Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Let me introduce you to… Patti Smith
Am hotarat sa aranjez un pic muzica de pe hardisk, asa ca pentru azi m-am oprit la Patti Smith :). Si nu, alegerea pentru azi nu este “Because The Night” pentru ca probabil o stie toata lumea, ci un album ceva mai vechi pe care nici eu nu l-am mai ascultat de ceva vreme, “Horses” (1975). Enjoy!
“Punk rock’s poet laureate, Patti Smith ranks among the most influential female rock & rollers of all time. Ambitious, unconventional, and challenging, Smith’s music was hailed as the most exciting fusion of rock and poetry since Bob Dylan’s heyday. If that hybrid remained distinctly uncommercial for much of her career, it wasn’t a statement against accessibility so much as the simple fact that Smith followed her own muse wherever it took her — from structured rock songs to free-form experimentalism, or even completely out of music at times. Her most avant-garde outings drew a sense of improvisation and interplay from free jazz, though they remained firmly rooted in noisy, primitive three-chord rock & roll. She was a powerful concert presence, singing and chanting her lyrics in an untrained but expressive voice, whirling around the stage like an ecstatic shaman delivering incantations. A regular at CBGB’s during the early days of New York punk, she was the first artist of the bunch to land a record deal and release an album, even beating the Ramones to the punch…” (read the rest of the article on allmusic.com).