Patti Smith/Kevin Shields Releasing “Coral Sea” Live Recording
Posted on April 27th, 2008 by Matthew
Patti Smith and My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields’ performance of The Coral Sea will finally see a proper release. The double-disc documents a spoken word performance of Smith’s book of the same title with Shields providing guitar as the background. The recording is from two gigs that happened on June 22nd, 2005 and September 12th, 2006 at the QEH in London.
The work was a tribute to Smith’s late friend, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The Coral Sea will be released on July 11 via their duo’s PASK imprint.
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For those who may be interested, here is a video we made about Patti Smith during her personnal exhibition in Paris at “La Fondation Cartier”. She gives her ideas on life, art…
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