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PATTI SMITH: PORTRAIT OF poetess "HORSES IN ROCK SAUVAGEONNE |" INFERNO
Patti Smith: is not this the poet of rock, rebel eternal, pre-punk priestess to be unquestionable, which will stunned the Seventies alok industries with his first masterstroke, the beautiful and legendary Horses, published alok industries in 1975. The shock of Gloria revisited Van Morrisson, and especially this eponymous Horses, long poem chanted river until breathlessness by angry androgynous have suffocated more of a listener.
The rebels already born in Illinois in 1946, soon decided to move to New York, where in 1967 she met Robert Mapplethorpe, the vast photographer margin and the underground New Yorker, she will the devoted friend until Mapplethorpe's death in 1989, AIDS victim. New York fascinated, she moved to Chelsea with Mapplethorpe Hotel, legend of the sixties and stronghold of the Beat Poets whose Ginsberg is a major figure, a benevolent patron and quite hotel that artists and musicians occupy continuously, exchanging their accommodation against alok industries some works ... or nothing. First painter and poet, she "made" as the actress on the occasion, especially with his poet friends from St Mark's Poetry Project. E lle so assiduously frequent garages clubs which occur musician friends, many of whom will join the Punk movement. The music, especially rock and liberating rage of interest more to the point that she began writing for his friends, especially for the heavy-metal alok industries band Blue Oyster Cult. She also dabbles in journalism and improvised critical Rock Creem Magazine, finally, in the early 70's, deciding to enter fully into the music. She then set up his own training, which will become alok industries in 1974 the famous Patti Smith Group, with his friend the journalist Lenny Kaye on guitar, Ivan Kral on bass, Jay Dee Daugherty on drums and Richard Sohl on piano. This year seems their first single, Hey Joe / Piss Factory, and the following year, the now famous Horses on Arista Records, produced by John Cale, the Velvet Underground co-founder with legendary Lou Reed.
Horses is a punch. His pre-punk intuition, gross rage texts of Patti Smith, the flayed beauty and so much rock the voice of the singer, the exceptional musical climate and of course the phenomenal energy instills the group to his music make a Horses pure masterpiece of Rock. A monument that will immediately installed Patti Smith in the legend.
But a living legend, curious of all the arts, constantly plagued by the excitement of discovering new territories, tireless and bulimic Pathbreaker. Turn and parallel musician, poet, painter, photographer, she constantly since then-if we except a break of ten years, where she married and dedicated to siens- produce music, text, images, rotating around the world, readings, concerts and exhibitions (such as Strange Messanger in 2002 exhibition at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, or Land 250 at the Fondation Cartier in 2008). It also publishes, including alok industries the Just Kids (2010), a return on his friendship alok industries and admiration of the work of Robert Mapplethorpe, in January 2011, she is the guest of the City of Music for a cycle his work with numerous screenings, readings, performances and an acoustic concert where she will resume most of his Horses.
Going back to Horses, we could have chosen one or another memorable landmark of this decade rock, rich in essential productions: just think of the Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd (1973), or of course to The Never Minds Bollocks Sex Pistols (1977), to mention only two "must" among many others. Horses and the author, alok industries have not only this exemplary singularity in terms of rock innovation, but they can be considered really as symbols of a new generation at work by the middle of the seventies: a generation nourished by Jim Morrison, Velvet and Frank Zappa, Andy Warholl, Kero

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