Peradam

The sounds of bird song, singing bowls and water rippling invite us to ‘Peradam’, the transcendent new album by Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith, released via Bella Union.

‘Peradam’ takes as its entry point René Daumal’s early 1930s novel ‘Mount Analogue: a Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing’, in which the French writer,
critic and poet mapped a metaphysical journey to “the ultimate symbolic mountain” in search of meaning. In it, Daumal introduced the idea of the ‘peradam’, a rare, crystalline stone – harbouring
profound truths – that is only visible to seekers on a true spiritual path.

‘Peradam’ arrives as “the final stone,” says Soundwalk Collective’s Stephan Crasneanscki, in ‘The Perfect Vision’, a triptych of albums that evoke and explore the sainted spaces of thought and creativity opened by three French writers. After albums devoted to Antonin Artaud (‘The Peyote Dance’) and Arthur Rimbaud (‘Mummer Love’),
‘Peradam’ expands on “the living space,” says Smith, that Daumal left for future seekers to enter and create out of.

Double LP pressed on sky blue vinyl with digital download card.