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Paul Simon, In The Blue Light. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

 

The microphone is often primed for the sound of a hero standing by to record their own particular version of history, waiting for the neon light to blaze with the motto of the scared text, recording in process. Recording after many takes is to be expected, producer’s, engineers, the band, the public, all deserve the very best that can be attained, the beauty of the moment and the illusion of the first-take wonder, all comes with the definition of what is recorded, what is set down, and what makes the listener believe long after those songs may have faded from memory.

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Paul Simon, Stranger To Stranger. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Like chalk and cheese, Paul Simon’s albums normally seem to go from exquisite high to downbeat low, from painstaking beauty to a desire left unfilled. It is in the nature of the listener to find absolute joy and the feeling of cold aloofness throughout every one of Paul Simon’s albums; however it is not one that normally follows in a single album.

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Paul Simon, Hearts And Bones. 30th Anniversary Retrospective.

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Paul Simon, whilst quite rightly regarded as one of the most important and influential American musicians and songwriters of the 20th Century, has had moments in which, no matter how much you love him, you have to take a long hard look at his creative output and suggest that some albums really should have been left locked away in the vault and only ever released as a set of curiosities long after the gifted musician hangs up his guitar for the final time. Such is the fate that should have befallen the 1983 Hearts and Bones release.

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Paul Simon, So Beautiful Or So What. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. June 14th 2011.

For the last two months American audiences have been able to appraise Paul Simon’s new album So Beautiful or So What and give it a huge ringing endorsement that has seen it climb as high as number four in the fabled Billboard Charts. British audiences however have had to wait till the middle of June before being able to hear what the fuss was about, however, this once it was worth the long and agonising wait.

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Paul Simon, Graceland. 25th Anniversary Edition Release. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. June 9th 2012.

There can be little doubt that Paul Simon’s 1986 album Graceland is one of the most important that the former folk singer ever recorded.

Not only did it give a new lease of life to a flagging career after the not well received Hearts and Bones but almost single handed introduced the wider world to the music of South Africa that was still being repressed by the apartheid regime in power at the time.

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