fox-peterIch habe zu Simon & Garfunkel mal eine Frage: gibt es im Rahmen einer Biografie (o.ä.) so etwas wie Notizen dazu, wie einzelne Songs entstanden sind?
Mich würde interessieren, wie „El Condor Pasa“ entstanden ist, eines meiner Lieblingslieder (hängen ganz frühe Erinnerungen dran…)
Und: welche Paul Simon Biografie wäre grundsätzlich empfehlenswert?
Robert Hilburns Biographie Paul Simon. The Life von 2018 fand ich informativ und gut lesbar. Das ist allerdings auch die einzige Paul-Simon-Biographie, die ich gelesen habe; von daher habe ich keinen Vergleich und weiß nicht, ob das die beste ist.
Zu „El Condor Pasa“ liest man darin folgendes (im Kontext von Aufnahmesessions aus dem Jahr 1969):
Simon also decided it was finally time to record his version of an instrumental he had heard in Paris just days before flying home in 1965. At the celebrated Théâtre de l’Est Parisien, the bill included Los Incas, a group of South American musicians who employed pan flutes, keyboard, guitar, and other instruments in playing Andean folk music. He was especially struck by one song, „El Condor Pasa“, which he was told was a traditional folk song that had been given a new arrangement by the Incas‘ Jorge Milchberg. Now Simon wrote lyrics to the original melody in a vaguely philosophical folk style that made the music and words feel like they had been passed down in Andean villages for generations. (…)
Instead of getting US musicians to duplicate the sound of the Incas‘ record or hiring the group to rerecord their version, Simon had the novel idea of simply licensing the original recording from Philips Records and adding his vocal to the track, which became „El Condor Pasa (If I Could)“.
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