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[May 16 2019] : music

Purple Presents: Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith “Ivry” by Stephan Crasneanscki

Soundwalk Collective with PATTI SMITH
IVRY
Directed by STEPHAN CRASNEANSCKI
Editing and visual collage: JENN RUFF

With lyrics written by PATTI SMITH as a farewell to ANTONIN ARTAUD, Ivry is a Rarámuri funeral march and celebration performed on Tarahumara guitars from the valley where ARTAUD wrote “The Peyote Dance”. The footage derives from ARTAUD’s most legendary and charismatic performance in ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc’, which is then confronted with the last images of him in his chair, watching from a window of the psychiatric clinic in Ivry-sur-Seine where he spent the last few years of his life, and died at the foot of his bed, clutching his shoe. These two faces of ARTAUD mirror each other, in the same way, the Tarahumaras wear mirrors on their heads as part of the ‘Matachine’ dance, which in ARTAUD’s vision reflects the ‘true’ reality. Pre-Order Here.

From the album The Peyote Dance, in stores May 31, 2019.
Produced by Soundwalk Collective for Bella Union
Featuring original footage by STEPHAN CRASNEANSCKI, LELIO MOEHR and SYLVIE MARCHAND.
Courtesy, Association Temps Réel, Collectif Gigacircus, France

Lyrics by PATTI SMITH, copyright / © (2019) (PATTI SMITH)
All music produced by Soundwalk Collective in Mexico City and NYC
in collaboration with LEONARDO HEIBLUM and NICOLAS BECKER
with original instruments from the Rarámuri Indians of the Sierra Tarahumara, Mexico

Voice: PATTI SMITH
Traditional Guitars: MARTIN CHÁVEZ RAMÍREZ “Makawi”, JOEL CRUZ CASTELLANOS
Traditional Drums, Chapareke Snare, Chihuahua Bells: LEONARDO HEIBLUM
Foley: NICOLAS BECKER
Recorded at Audioflot Studios in Mexico City and Hobo Sound in New Jersey
Post Production at Electric Lady Studios in New York
Mix and Additional Production by RUSSELL ELEVADO at Electric Garden in New York
Mastering by NOEL SUMMERVILLE, London