Paul Simon - Graceland
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Artist: Paul SimonEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 1997-04-22
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- The Boy In The Bubble
- Graceland
- I Know What I Know
- Gumboots
- Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
- You Can Call Me Al
- Under African Skies
- Homeless
- Crazy Love, Vol. II
- That Was Your Mother
- All Around The World Or The Myth Of The Fingerprints
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Free Music Review: Masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
This seamless blend of African pop and American folk styles is one of the most exquisite musical achievements of the 20th century. The melodies are divine, the vocals inspired, and each and every one of the compositions is a masterpiece. There is sadness and joy in the music, but above all it is a celebration of life.
The best loved songs include The Boy In The Bubble, Graceland, Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes and Under African Skies, but the rest hold great charm too. The most rootsy African sounds surface on I Know What I Know with the robust and soulful vocal infusions of The Gaza Sisters.
Paul Simon has always successfully integrated exotic sounds in his music to create great beauty: Andean flutes on El Condor Pasa, Caribbean rhythms on Me And Julio Down By The School Yard and Mother & Child Reunion, and Latin/South American sounds on The Rhythm of the Saints, but Graceland is his towering achievement as a solo artist, a truly exceptional album with a power and beauty that transcends all musical boundaries.
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The melding of South African styles and Simon's trademark sensibility made for one of the most intriguing albums--not to mention commercial hits--of the '80s. At once lively, thoughtful, gorgeous, and tough, Graceland acknowledges splits both in South Africa's social fabric and in Simon's personal life (the title track is a clear descendant of the earlier "Hearts and Bones," a song about the singer-songwriter's brief marriage to Carrie Fisher). Humor is hardly absent from the mix, though; witness the addled "I Know What I Know" and the fable-like "You Can Call Me Al." --Rickey WrightIn a remarkable career spanning six decades, singer-songwriter Paul Simon has amassed 9 Grammy awards and has been inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. The first occasion recognized has brilliant work as one half of Simon & Garfunkel. Simon's second induction, in 2001, heralded his equally massive contributions as a solo artist and composer. The songwriter's solo catalog is one of the most diverse, literate, adventurous, and musically rich in all of popular music. Today regarded as one of the greatest composers of the rock n' roll era, Simon is an American treasure, now celebrated by these five expanded and remastered classic albums.
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