The Peyote Dance

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Call Number: CD Rock Soundwalk Peyote
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

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Composed by Soundwalk Collective; all texts written by Antonin Artaud, except Ivry, written by Patti Smith.
"Bella Union under license to PIAS"--Container.
Una nota sobre El peyote (featuring Gael Garcia Bernal) -- Indian culture -- Tutuguri : the rite of the black sun -- Tutuguri : the rite of black night -- The new revelations of being -- Alienation and black magic -- Ivry -- Basalówala aminá ralámuli paísila.
Soundwalk Collective (Stephan Crasneanscki, Simone Merli, various instruments) ; Patti Smith, vocals ; with featured guest performer and additional musicians.
Conceived as the first part of triptych of albums "The perfect vision" taking inspiration from the writings of three French poets: Antonin Artaud, Arthur Rimbaud, and René Daumal.
"The peyote dance focuses on a brief part of Artaud's life, when he travelled to Mexico City in early 1936 to deliver a series of lectures at the University of Mexico on topics including surrealism, Marxism and theatre. In the summer, he travelled by train towards the Chihuahua region, and saddled by horse to the Tarahumara mountains with the help of a mestizo guide, which the album's opening track, recited by Gael Garcia Bernal, evokes. Artaud was drawn to the story of the Rarámuri: Native Indian people who live in the Norogachi region of Mexico's Copper Canyon, the Sierra Tarahumara. One of Artaud's goals was to find a peyote shaman who could heal him; allowing him to recover from an opioid addiction. During his stay, encountering the Rarámuri Indians and peyote shamans of Tarahumara, and engaging in ceremonies, Artaud had a transcendental experience which resulted in the book The peyote dance. For the eponymous album, Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith revisited writings from the book, and others texts written after Artaud's return to France, where he remained in a mental asylum in Rodez undergoing electric shock therapy. During this dark period, the encounter with the Rarámuri stayed with him as his last significant, happy experience. The penultimate track on the album is a poem written by Patti Smith in homage to Artaud's last hours in Ivry"--Bella Union WWW site, viewed Arr. 7, 2020.
Contents: Tarahumaras.

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