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- Summary: The first of a planned trilogy of albums inspired by French poets (Antonin Artaud for this release) from the experimental collective features Patti Smith and includes a guest appearance from Gael Garcia Bernal.
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- Record Label: Bella Union
- Genre(s): Electronic, Ambient, Alternative/Indie Rock, Experimental Rock, Experimental Ambient
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MojoMay 31, 2019An enfolding, transcendent work of aural theatre tracking Artaud's journey. He would probably have approved. [Jun 2019, p.94]
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Jul 29, 2019It's a well conceived record that rightly celebrates a master—yet with a master of their own on board in the shape of the iconic Smith an homage becomes a living, strange treasure chest of transcendence.
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UncutMay 31, 2019It's surprisingly polite, at times. [Jun 2019, p.34]
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May 31, 2019As a tribute to Antonin Artaud, The Peyote Dance captures the frightening, ambitious and surreal work of an artist who was misunderstood during his life, albeit from a spectator’s perspective.
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Jun 4, 2019Fortunately, one song on the album is unhindered by Artaud’s ramblings: the only track that Smith wrote, “Ivry.” ... It is a moment of clarity on an otherwise foggy and disappointing record, and it leaves you feeling full of light and ease, at least for a moment.
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May 31, 2019There will be people who will, in good faith, love The Peyote Dance, who will be entranced by Smith’s hallucinatory, incantatory improvisations, and by Soundwalk Collective’s austere, arid musical settings. And there will be others--perhaps we’re just shallow; I don’t doubt the possibility--who listen to it and hear only a stream of addled mysticism accompanied by scrapings and whistlings.
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