Paul Simon - 2016 - Stranger To Stranger (Deluxe Edition) (HDtracks) [[email protected]]



Artist: Paul Simon

Title: Stranger To Stranger (Deluxe Edition) (HDtracks)

Format: 16 × File, FLAC, Album, Remastered, 24bit 96kHz (HDtracks)

Producer: Paul Simon, Roy Halee,

Release Date: June 3, 2016

Recorded: 2011– April 2016

Label: Concord Records (i)

Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, Pop, World, & Country

Duration: 53:40





Paul Simon:







Wikipedia:

Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and actor. Simon's fame, influence, and commercial success began as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, formed in 1964 with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote nearly all of the pair's songs, including three that reached No. 1 on the U.S. singles charts: "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", and "Bridge over Troubled Water".

The duo split up in 1970 at the height of their popularity and Simon began a successful solo career as a guitarist and singer-songwriter, recording three highly acclaimed albums over the next five years. In 1986, he released Graceland, an album inspired by South African township music, which sold 14 million copies worldwide on its release and remains his most popular solo work. Simon also wrote and starred in the film One-Trick Pony (1980) and co-wrote the Broadway musical The Capeman (1998) with the poet Derek Walcott. On June 3, 2016, Simon released his 13th solo album, titled Stranger to Stranger, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Album Chart and the UK charts.

Simon has earned sixteen Grammys for his solo and collaborative work, including three for Album of the Year (Bridge Over Troubled Water, Still Crazy After All These Years, Graceland), and a Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2001, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2006 was selected as one of the "100 People Who Shaped the World" by Time magazine. In 2011, Rolling Stone magazine named Simon as one of the 100 Greatest Guitarists. In 2015, he was named as one of the 100 Greatest Songwriters by Rolling Stone. Among many other honors, Simon was the first recipient of the Library of Congress's Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in 2007. In 1986, Simon was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music, where he currently serves on the Board of Trustees.





Stranger To Stranger (Deluxe Edition):







Wikipedia:

Stranger to Stranger is the 13th solo studio album by American folk rock singer-songwriter Paul Simon. Produced by Paul Simon and Roy Halee, it was released on June 3, 2016 through Concord Records. Simon wrote the material over a period of several years, perfecting it and rewriting it to his liking. Its music is experimental, making use of custom-made instruments by composer and music theorist Harry Partch. Three of the songs on the album are collaborations with Italian electronic artist Clap! Clap!.

His first release in over five years, Stranger to Stranger received wide critical acclaim. It represented Simon's highest-ever debut on the Billboard 200, at number three, and reached number one on the UK Albums Chart.



AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine:

"The Werewolf" opens Stranger to Stranger, Paul Simon's thirteenth solo studio album, with a heavy rhythmic thud -- bass, drums, and maracas lumbering along in a modified Bo Diddley beat not a far cry from the Who's "Slip Kid." Simon isn't looking to the past, though: he's writing toward an inevitable sunset, mindful of mortality -- just like he was on 2011's So Beautiful or So What -- but he's firmly grounded in a tumultuous present, embracing all the cut-and-paste contradictions endemic to the digital age. With the exception of a pair of hushed acoustic numbers and the expansive title track, all positioned to provide necessary pressure relief from the density of the rest of the record, Stranger to Stranger feels built from the rhythm up, a tactic familiar to Simon since 1986's Graceland. Unlike the easy gait of Graceland, the words here are clipped and rushed, sliding in with the bustle of the rhythm. It's not that the songs aren't melodic -- hooks arrive in snatches, sometimes forming through the rhythms themselves -- but the tracks are cloistered and colorful, accentuated by traces of gospel and doo wop; there's even an apparent "Love Is Strange" sample. Echoes of tradition existing within this modern framework are telling, underscoring how Simon is making music where the past is ever-present but not consuming: he's shifted his aesthetic to mirror his times, a tactic common in his solo career. In many ways, Stranger to Stranger is as bracing and ambitious as Surprise, his 2006 collaboration with producer Brian Eno -- this is especially true of its opening triptych, all created with Italian dance musician Clap! Clap! -- but the tenor of this album is different. Where the specter of 9/11 hung heavily over Surprise, Simon seems at peace on Stranger to Stranger, acknowledging the twilight yet not running toward it because there's so much to experience in the moment. He's choosing to push forward, not look back, and the results are invigorating.





Tracklist:



01. The Werewolf (3:26)

02. Wristband (3:18)

03. The Clock (1:03)

04. Street Angel (2:11)

05. Stranger To Stranger (4:36)

06. In A Parade (2:22)

07. Proof Of Love (5:44)

08. In The Garden Of Edie (1:49)

09. The Riverbank (4:12)

10. Cool Papa Bell (4:03)

11. Insomniac's Lullaby (4:33)



Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks:



12. Horace And Pete (2:30)

13. Duncan (live from A Prairie Home Companion February 2016) (4:43)

14. Wristband (live from A Prairie Home Companion) (3:29)

15. Guitar Piece 3 (1:11)

16. New York Is My Home (feat. Dion) (4:30)





Personnel:



Paul Simon – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, autoharp, baritone acoustic guitar, bass harmonica, celeste, chromelodeon, clock, glockenspiel, gopichand, harmonium, mbira, percussion, 12-string guitar

Bobby Allende – conga drums

David Broome – chromelodeon

C.J. Camerieri – French horn, horns, trumpet

Clap! Clap! – electronic drums, programming, samples, synthesizers

Jack DeJohnette – drums (tracks 9 and 11)

Dean Drummond – bamboo marimba, zoomoozophone

Dave Eggar – cello

Alan Ferber – trombone

Gil Goldstein – string arrangements

Golden Gate Quartet – sampled backing vocals

Nelson González – maracas, tres

Wycliffe Gordon – trombone

Jamey Haddad – brushes, hadjira, percussion

Paul Halley – pipe organ

Carlos Henriquez – acoustic bass, bass

Katie Kresek – viola

Bakithi Kumalo – bass guitar, electric bass

Steve Marion – slide guitar

Sergio Martínez – hand claps, percussion

Bobby McFerrin – backing vocals

Keith Montie – backing vocals

Nico Muhly – celeste, orchestra bells, horn and flute arrangements

Vincent Nguini – electric and acoustic guitar

Jim Oblon – drum machine, drums, electronic drums, percussion

Nino de los Reyes – hand claps, percussion

Oscar de los Reyes – hand claps, percussion

Marcus Rojas – tuba

Mick Rossi – glockenspiel, harmonium, rhodes

Andy Snitzer – saxophone, backing vocals

Jared Soldiviero – bamboo marimba, bowed marimba, cloud chamber bowls, harmonic canon

Alex Sopp – flute

Mark Stewart – big boing mbira, trombadoo[/size]















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