{"id":382458,"date":"2011-04-20T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/20\/paul-simon-paul-simon-conjures-up-the-sounds-of-african-wildlife-for-new-album\/"},"modified":"2011-04-20T01:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T01:37:00","slug":"paul-simon-paul-simon-conjures-up-the-sounds-of-african-wildlife-for-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/20\/paul-simon-paul-simon-conjures-up-the-sounds-of-african-wildlife-for-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"PAUL SIMON &#8211; PAUL SIMON CONJURES UP THE SOUNDS OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOR NEW ALBUM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Caption: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contactmusic.com\/photos.nsf\/main\/paul_simon_3186108\">PAUL SIMON (Picture)<\/a> Academy of music 154th anniversary concert Philadelphia, Pennsylvania &#8230;.<\/p>\n<div property=\"dc:description\" readability=\"41.5\"><span id=\"intelliTxt\"\/><\/p>\n<div readability=\"28\"><span id=\"intelliTxt\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span>Paul Simon has discovered a new way of dealing with writer&#8217;s block and it&#8217;s all thanks to the creatures of the African plains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The music legend turned to an audio journal of a 2009 safari trip he took to Kenya with his wife Edie Brickell as he tried to complete the music for his new album So Beautiful or So What &#8211; and ended up incorporating the wildlife sounds into his music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"intelliTxt\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span>He tells the Los Angeles Times, &#8220;It sounded like I was sitting in a room playing, which of course is exactly what I was doing, so I took the sound of the night and I put it in the background. And then I took a wildebeest and stuck it at the end of a particular guitar note every time it occurred; I thought of it as the end of a shoelace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"intelliTxt\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a thing you&#8217;d notice until I said, &#8216;There&#8217;s the wildebeest,&#8217; but it&#8217;s through the whole song. This is the degree to which I was following this obsession with making interesting sounds.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"intelliTxt\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s not Simon&#8217;s first use of the sounds of Africa &#8211; he has been using African musicians and rhythms to pepper his music since hit album Graceland in 1986.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contactmusic.com\/news.nsf\/story\/paul-simon-conjures-up-the-sounds-of-african-wildlife-for-new-album_1213591\" title=\"PAUL SIMON - PAUL SIMON CONJURES UP THE SOUNDS OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOR NEW ALBUM\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PAUL SIMON &#8211; PAUL SIMON CONJURES UP THE SOUNDS OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOR NEW ALBUM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Caption: PAUL SIMON (Picture) Academy of music 154th anniversary concert Philadelphia, Pennsylvania &#8230;. 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