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Patti Smith: Banga
Tracklist:
01 – Amerigo
02 – April Fool
03 – Fuji-san
04 – This Is The Girl
05 – Banga
06 – Maria
07 – Mosaic
08 – Tarkovsky (The Second Stop Is Jupiter)
09 – Nine
10 – Seneca
11 – Constantine’s Dream
12 – After The Gold Rush
External Review:
"The first half of the album is actually pretty, with Smith crooning sweetly about Amerigo Vespucci while marvelling at the colonialist impulse to baptise on Amerigo. But it gets really good – idolatrously so – from the title track on in, when a simple two-guitar-and-dog-backing soundtracks Smith in sneering punk-seer mode. The way she sings along to the guitar drones, then enunciates "explode" at the end of the song, is worth the price of the album itself."
[ The Guardian ]
Artist Biography
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "Godmother of Punk", her work was a fusion of rock and poetry. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen...
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