John Patitucci, Renaud Garcia-Fons Featured on Paul Simon’s “In The Blue Light”
Paul Simon is currently on his farewell concert tour, which may be part of the reasoning for his new semi-retrospective album, In The Blue Light. The 10-song album features fresh perspectives on some of his lesser-known songs from his catalog with tracks taken from seven records.
“This album consists of songs that I thought were almost right, or were odd enough to be overlooked the first time around,” Simon says. “Re-doing arrangements, harmonic structures, and lyrics that didn’t make their meaning clear, gave me time to clarify in my own head what I wanted to say, or realize what I was thinking and make it more easily understood.”
Simon called upon some of the world’s top jazz musicians: Wynton Marsalis, Bill Frisell, Jack DeJohnette, Steve Gadd, and more. The low-end duties are split on the album between John Patitucci and Renaud Garcia-Fons. (We’ll also give Simon credit for playing bass harmonica on “Questions For The Angels”.) You can see Patitucci during the recording session in this EPK:
In The Blue Light is available now on CD, vinyl and as a digital download (iTunes and Amazon MP3).
In The Blue Light Track List:
- One Man’s Ceiling Is Another Man’s Floor
- Love
- Can’t Run But
- How The Heart Approaches What It Yearns
- Pigs, Sheep and Wolves
- René and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War
- The Teacher
- Darling Lorraine
- Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy
- Questions For The Angels
