On 25th November Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith released The Perfect Vision deluxe box set via Bella Union. The box set features three acclaimed albums – The Peyote Dance, Mummer Love and Peradam – alongside a remix album. To mark the box set release an entrancing remix of the track ‘Peradam‘ by composer and producer Brian Eno has also been released as a single.
Between 2019 and 2021, Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith collaborated on a triptych of albums which took their inspiration from the writings of three emblematic French poets: Antonin Artaud, Arthur Rimbaud and Reneì Daumal. Central to the work was the poets’ necessity to travel to different lands to acquire a new vision and perspective on themselves and their art. Recorded in the Sierra Tarahumara of Mexico (The Peyote Dance), the Abyssinian valley of Ethiopia (Mummer Love), and the Himalayan Summit of India (Peradam) respectively, each album retraces the poets’ footsteps, channelled through on-location recorded soundscapes, in search of hidden, earthy sounds that hold embedded existence, with Patti Smith revisiting the poets’ words that have been inspired by the landscapes.
You can buy the digital album or the 7x vinyl box set plus signed print here.
