Bella Union Schallplatten & CDs

Review: For the second part of their "triptych" of collaborative albums with Patti Smith, the Soundwalk Collective traveled to Africa to re-trace the steps of Arthur Rimbaud, a 19th century French poet who fell in love with a mystical form of Islam called Sufism. The chants and music of Ethiopian Sufi groups feature prominently in "Mummer Love", alongside atmospheric field recordings (including some made by the group of the tree Rimbaud once sat under writing his poems), groovy new electronic instrumentation, fuzzy guitars, drowsy ambient chords and stylish interpretations of Rimbaud's poems by Patti Smith.