Patti Smith - Banga (2012) [FLAC]

  Release Date: June 4, 2012
  Duration: 58:34
  Genre: Rock
  Styles: Alternative, Singer/Songwriter
  Codec: FLAC
  Bit Rate: ~900 Kbps
  Sample Rate: 44,100 Hz
  Cover: Front

  01 Amerigo 
  02 Fuji-San
  03 April Fool 
  04 This Is The Girl
  05 Banga 
  06 Maria
  07 Tarkovsky (The Second Stop is Jupiter) 
  08 Mosaic 
  09 Nine 
  10 Seneca 
  11 Constantine's Dream 
  12 After The Gold Rush 

In the eight years since Patti Smith's last studio effort, Trampin', she's toured, assembled art installations, had her photographs collected for global exhibition, and written Just Kids, a National Book Award-winning memoir. On Banga, Smith marries together her various forms of literary expression with rock and pop in an iconic assemblage. Her collaborators are (mostly) familiar: guitarist Lenny Kaye, drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, bassist Tony Shanahan, guitarist Tom Verlaine, her children Jackson and Jessi, and guitarist Jack Petruzzelli. Italian band Casa del Vento and Johnny Depp also appear. The album is saturated with poetry, sung or spoken - sometimes both. Its themes range from a non-didactic reflection on environmental crisis, the dominion of art as man's greatest gift to the divine - as well as its own species - homages, elegies, and love songs, all offered with authority and tenderness. Musically, the album is absent the dynamic, free-form chaos that marks her earlier recordings, but is better for it.  Banga is an event; it's not only provocative and expansive lyrically, but abundantly enjoyable musically. As an artist, Smith embodies the highest calling of her vocation: she completely absorbs everything she encounters, then gives it back to the culture in a manner that holistically edifies it.