Art Garfunkel: The Singer auf 2 CDs

2 CDs mit 34 Songs aus Art Garfunkels Solo-Werk und seinen Zeiten als Mitglied von Simon & Garfunkel, vom Künstler persönlich ausgewählt. Von "The Sound Of Silence" vom ersten Simon & Garfunkel Album (1964) bis zu "Some Enchanted Evening" aus dem "Great American Songbook" Album von 2007.

Neben den sieben S & G Studio- und Live-Aufnahmen ist hier die bislang umfassendste Sammlung seiner Solo Hits enthalten, mit allen UK und US #1 Hits von "All I Know", "Breakaway", "I Only Have Eyes For You", "My Little Town" (mit Paul Simon), "(What A) Wonderful World" (mit Paul Simon & James Taylor) bis "Bright Eyes" (bekannt aus WATERSHIP DOWN (Unten am Fluss)). Mit im Gepäck sind zwei brandneue Songs aus dem Jahr 2012, "Lena" und "Long Way Home".

Das Booklet enthält zusätzlich Art's handschriftliche Gedanken zu allen Songs. Alles in allem erleben wir hier die Stimme und die Seele eines wahren amerikanischen Dichters in einer wahrhaft beeindruckenden Werkschau. Das würdige Gegenstück zu Paul Simons Best Of Album "Songwriter" - so sind die beiden wieder vereint.

- umfassende Werkschau des Sängers (Simon & Garfunkel)

- 34 Songs von 1964 bis 2007

- 2 brandneue Songs exclusiv für diese Kopplung

- die Ergänzung zu Paul Simon's Best Of Album "SONGWRITER"

Product Information

“What is the singing voice to me? A name, a skill, or a flag I see? A certain thrill - the gift of glide, the ride on the cusp of emotion, uplift from the heart to the cords, love for the song, for the sound.” – Art Garfunkel.

Pulling together one man’s remarkable career in music, “The Singer” is a 34-song collection of songs hand-picked by the artist himself. Spanning a life’s body of work from the first Simon & Garfunkel album of 1964 “Wednesday Morning, 3 AM” through 2007’s Great American Songbook album “Some Enchanted Evening” and continuing with two newly-recorded performances for this release “Lena” and “Long Way Home”.

The voice and soul of a true American poet have illuminated the work of Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee Art Garfunkel for nearly five decades. It is there on record - the Simon & Garfunkel LPs of 1964 to 1970 on Columbia, and his deep catalogue as a solo artist starting in 1973 (the first six albums also on Columbia) - as well as in film, and on the printed page (his 1987 collection of prose poetry, ‘Still Water’). Five-time Grammy® Award-winner Art Garfunkel has always approached every new project with the poet’s perspective.

As Garfunkel explained the essence of his Simon & Garfunkel artistry to Esquire, “We didn't push for exaggerating one's contribution… There are songs where I am a shadow. As the record emerged, you go, That's what it is. Those are the two personalities. And the sound is lovely as long as the composite works. But as a solo, starting in the ’70s, I became a tenor / baritone, more expressive leading man of a singer. I owned the interpretation.”

In addition to curating The Singer”, Garfunkel provides his own personal track-by-track annotations, which appear in the booklet in his handwritten form. The notes are as unique as Garfunkel himself. The weaving of songs from the Simon & Garfunkel repertoire with songs from Art Garfunkel’s repertoire as a solo artist is one of the hallmarks of “The Singer”, as the collection takes on a timeless air, moving back and forth through time in a seamless pattern. The theme stays true - “The Singer” can sing!

(sonymusic. ie)

Rezensionen

,,Im Gegensatz zu seinem früheren Duopartner mag Garfunkel zwar nicht immer so geschmackssicher sein und mitunter die Grenze zum Kitsch mehr als nur berühren. Doch auf dieser fünf Jahrzehnte umspannende Sammlung kommt dann doch so einiges an Brauchbarem bis Gutem zusammen, etwa seine Version des Albert-Hammond-Songs “99 Miles From L. A.” oder “Breakaway”, seine Zusammenarbeit mit Crosby & Nash." (Good Times, Oktober / November 2012)