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Overview

After the success of Horses, Patti Smith had something to prove to reviewers and to the industry, and Radio Ethiopia aimed at both. Producer Jack Douglas gave "the Patti Smith Group," as it was now billed, a hard rock sound, notably on the side-opening "Ask the Angels" and "Pumping (My Heart)," songs that seemed aimed at album-oriented rock radio. But the title track was a ten-minute guitar extravaganza that pushed the group's deliberate primitivism closer to amateurish thrashing. Elsewhere, Smith repeated the reggae excursions and vocal overlaying that had paced Horses on "Ain't It Strange" and "Poppies," but these efforts were less effective than they had been the first time around, perhaps because they were less inspired, perhaps because they were more familiar. A schizophrenic album in which the many elements that had worked so well together on Horses now seemed jarringly incompatible, with Radio Ethiopia Smith and her band encountered the same development problem the punks would -- as they learned their craft and competence set in, they lost some of the unself-consciousness that had made their music so appealing. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date: 08/04/2009
Label: Sony Music Distribution / Sony Bmg / Sony Music
UPC: 0886974869528
Rank: 40583

Tracks

  1. Ask the Angels
  2. Ain't It Strange
  3. Poppies
  4. Pissing in a River
  5. Pumping
  6. Distant Fingers
  7. Radio Ethiopia
  8. Abyssinia
  9. Chiklets

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Patti Smith Group   Primary Artist
Patti Smith   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Ivan Kral   Bass,Guitar
Lenny Kaye   Bass,Guitar,Vocals
Jay Dee Daugherty   Drums,Percussion
Richard Sohl   Piano,Keyboards,Synthesizer
Les Paul   Bass
Ivan Kral-Gibson   Bass
Andi Ostrowe   Amharic

Technical Credits

Bob Irwin   Mastering
Ivan Kral   Composer
Jack Douglas   Producer
Lenny Kaye   Mixing,Composer
Jay Dee Daugherty   Mixing,Composer,Consultant
Sam Ginsberg   Assistant Engineer
Rod O'Brien   Assistant Engineer
Richard Sohl   Composer
Brian Sperber   Engineer
George Marino   Mastering
Patti Smith   Design,Composer,Performer
Vic Anesini   Mastering
Jay Messina   Mixing,Engineer
Lynn Goldsmith   Photography
Nancy Greenberg   Design
Sherri Whitmarsh   Reissue Design
Allen Lanier   Composer
Patti Smith Group   Performer
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