dance, by Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith, is the first in a triptych of albums, collectively titled The Perfect Vision. Each take their inspiration from the writings of three emblematic French poets: Antonin Artaud, Arthur Rimbaud and RenĂ© Daumal, and their necessity to travel to different lands to acquire a new vision and perspective on themselves and their artwork. Recorded in the Sierra Tarahumara of Mexico The Peyote Dance retraces Artaud's footsteps. The album's opening, recited by Gael Garcia Bernal, evokes the summer he traveled by train towards the Chihuahua region, and by horse to the Tarahumara mountains with the help of a mestizo guide. One of Artaud's goal was to find a peyote shaman who could help him recover from an opioid addiction. During his stay he encountered the RarĂ¡muri Indians and peyote shamans of Tarahumara. His transcendental experience resulted in the book The Peyote Dance. Back in New York, Patti Smith channeled Artaud's spirit by listening, reading and improvising to the music.The penultimate track on the album is a poem she wrote in homage to Artaud's last hours in a mental asylum in France."

Wow. I will share the next two volumes soon.

PeaceNstarZ,
V