Re: (TV) Verlaine on "Banga"

[postitnote <postitnote@sbcglobal.net>]

You can hear the new song 'Fuju-san' on NPR here:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/05/31/154086849/song-premiere-patti-smith-fuji-san



--- On Thu, 6/7/12, leif joley <leifjoley@hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: leif joley <leifjoley@hotmail.com>
> Subject: (TV) Verlaine on "Banga"
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Thursday, June 7, 2012, 2:55 PM
> 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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