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Patti Smith - The Coral Sea
| Avclub | | Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe shared a room at the Chelsea Hotel as they began to make names for themselves in their respective fields. They made an unlikely pair, if only because Smith's music reveled in finding poetry in chaos, where Mapplethorpe's photography often imposed order on potentially chaotic subjects, including Smith herself. Their connection, whatever its foundation, was undeniable, and eight years after Mapplethorpe's death from AIDS at the age of 42, Smith published The Coral Sea, a long poem recasting her friend's life and death in Smith's unmistakable Beat-inspired cadences....full text |
| | Sputnikmusic | | In my recent feature on My Bloody Valentine's reunion shows (found here), I touched upon the notion of just how much the process of canonization can change people's perceptions. Handy, then, that just two weeks later an album appears that proves my point; and one involving Kevin Shields, no less. Numerous reviews of this live album (recorded over two nights at the Royal Festival Hall, one is 2005 and one in 2006) have already appeared both in print and online, and yet I haven't seen one that has addressed the most obvious point here. It's Patti Smith. It's Kevin Shields. Isn't the very idea that these two are collaborating fundamentally weird to anybody else?...full text |
| | Popmatters | Don’t get too carried away by the billing, my bloody valentines: The Coral Sea is most definitely a Patti Smith record. Comprising two separate live performances from London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, this summer’s CD release offers listeners and fans a double dose of Smith’s poetic elegy to the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
As a work of art it’s a hard piece to classify (is it poetry or prose?), but whatever it is, it’s certainly beautiful. The fluidity of the poet’s language coupled with her measured delivery comes from Smith’s undeniable gift for balance. She has, too, a musician’s sense for presentation. The choice to include both sets from the QEH shows seems to reflect both of these characteristics. Each disc represents a complete performance of The Coral Sea, but there is a distinct difference in mood between the two. Disc one, recorded in the summer of 2005, is far more restrained, for instance, than disc two’s performance from the fall of 2006....full text |
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