Paul Simon has announced ‘Seven Psalms,’ a seven movement, 33-minute album intended to be listened to in one sitting.
singer/songwriter’s “craft at its finest and most captivating, simply with his voice and guitar.”
In a preview trailer, Simon, 81, explains that in Jan. 2019 he had a dream that told him he was working on a piece called. “The dream was so strong that I got up and I wrote it down, but I had no idea what that meant,” he says over gently picked acoustic guitars. “Gradually, information would come,” he adds, noting that he began waking up between 3:30 and 5 a.m. “and words would come. I’d write ’em down and start to put it together.
The album is described as, “a stunning, intricately layered work” that establishes “an engaging and meditative, almost hymnal soundscape, with Paul’s lyrics providing the gravitational center for constellations of sound woven from guitar strings and other acoustic instrumentation.
“People say, ‘why is it that you always want to change your sound?,'” Simon says of questions he gets about his restless musical heart. “I’m not thinking that way at all. I’m looking for the edge of what you can hear. I can just about hear it but I can’t quite. That’s the thing I want.”
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