New record from Patti?

["Combs, Steve" <SteveSea>]

This is from Uncut Magazine Take 129, Feb 2008, pg 51.



25 Albums you must hear in 2008.



Patti Smith and Kevin Shields

Title: The Coral Sea

Label: TBC

Release Date: March/April

Live tribute to photographer Robert Mapplethorpe form New York punk
queen and My Blood Valentine honcho.



Patti Smith: I met Kevin when I curated the Meltdown Festival in 2005. I
had been living very simply in seclusion for all of the '80s until my
husbands death in '94, so I hadn't seen My Bloody Valentine perform-but
I love their albums. I was talking to Glenn Max (Meltdown producer)
about who I would dream of collaborating with, and I mentioned Kevin.
Glenn helped make it happen. There's 2 discs, two different
performances. The first one, form Meltdown, is more straightforward. The
second one was more emotional, more verbal improvisation, and the music
was a little louder. Kevin and I don't really repeat ourselves. It was
Kevin's idea to present these two different approaches to the same
piece. We have a lot of different ideas and I think both of us are
immersed in our own projects right now, but we wanted to document our
first collaboration. I have faith that Kevin and I will do other things
together.