SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE with PATTI SMITH have created a new album “PERADAM” to be released September 4th.

Meanwhile, PURPLE has the exclusive release of four videos directed by STEPHAN CRASNEANSCKI within the next months to celebrate this creative musical project.

The sound of Himalayan winds, sacred mantras and water rippling in the holy river Ganges, invite us to PERADAM, the transcendent new album by SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE with PATTI SMITH, featuring ANOUSHKA SHANKAR, TENZIN CHOEGYAL, and CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG. Peradam takes as its entry point RENÉ DAUMAL’s early 1940s novel Mount Analogue: a Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing, in which the French writer, critic and poet mapped a metaphysical journey to “the ultimate symbolic mountain” in search of meaning. In it, Daumal introduced the idea of the “peradam”, a rare, crystalline stone – harbouring profound truths – that is only visible to seekers on a true spiritual path.

All videos directed by STEPHAN CRASNEANSCKI

Editing and Visual Collage: JENN RUFF

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From the album Peradam, in stores September 4th, 2020

Produced by Soundwalk Collective for Bella Union

All music produced by Soundwalk Collective in Rishikesh, Varanasi, Paris and NYC

in collaboration with LEONARDO HEIBLUM

Text written by Patti Smith, copyright / © (2020) (Patti Smith)

Recorded in the Nanda Devi mountain, Rishikesh, Varanasi, Kingdom of Lo (Upper Mustang), Electric Lady Studios in New York, Eastside Sound in New York, Les Studios Saint Germain in Paris, Sakha Studio in Berlin

Mix and additional production: RUSSELL ELEVADO at Electric Garden in New York

Mastering by NOEL SUMMERVILLE, London

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With the kind support of The Analogue Foundation

www.analoguefoundation.com