With their Nico tribute album Killer Road due for release 2nd September on Bella Union,Soundwalk Collective, Jesse Paris Smith and Patti Smith and have unveiled a haunting visual for the LP’s eponymous opening track.
Shot on the island of Ibiza, where Nico passed in the summer of 88, the film represents an imaginary landscape of Nico’s last day. Filmed and directed by Stephan Crasneanscki of Soundwalk Collective, and edited by Tina Frank for their subsequent concert performance, the video can be viewed below…
The roots of Killer Road lie in a fortuitous meeting on an airplane bound for New York. One passenger was Patti Smith; the other was Soundwalk Collective founder Crasneanscki. Soundwalk had previously been a collaborative series of walking guides to cities that created an idiosyncratic and evocative understanding for the listener, before evolving into musical frameworks for field recordings and sight specific sound installations and performances using a variety of texts and themes.
Killer Road was initially a live audio-visual experience in New York as part of 2014’s Crossing the Line festival, with subsequent performances taking place in London and Berlin. Finally, we now we have the recorded version, a poignant, profound, imaginative exploration and tribute nearly 30 years after that fateful summer’s day.
1. Killer Road
2. My Heart Is Empty
3. Evening Of Light
4. Saeta
5. Secret Side
6. Fearfully In Danger
7. I Will Be Seven
8. The Sphinx
9. My Only Child
http://geni.us/SCKillerRoadDL
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