Patti Smith - Banga (2012) [FLAC]

Patti Smith - Banga (2012) [FLAC]

Release Date: June 4, 2012
Duration: 58:34
Genre: Rock
Styles: Alternative, Singer/Songwriter
Codec: FLAC
Bit Rate: ~900 Kbps
Sample Rate: 44,100 Hz
Cover: Front

01 Amerigo
02 Fuji-San
03 April Fool
04 This Is The Girl
05 Banga
06 Maria
07 Tarkovsky (The Second Stop is Jupiter)
08 Mosaic
09 Nine
10 Seneca
11 Constantine's Dream
12 After The Gold Rush

In the eight years since Patti Smith's last studio effort, Trampin', she's toured, assembled art installations, had her photographs collected for global exhibition, and written Just Kids, a National Book Award-winning memoir. On Banga, Smith marries together her various forms of literary expression with rock and pop in an iconic assemblage. Her collaborators are (mostly) familiar: guitarist Lenny Kaye, drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, bassist Tony Shanahan, guitarist Tom Verlaine, her children Jackson and Jessi, and guitarist Jack Petruzzelli. Italian band Casa del Vento and Johnny Depp also appear. The album is saturated with poetry, sung or spoken - sometimes both. Its themes range from a non-didactic reflection on environmental crisis, the dominion of art as man's greatest gift to the divine - as well as its own species - homages, elegies, and love songs, all offered with authority and tenderness. Musically, the album is absent the dynamic, free-form chaos that marks her earlier recordings, but is better for it. Banga is an event; it's not only provocative and expansive lyrically, but abundantly enjoyable musically. As an artist, Smith embodies the highest calling of her vocation: she completely absorbs everything she encounters, then gives it back to the culture in a manner that holistically edifies it.