Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith announce second album of the year with new single "Eternity"
Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith have announced their second of three albums Mummer Love, alongside unveiling the lead single "Eternity".
"Eternity" is the first taste of their second collaborative record of the year, and is again inspired by French poet Arthur Rimbaud.
The collaborators travelled to Africa to explore Rimbaud's time in Harar, Ethiopia. They spent time with Sufi group of Sheikh Ibrahim to record their music and chants in the shrine.
According to a press release, Sufism is "a mystical form of Islam, and its music is about reaching a communal ecstatic state."
Stephan Crasneanscki of Soundwalk Collective said of the process, "You obtain connections to other levels of yourself and consciousness. This connection, like poetry, is a universal language. A language of the soul, for the soul."
Mummer Love will follow on from the first of three records, The Peyote Dance, which was inspired by French author Antonin Artaud.
Tracklist:
- Aw Abadir
- La Maison de Rimbaud
- Eternity
- Song Of The Highest Tower
- Mummer Love
- Farewell
- Bad Blood
- Sensation
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