(TV) Verlaine on "Banga"

[leif joley <leifjoley@hotmail.com>]

Nobody on the list noticed that Patti Smith's new album was released last
Monday? Wary after "Trampin'" and the covers record, I've only listened to it
on Spotify yet; thus I haven't read the liner notes so I don't know if
Verlaine is featured on any other track than the single "April Fool". He may
be, although I'm not sure about it. After repeated listenings, it seems to be
a solid Patti Smith disc, complete with thoughts about sins and Jesus and such
that she's been obsessed with since "Horses". Pretty much has been written
about tracks about Johnny Depp and Amy Winehouse, but more interesting may be
the nods to Russian culture, to authors Bulgakov and Gogol and filmmaker
Tarkovsky. At least for me who's married to a Moscuvite.

Anyway -- the guitar playing on "April Fool" is, at least to my ears, proof
that Verlaine hasn't lost the ability to make a decent effort if he's told to
and paid to. The picking through the song is thoroughly enjoyable. If the
volume nob soloing isn't really taking off and going into orgasm territory,
it's nonetheless classic, trademark Verlaine.

Leif J, Sweden
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