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Rock folk legend Paul Simon announced Thursday the release of an album, with new arrangements of old songs, to be released two weeks before his last live concert.
The former duo Simon and Garfunkel, a pioneer of fusion music in the 1980s, had announced that he would stop performing after a last concert on September 22 at the Forest Hills Stadium in the neighborhood. Queens in New York, where he grew up. [19659002] In anticipation of this event, Simon said that on September 7, he will release his fourteenth solo studio album, In the Blue Light in which some collaborators help him reinterpret his songs.
New album "In The Blue Light", available September 7th!
Paul Simon revisits and gives a new perspective to 10 of his personal favorites from his body of work. The guest musicians include @wyntonmarsalis @BillFrisell @ andMusicNYC & more. Pre-order today: https://t.co/W7Ohcp0xmDpic.twitter.com/gcSDdM5HkE – Paul Simon (@PaulSimonMusic) July 12, 2018
"Not common for an artist to have the opportunity to revisit old works and rethink them, modify them and sometimes completely change the original versions, "says Simon, 76, in the statement announcing this album." I hope listeners have the impression that these new versions bring a new air to old themes, like a new coat of paint on the walls of the old family home, "he adds [19659007 You can call me Al or Me and Julio by the schoolyard .It will rather try to promote lesser known subjects such as René and Georgette Magritte with their dog after the war of surreal inspiration.
Among the guest stars fig ure the famous jazz trumpet player Wynton Marsalis in the heart approaches what he aspires and Pigs, sheep and wolves as well as Bryce Dessner, composer and guitarist of the rock band independent The National, who makes a new arrangement of Simon's song about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Can not run but .
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