07年のカヴァー作「Twelve」を除くと8年振り、パティ・スミス10作目のオリジナル・アルバム。
制作は08年頃から行なっていたそうだが、彼女を初期から支えた写真家、故ロバート・メイプルソープとの関係を綴った随筆本「
Just Kids」の執筆や写真家としての活動と重なったことにより制作は長期に分散したようだ。
一応「混沌を増す世界と自らの夢」をテーマとしているが、彼女が強い興味を示す文学・絵画の芸術作品から、逝去した諸人物、
日本の3.11等の自然災害といった外的要因まで様々なものに着想を得た12曲に強い繋がりはなく、近年の彼女の心象をそのま
ま音へと映したスケッチ集の様な趣もある。タイトル題の「Banga」はウクライナの小説家ミハイル・ブルガーコフの作品「巨匠とマ
ルガリータ」中に登場する犬の名から来ている。
演奏陣はレニー・ケイ、ジェイ・ディー・ドハーティ等初期からの気心知れた面子が中心、そこにSSWトム・ヴァーレインやパティの
子供達等を加え安定感ある演奏を展開。俳優としても活躍するジョニー・デップの参加曲を含む(「Banga」にドラム・ギターで参加。
デップが作成したデモ音源に肉付けしたという)のも売りの一つだろう。
全体の印象としてはロック特有の攻撃性は控え目、カントリーやラテン風味等複数の要素を程良く混ぜた風情の楽曲は、派手さは
ないがまろやかで聴き易い。簡素な音創りの中でパティの歌と語りの味わいを浮び上がらせた仕上がりだ。
語りと歌を自由に往来するパティのアルトボイスは、いつの間にか歌詞を追うのを忘れつい声そのものに聴き入ってしまう。表層は
若い頃の荒ぶる激しさこそ潜めたものの、極めて冷静に発せられる言葉には単なる癒しでない強い意思が宿り深い余韻を残す。
彼女の冷静沈着な表情は先頃逝去した歌手エイミー・ワインハウスへ捧げた追悼歌「This Is the Girl」でさえ崩れることはないが、
その淡々とした歌い口は逆に感傷を誘う。3.11を経た日本人に捧げる「Fuji-San」の壮大な歌は何処か神々しさを感じさせる。
パティの歌以上に前へ出ることを注意深く避けながらも、言葉の間や空気感を絶妙に補完するバンド・サウンドの雄弁さにも注目。
「Mosaic」でマンドリンの音色が異国的な空気を、10分に渡る大曲「Constantine's Dream」ではイタリアの演奏集団Casa del Ven
toを迎えバイオリンやバンドネオンの音色がデカダンな雰囲気を演出したりと、曲毎に構成を組み換え丁寧に音を編み上げる。
焦りを微塵も見せないパティの歌と語りを堪能させる一作、瞑想するように心静かに聴き入りたい逸品である。
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曲目リスト
1 | Amerigo |
2 | April Fool |
3 | Fuji |
4 | This Is The Girl |
5 | Banga |
6 | Maria |
7 | Mosaic |
8 | Tarkovsky (The Second Stop Is Jupiter) |
9 | Nine |
10 | Seneca |
11 | Constantine's Dream |
12 | After The Gold Rush |
商品の説明
The New Studio Album BANGA includes "April Fool" featuring Tom Verlaine. This highly-anticipated album marks Patti Smiths first collection of original material since 2004s critically-acclaimed TRAMPIN. Inspired by Smiths unique dreams and observations, BANGAS poetic lyrics are a reflection of our complex world - a world that is rife with chaos and beauty.
登録情報
- 製品サイズ : 14.3 x 12.5 x 0.99 cm; 167.83 g
- メーカー : COLUM
- EAN : 0886972221724
- 商品モデル番号 : 25195820
- オリジナル盤発売日 : 2012
- レーベル : COLUM
- ASIN : B007PVHBHC
- 原産国 : アメリカ合衆国
- ディスク枚数 : 1
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トップレビュー
上位レビュー、対象国: 日本
レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
2012年6月10日に日本でレビュー済み
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2014年7月15日に日本でレビュー済み
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重くソリッドでタイトなリズムセクション、シンプルな構成でグルーブ感満喫。
パティスミスはやはり只者ではない風格すら感じます。
パティスミスはやはり只者ではない風格すら感じます。
2013年3月19日に日本でレビュー済み
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あいかわらず、ブレないPatti。 この人のこの声、音楽はいつ聴いてもドキドキします。
2013年2月24日に日本でレビュー済み
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パティーも東日本大震災で様々なことを考えたようです。
収録曲の「Fujisan」は日本人としては心揺さぶられる曲だと思います。
日本来日ツアーでは和太鼓とコラボしていました。思わず鳥肌が立ちました。
アルバム全体としては少し落ち着いていますが、タイトル曲の「Banga」はパティーらしい
ロックナンバーで、「そうそうこれこれ」とうなずく作品です。
収録曲の「Fujisan」は日本人としては心揺さぶられる曲だと思います。
日本来日ツアーでは和太鼓とコラボしていました。思わず鳥肌が立ちました。
アルバム全体としては少し落ち着いていますが、タイトル曲の「Banga」はパティーらしい
ロックナンバーで、「そうそうこれこれ」とうなずく作品です。
2013年1月26日に日本でレビュー済み
1月24日のオーチャードホールでのLIVEへ行ってきました。
この『Banga』からのナンバーもたくさんやりました。
和太鼓とのコラボ「Fuji-san」は超迫力!
パティも66歳と思えないパワーと声量(パティって,こんなに歌が上手か
ったんだ〜),曲に合わせて軽やかにダンスする姿は,とってもチャーミン
グ&セクシーでした。
ますます『Banga』が好きになり,ヘヴィーローテーションで聴きまくって
おります!
ボクのような英語の理解力が無い方は日本盤をお勧めしますが,歌詞の内
容が分からなくても,メロディ&アレンジの良さ,パティのヴォーカル,
きっちりとまとまった演奏から,BGMとしても十分に満足できる内容だ
と思います。
この『Banga』からのナンバーもたくさんやりました。
和太鼓とのコラボ「Fuji-san」は超迫力!
パティも66歳と思えないパワーと声量(パティって,こんなに歌が上手か
ったんだ〜),曲に合わせて軽やかにダンスする姿は,とってもチャーミン
グ&セクシーでした。
ますます『Banga』が好きになり,ヘヴィーローテーションで聴きまくって
おります!
ボクのような英語の理解力が無い方は日本盤をお勧めしますが,歌詞の内
容が分からなくても,メロディ&アレンジの良さ,パティのヴォーカル,
きっちりとまとまった演奏から,BGMとしても十分に満足できる内容だ
と思います。
2012年7月5日に日本でレビュー済み
2004年にリリースした『Trampin』以来8年ぶりのオリジナルアルバム
収録曲にある2曲目「Fuji-san」は、東日本大震災で被害を受けた日本への復興の気持ちを歌った曲らしいです。
他にも、あのジョニー・デップのために書いた楽曲#9「Nine」や(ジョニー・デップの誕生日が6月9日ということから)
昨年急逝したAmy Winehouseのために書いた#4「This is the Girl」といったナンバーも収録。
2007年にリリースされたカバー・アルバム『トゥウェルヴ』も素晴らしかったが、
全曲から感じる力強さ、優しさ、存在感に圧倒されました。
収録曲にある2曲目「Fuji-san」は、東日本大震災で被害を受けた日本への復興の気持ちを歌った曲らしいです。
他にも、あのジョニー・デップのために書いた楽曲#9「Nine」や(ジョニー・デップの誕生日が6月9日ということから)
昨年急逝したAmy Winehouseのために書いた#4「This is the Girl」といったナンバーも収録。
2007年にリリースされたカバー・アルバム『トゥウェルヴ』も素晴らしかったが、
全曲から感じる力強さ、優しさ、存在感に圧倒されました。
2013年3月21日に日本でレビュー済み
2曲目のエイプリルフール、若返ってんじゃん、って思わせます。100歳位までは生きそうだな〜、うん、その位は生きて欲しい、そしてあと5枚くらいはアルバムだしてくれー、まだまだ上がれるはずだ!
しっかしこんな凄いアルバム作っちゃって次はどんななっちゃうんだろう、ちと人間技超えてるわ。
晴れた日に車に乗って聴くと最高な気分になれる。
しっかしこんな凄いアルバム作っちゃって次はどんななっちゃうんだろう、ちと人間技超えてるわ。
晴れた日に車に乗って聴くと最高な気分になれる。
2013年7月31日に日本でレビュー済み
Amazonで購入
伝えたいこと を しっかり もっている方 だ と 実感しました。だから 魅力的だし 歌い続けていられるのかも・・・ 実は 音楽 の 良し悪しは わからない・・・ patti の チャンテイング みたいな 歌 に からむ ギター は 素敵 だなー と 思いました。
他の国からのトップレビュー
Jan
5つ星のうち5.0
Our Patti.
2019年12月12日にスペインでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
En moments de baixada emocional escoltar aquesta producció de la sweet Patti ajuds molt a recuperar-se. Gran.
Jan
2019年12月12日にスペインでレビュー済み
このレビューの画像
Colin MacDonald
5つ星のうち5.0
Few artists grow and evolve into even greater artists, ...
2016年2月4日にカナダでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Few artists grow and evolve into even greater artists, Patti Smith is one of those who have done so. This album blew me away , the opening track Amerigo evokes such a strong feeling of time and place. I recently saw her in concert in Portland ,she and her band are unbelievable live , a true artist with so much to offer.
Katherine McCarthy
5つ星のうち5.0
Welcome Back, Old Friend
2012年6月9日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
"We were going to see the world." There was never a doubt in my mind about the destination. I knew she was going there, and that I was going with her.
My inclination when hearing this latest work was to say "Welcome back, old friend." My feeling about Patti is whenever she turns up it's like a much-loved friend from high school. We need to get a cup of coffee and catch up at the nearest bistro (not Starbucks.)
I first saw Patti on TV on a Sunday night on WWOR channel 9 in the early 1970's referring to subway graffiti as new age Jackson Pollack. It was a black & white documentary of 3 artists speaking on New York City. I noted, "keep on eye on this girl."
Buy the deluxe edition if you can afford it for no other reason than the hardcovered booklet is a beautiful work of art - photographs, Patti's thoughts and process of what went into creating and recording the music, the lyrics. There's no need on my part to try to summarize or interpret. She's done all the heavy lifting. There are moments of the mystical - especially the discovery of the image of "Dream of Constantine." Buy the deluxe edition because it's a BOOK. Kindle will never replace the feeling of turning a page, looking at the images, running your fingers across the page for the first time feeling like silk, opening the book and cracking the spine. It's a gift. The lyrics - poems, really - and the process unfolding are what attracted me to Patti in the first place.
I'm reminded of a moment back in the beginning. I was sitting on the floor of the Gotham Book Mart browsing through Joris Huysman's "Las Bas" first edition. It was pissing down rain. Gotham would never throw you out, even if it was obvious you had no money.
At the front was a small tome, "Seventh Heaven" with Patti's scrawl on front. I bought that instead. I still have it - binding undone, signature fading, much loved and much read. Like "Witt," "Ha Ha Houdini," "Babel." (I got the Huysmans later when I cashed my pay check from E.J. Korvette's down the street where I was Christmas help.) Gotham Book Mart is long gone. Apparently Patti worked there at one point. They were always my "go-to" place for new Patti stuff. Their logo on a small carved wooden sign: "Wise men fish here." (Long live independent book shops!)
Now what about the music? Well, I've now been living with it for a week. It's not left my CD player or iPod. It's been playing non-stop. It's so atmospheric that no one song jumps out. It's a dream scape. It's so intuitive I can't stop listening. It's nearly a concept album - and I'm old enough to remember albums - where you put the needle down on the groove and let it engulf you. "Banga" sinks into your muscles, sinews, spinal column. It's evocative. Like opium.
Patti's music took a turn towards the personal around "Dream of Life," the album recorded in partnership with her late husband Fred "Sonic" Smith. (When the heck is the R&R Hall of Fame going to induct the MC5? Storm the bastille of rock commercialism! The people have the power!) Her song to her Godson, "Seneca," recalls her lullaby to her own son Jackson on "Dream of Life."
With "Gone Again" Patti dealt with the deaths of her husband, her brother, Richard Sohl, and even Kurt Cobain. She needed to write it out, put it out there. There's something akin with "Banga." Cursory reviews have all mentioned deaths and dirges but it's never quite that simple with Patti. She feels deeply, and she shares deeply. Many of the songs do reference loss and love. (Isn't it about time that Maria Schneider got a proper send off?)
Hearing Patti's voice again with new songs transports me back to Max's Kansas City 1974. She'd added a piano player. (Now, that was a good thing, 'cause Patti couldn't sing and Lenny couldn't play, but Richard Sohl COULD. He had an ability to follow her and Lenny and fill in around them as they improvised transporting word scorcery into songs.) I had a little reel-to-reel tape recorder and recorded those sets at Max's. Cassettes hadn't been invented yet. I played those reel-to-reel tapes every morning when I got up until "Horses" came out. My sister, who shared our bedroom, said I ruined her life with it. I wish I still had them. What history! Starting at the beginning, even the Bible starts there, Patti signaled that she was always going to be a work in progress. Many of those classic songs on "Horses" once had completely different lyrics - like "Birdland" which began with part of one of her poems "Bar stools were made for woman like this." I noted: "Keep an eye on this girl."
I sold all my college textbooks. I went to Max's every night she and Television (the opening act with Richard Hell still in the band) for the full week's tenure. There were so few people there, less than I could count on all my fingers and toes, that Max's would let us stay for the late show without paying the cover fee, as long as we ordered the two drink minimum. During "Land" Patti reached down and took a swig of my Heinekin. (If only she knew how much that cost me.)
My relationship with Patti and the band has withstood every way station and change. I saw the band come together bit by bit - first with Jay Dee Dougherty added on the drums. Then Ivan Kral. Nothing will ever come close to "Horses" but then again, nothing should. The genie came out of the bottle. There was no going back. Any other artist might have been intimidated by such a brilliant debut. Rock history is littered with great first albums never to be repeated. From day one, Patti exuded brazen confidence. She simply creates - in any medium.
Another motif running through "Banga" is adventure, explorers, going across oceans, boundaries, time and the planets themselves. I was at the Academy of Music when she announced she wasn't going to tour again "until Ivan Kral gets his citizenship." I thought it was just a plug for the song on "Wave" but she disappeared to marry, raise children, live a life. "Banga" is Patti: a wife, a mother, a friend, now Medicare-eligible. In the course of living, creating, evolving, she is timeless and relevant.
"Banga" may be my favorite song on the album. I love the dog howls. I love dogs. My sister just rescued a labrabull from a shelter. Loyalty and love are themes in Patti's work. They are what define us as humans, who are, after all, like dogs, pack animals. Patti stuck with Lenny after every long-forgotten local punk rock band in NYC passed on him as a guitarist. Lenny has turned into quite the musical collaborator, hasn't he? Each of these songs developed almost telepathically - music written separately, independently, yet somehow the perfect foils for Patti's lyrics.
"Banga" is Patti at her best - great poetry. Evocative music. Personal lyrics. She's an artist to her very core. There's been a 30 year progression of incorporating Middle Eastern music into 3-chord rock and roll. There's an immersion of non-traditional rock instruments. "Mosaic" is hallucinatory. "Constantine's Dream" is ten-minute journey. Reviews that reference Patti's with punk music may actually miss the whole point. She, and the band, were never punk rock. They once said, "we are the last of the hippies." And they are.
You'd have to go waaaaayyy back to find anything that approaches "Banga" - Jim Morrison and the Doors, Arthur Lee and Love, Lou Reed and the Velvets, Grace Slick paraphrasing James Joyce in "rejoyce," the Girl Groups of the Shangrilas and Ronettes. Patti always had a bent towards great pop. "This is the Girl" raises the specter of "We Three," and "Kimberly." The spoken-word section is pure soul music. Back in the day Patti would sometimes do a winsome version of the old Motown hit "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game." The same girl who covered "Partime Paradise" and danced to "The 81" with Lenny at Bleecker Bob's still lives.
A simple acoustic version of Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" slapped me awake from this audio dream. It's spartan, beautiful, and a fitting end with a children's chorus. Ending the deluxe version of the album is a bonus single "Just Kids." It's a song version paraphrasing her book of the same name. I noted: "keep an eye on this girl."
Funny thing. Kinda like "6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon." Patti and I both wrote reviews for Creem back in the day. Now, she's a Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Laureate for America. I write reviews on Amazon. But neither of us ever stopped writing.
My inclination when hearing this latest work was to say "Welcome back, old friend." My feeling about Patti is whenever she turns up it's like a much-loved friend from high school. We need to get a cup of coffee and catch up at the nearest bistro (not Starbucks.)
I first saw Patti on TV on a Sunday night on WWOR channel 9 in the early 1970's referring to subway graffiti as new age Jackson Pollack. It was a black & white documentary of 3 artists speaking on New York City. I noted, "keep on eye on this girl."
Buy the deluxe edition if you can afford it for no other reason than the hardcovered booklet is a beautiful work of art - photographs, Patti's thoughts and process of what went into creating and recording the music, the lyrics. There's no need on my part to try to summarize or interpret. She's done all the heavy lifting. There are moments of the mystical - especially the discovery of the image of "Dream of Constantine." Buy the deluxe edition because it's a BOOK. Kindle will never replace the feeling of turning a page, looking at the images, running your fingers across the page for the first time feeling like silk, opening the book and cracking the spine. It's a gift. The lyrics - poems, really - and the process unfolding are what attracted me to Patti in the first place.
I'm reminded of a moment back in the beginning. I was sitting on the floor of the Gotham Book Mart browsing through Joris Huysman's "Las Bas" first edition. It was pissing down rain. Gotham would never throw you out, even if it was obvious you had no money.
At the front was a small tome, "Seventh Heaven" with Patti's scrawl on front. I bought that instead. I still have it - binding undone, signature fading, much loved and much read. Like "Witt," "Ha Ha Houdini," "Babel." (I got the Huysmans later when I cashed my pay check from E.J. Korvette's down the street where I was Christmas help.) Gotham Book Mart is long gone. Apparently Patti worked there at one point. They were always my "go-to" place for new Patti stuff. Their logo on a small carved wooden sign: "Wise men fish here." (Long live independent book shops!)
Now what about the music? Well, I've now been living with it for a week. It's not left my CD player or iPod. It's been playing non-stop. It's so atmospheric that no one song jumps out. It's a dream scape. It's so intuitive I can't stop listening. It's nearly a concept album - and I'm old enough to remember albums - where you put the needle down on the groove and let it engulf you. "Banga" sinks into your muscles, sinews, spinal column. It's evocative. Like opium.
Patti's music took a turn towards the personal around "Dream of Life," the album recorded in partnership with her late husband Fred "Sonic" Smith. (When the heck is the R&R Hall of Fame going to induct the MC5? Storm the bastille of rock commercialism! The people have the power!) Her song to her Godson, "Seneca," recalls her lullaby to her own son Jackson on "Dream of Life."
With "Gone Again" Patti dealt with the deaths of her husband, her brother, Richard Sohl, and even Kurt Cobain. She needed to write it out, put it out there. There's something akin with "Banga." Cursory reviews have all mentioned deaths and dirges but it's never quite that simple with Patti. She feels deeply, and she shares deeply. Many of the songs do reference loss and love. (Isn't it about time that Maria Schneider got a proper send off?)
Hearing Patti's voice again with new songs transports me back to Max's Kansas City 1974. She'd added a piano player. (Now, that was a good thing, 'cause Patti couldn't sing and Lenny couldn't play, but Richard Sohl COULD. He had an ability to follow her and Lenny and fill in around them as they improvised transporting word scorcery into songs.) I had a little reel-to-reel tape recorder and recorded those sets at Max's. Cassettes hadn't been invented yet. I played those reel-to-reel tapes every morning when I got up until "Horses" came out. My sister, who shared our bedroom, said I ruined her life with it. I wish I still had them. What history! Starting at the beginning, even the Bible starts there, Patti signaled that she was always going to be a work in progress. Many of those classic songs on "Horses" once had completely different lyrics - like "Birdland" which began with part of one of her poems "Bar stools were made for woman like this." I noted: "Keep an eye on this girl."
I sold all my college textbooks. I went to Max's every night she and Television (the opening act with Richard Hell still in the band) for the full week's tenure. There were so few people there, less than I could count on all my fingers and toes, that Max's would let us stay for the late show without paying the cover fee, as long as we ordered the two drink minimum. During "Land" Patti reached down and took a swig of my Heinekin. (If only she knew how much that cost me.)
My relationship with Patti and the band has withstood every way station and change. I saw the band come together bit by bit - first with Jay Dee Dougherty added on the drums. Then Ivan Kral. Nothing will ever come close to "Horses" but then again, nothing should. The genie came out of the bottle. There was no going back. Any other artist might have been intimidated by such a brilliant debut. Rock history is littered with great first albums never to be repeated. From day one, Patti exuded brazen confidence. She simply creates - in any medium.
Another motif running through "Banga" is adventure, explorers, going across oceans, boundaries, time and the planets themselves. I was at the Academy of Music when she announced she wasn't going to tour again "until Ivan Kral gets his citizenship." I thought it was just a plug for the song on "Wave" but she disappeared to marry, raise children, live a life. "Banga" is Patti: a wife, a mother, a friend, now Medicare-eligible. In the course of living, creating, evolving, she is timeless and relevant.
"Banga" may be my favorite song on the album. I love the dog howls. I love dogs. My sister just rescued a labrabull from a shelter. Loyalty and love are themes in Patti's work. They are what define us as humans, who are, after all, like dogs, pack animals. Patti stuck with Lenny after every long-forgotten local punk rock band in NYC passed on him as a guitarist. Lenny has turned into quite the musical collaborator, hasn't he? Each of these songs developed almost telepathically - music written separately, independently, yet somehow the perfect foils for Patti's lyrics.
"Banga" is Patti at her best - great poetry. Evocative music. Personal lyrics. She's an artist to her very core. There's been a 30 year progression of incorporating Middle Eastern music into 3-chord rock and roll. There's an immersion of non-traditional rock instruments. "Mosaic" is hallucinatory. "Constantine's Dream" is ten-minute journey. Reviews that reference Patti's with punk music may actually miss the whole point. She, and the band, were never punk rock. They once said, "we are the last of the hippies." And they are.
You'd have to go waaaaayyy back to find anything that approaches "Banga" - Jim Morrison and the Doors, Arthur Lee and Love, Lou Reed and the Velvets, Grace Slick paraphrasing James Joyce in "rejoyce," the Girl Groups of the Shangrilas and Ronettes. Patti always had a bent towards great pop. "This is the Girl" raises the specter of "We Three," and "Kimberly." The spoken-word section is pure soul music. Back in the day Patti would sometimes do a winsome version of the old Motown hit "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game." The same girl who covered "Partime Paradise" and danced to "The 81" with Lenny at Bleecker Bob's still lives.
A simple acoustic version of Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" slapped me awake from this audio dream. It's spartan, beautiful, and a fitting end with a children's chorus. Ending the deluxe version of the album is a bonus single "Just Kids." It's a song version paraphrasing her book of the same name. I noted: "keep an eye on this girl."
Funny thing. Kinda like "6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon." Patti and I both wrote reviews for Creem back in the day. Now, she's a Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Laureate for America. I write reviews on Amazon. But neither of us ever stopped writing.
Rocker
5つ星のうち5.0
jeden Cent wert....
2012年12月17日にドイツでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Für diese Platte habe ich genau so viel hingeblättert, wie für die ersten 8 Alben von Patti Smith auf CD zusammen. Dass dieser Ausverkauf irgendwie ungerechtfertigt ist, wenn man es in Beziehung zu dem setzt was man dafür bekommt, empfinde ich fast als peinlich und ich schäme mich auch ein wenig dafür.
Banga ist nun erst das 11. Album von Patti Smith in 38 Jahren seit 1974 ihre erste Platte erschien. Eine beispiellose Karriere für eine Sängerin folgte in einer von Männern dominierten Musikwelt. Nach dem kometenhaften Aufstieg kamen auch die unweigerlichen Abstürze, verstörende Auftritte und private Tragödien. So entstanden immer wieder große zeitliche Abstände zwischen den Veröffentlichungen von Patti Smith.
Die LP Banga erschien mit großer Verspätung im Vergleich zur CD und als ich diese Platte bekam, da waren die meisten Rezensionen längst durch. Ich habe die Platte angehört und war danach zuerst mäßig begeistert. Aber die Scheiben drehen sich immer wieder auf meinem Dreher und im Laufe der Zeit ist die LP ein guter Freund geworden.
Ich finde, Banga ist eines der abwechslungreichsten Alben von Patti Smith überhaupt. Beim CD Kauf der alten Platten stand für mich eigentlich mehr das historische Interesse im Vordergrund. Obwohl viele Musiker, die ich in den 90ern gehört habe, immer wieder Patti Smith als Vorbild nannten, blieb es zunächst beim Vorsatz.
Musikalisch beginnt Banga recht flott. Die Single April Fool klingt sogar ziemlich poppig. Fuji-san ist dann ein waschechter Rocksong. Aber so bleibt es nicht. Ab Seite 2 wird es ruhiger und nachdenklicher, obwohl auch die schnelleren Songs inhaltlich alles andere als belanglos sind.
Geschrieben wurden die Songs zum großem Teil auf einer Reise mit der Costa Concordia. Als die Platte heraus kam, lag dieses Schiff bereits mit 30 Grad Schlagseite halb abgesoffen auf Felsen gesetzt in der Adria auf Grund und markiert eines der skandalösesten Kapitel moderner Kreuzfahrttouristik.
Dazwischen lagen die Aufnahmesessions in den Electric Lady Studios in New York. Thematisch bewegt sich Patti Smith zwischen 15. Jahrhundert und Gegenwart. Aktuelle Ereignisse wie die Katastrophe von Fukushima fließen ebenso in das Songwriting ein, wie literarische Verweise zu den russischen Schriftstellern Nikolai Gogol und Michail Bolgakow. Desweiteren singt Smith einen Geburtagssong für Johnny Depp und Erinnerungen an die kurz nacheinander verstorbenen Maria Schneider und Amy Winehouse finden sich auf dieser Platte ebenfalls.
Auch wenn ich einige Zeit gebraucht habe, um es zu kapieren:
Banga ist eine große Platte geworden, die mit künstlerischer Tragweite aufwarten kann und die mit außergewöhnlichem Engagement und viel Inspriration entstanden sein muss. Patti Smiths Gesang hörte sich für mich noch nie so ausgeglichen und kraftvoll zugleich an.
Die Vinylscheiben sind in dem Zustand, den man für den gewissen Mehrpreis gegenüber der CD auch erwartet. Die Aufnahme ist klar und transparent und es macht ungeheuren Spaß der Platte vom Hörplatz aus beim Abspielen zuzusehen.
Banga ist nun erst das 11. Album von Patti Smith in 38 Jahren seit 1974 ihre erste Platte erschien. Eine beispiellose Karriere für eine Sängerin folgte in einer von Männern dominierten Musikwelt. Nach dem kometenhaften Aufstieg kamen auch die unweigerlichen Abstürze, verstörende Auftritte und private Tragödien. So entstanden immer wieder große zeitliche Abstände zwischen den Veröffentlichungen von Patti Smith.
Die LP Banga erschien mit großer Verspätung im Vergleich zur CD und als ich diese Platte bekam, da waren die meisten Rezensionen längst durch. Ich habe die Platte angehört und war danach zuerst mäßig begeistert. Aber die Scheiben drehen sich immer wieder auf meinem Dreher und im Laufe der Zeit ist die LP ein guter Freund geworden.
Ich finde, Banga ist eines der abwechslungreichsten Alben von Patti Smith überhaupt. Beim CD Kauf der alten Platten stand für mich eigentlich mehr das historische Interesse im Vordergrund. Obwohl viele Musiker, die ich in den 90ern gehört habe, immer wieder Patti Smith als Vorbild nannten, blieb es zunächst beim Vorsatz.
Musikalisch beginnt Banga recht flott. Die Single April Fool klingt sogar ziemlich poppig. Fuji-san ist dann ein waschechter Rocksong. Aber so bleibt es nicht. Ab Seite 2 wird es ruhiger und nachdenklicher, obwohl auch die schnelleren Songs inhaltlich alles andere als belanglos sind.
Geschrieben wurden die Songs zum großem Teil auf einer Reise mit der Costa Concordia. Als die Platte heraus kam, lag dieses Schiff bereits mit 30 Grad Schlagseite halb abgesoffen auf Felsen gesetzt in der Adria auf Grund und markiert eines der skandalösesten Kapitel moderner Kreuzfahrttouristik.
Dazwischen lagen die Aufnahmesessions in den Electric Lady Studios in New York. Thematisch bewegt sich Patti Smith zwischen 15. Jahrhundert und Gegenwart. Aktuelle Ereignisse wie die Katastrophe von Fukushima fließen ebenso in das Songwriting ein, wie literarische Verweise zu den russischen Schriftstellern Nikolai Gogol und Michail Bolgakow. Desweiteren singt Smith einen Geburtagssong für Johnny Depp und Erinnerungen an die kurz nacheinander verstorbenen Maria Schneider und Amy Winehouse finden sich auf dieser Platte ebenfalls.
Auch wenn ich einige Zeit gebraucht habe, um es zu kapieren:
Banga ist eine große Platte geworden, die mit künstlerischer Tragweite aufwarten kann und die mit außergewöhnlichem Engagement und viel Inspriration entstanden sein muss. Patti Smiths Gesang hörte sich für mich noch nie so ausgeglichen und kraftvoll zugleich an.
Die Vinylscheiben sind in dem Zustand, den man für den gewissen Mehrpreis gegenüber der CD auch erwartet. Die Aufnahme ist klar und transparent und es macht ungeheuren Spaß der Platte vom Hörplatz aus beim Abspielen zuzusehen.
Nicholas B. Gibbs
5つ星のうち5.0
BANGA!
2012年6月26日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
What a superb record! What an artist! I've had it for over a week now and I've had to start to ration its rotation as I don't want to get sick of it. The record is so full of interesting places and flavours that I want to savour and discover slowly. And what a band she has with her on this mission! An incredible team of collaborators. Whether you know much about Patti Smith or not, Banga reminds the world of what a superb artist she is. I hate to use cliches like 'carrying the torch' and 'they don't make them like this anymore', but there is a sense that she's bringing qualities from another era. A time when people used to read books perhaps, when music could change things and was something that people were serious about. When you had to actually WORK for something, instead of buying it on your credit card. Let's just say we're damn lucky to have artists of her integrity and calibre around. The world is a much more 'grounded' and honest place with Patti Smith in it.
I'd also recommend her previous album 'Trampin', which I've recently got into as a result of Banga. What a purple patch she'e enjoying at the moment! Good on you Patti.
I'd also recommend her previous album 'Trampin', which I've recently got into as a result of Banga. What a purple patch she'e enjoying at the moment! Good on you Patti.