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Mojo JANUARY 2022 - by David Sheppard

SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE WITH PATTI SMITH: THE PERFECT VISION

NY sound-art duo's triptych of Smith-abetted LPs gets the deluxe box set treatment.

Inspired by the spiritual wanderings of canonical French authors Antonin Artaud, Arthur Rimbaud and René Daumal, 2019's The The Peyote Dance and Mummer Love and 2020's Peradam found Soundwalk's Stéphan Crasneanscki and Simone Merli enmeshing psycho-geographic field recordings with ethnic instruments from, respectively, Mexico, Ethiopia and India - locales in which the peripatetic écrivains had sought visionary succour - to frame Smith's poetic solicitations to her literary heroes. Worthy as the albums are, the most compelling music here is among the remixes, not least Brian Eno's recasting of Peradam as a saturnine ambient fugue, laced with ethereal fragments of Smith's voice, and Jim Jarmusch's pulsating Eternity, which effectively relocates the original's tribal pulse to Eraserhead's spectral sound-world. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's re-imagining of The Highest Tower, meanwhile, wraps her namesake's cool incantations in contrastingly mellifluous waves of whooshing synth, conjuring a thing of dreamlike, empyrean beauty.


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