Horses

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Patti Smith, « the first published poet to move her poetry completely into rock 'n' roll and to entice experimental rock fans into the forbidden cinema of her hallucinatory fantasy » (New York Times), began her musical ... [Show more]

Description:
Patti Smith, « the first published poet to move her poetry completely into rock 'n' roll and to entice experimental rock fans into the forbidden cinema of her hallucinatory fantasy » (New York Times), began her musical career unconventionally. It took off at a poetry reading where she was backed by Lenny Kaye on guitar; later star photographer Robert Mapplethorpe financed her punk-rock cult single "Hey Joe".

In 1975, encouraged by her success, Patti Smith released "Horses", an album in which she fused rock riffs and spoken rhythms to create a punk-trash sound. The rock scene was electrified, raging about « the best garage sound of the 70s » "Creem Magazine" and conjectured that Smith had « drawn up material from Rimbaud, Burroughs, Dylan and Velvet Underground into a hot needle and injected it under the skin » "Sounds Magazine". Later productions were dismissed as sentimental and self-loving outpourings, since the rock-poet didn’t continue in the same vein as "Horses", with its metallic harshness and raw language. That’s why this recording remains an impressive unique production by a visionary rock ’n’ roll singer.

This Speakers Corner production was manufactured 100 % analogously, with the use of the analogue mastertape and analogue mastering. All royalties and mechanical rights have been paid.

Recording : January 1975 at Electric Ladyland Studios, New York City, by Bernie Kirsh
Production : John Cale
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