What happened is I was playing around with my Yamaha Clavinova, which is one of those machines where you can press any button, like “pop,” “R&B,” “world music” or whatever. It could be sort of Argentinian, sort of tango-type, waltzy back in 1940 or something like that. “Wild World” has an almost waltz-vibe to it. We had a very, very good time making this record. If you listen to “On the Road to Find Out,” that to me is a beautiful departure from the original since it’s gone into an area that I love, a sort of desert blues. If you listen to “Longer Boats,” nobody would have expected James Brown to jump in the middle of it and start funking around, but that’s exactly how we did it. There was also this idea of re-recording so you could circulate your own versions, but I don’t think that was necessary.
CAT STEVENS NEW ALBUM LICENSE
When many older artists re-record their classic albums, they tend to stick to the exact same arrangements and it’s usually just an attempt to license them out when they don’t own the publishing of the originals. And now here’s me at 70 singing with myself when I was about 22. In “Father and Son,” the voice of the son was taken from a recording of me in 1970 at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. That was another reason.Īnd I got to sing a duet with myself after 50 years, which is incredible. I have taken them to a slightly different sphere of sonicality. I also wanted to take some expeditions and adventures with the songs, which I certainly have done with some of them.
CAT STEVENS NEW ALBUM UPDATE
There’s nothing to stop us.” That was the first ignition of the idea.Īnother reason was I wanted to do more up-to-date versions of how I do it onstage and how I’d like to do it onstage so I could update my catalog a little bit and show how I sound today. And we thought about it and my son Yoriyos came up with the idea of, “Why don’t we record it again?” I suddenly thought, “Hang on. One of them was that we knew we were coming up to the 50th birthday of the friendly face, Tillerman, and we wanted to do something special for him. I’ve really been enjoying the new version of Tea for the Tillerman. I read more during this Ramadan than I have during previous ones. It’s a spiritual month and you don’t have to be going out and gallivanting everywhere. We had to do everything at home, but that was good for me because it made it more intense and more concentrated. That wasn’t possible since all the mosques are shut. Normally in Ramadan, you like to go to the mosque for the last prayer of the day. Everything here is not too bad, to be honest. I haven’t gone in myself, but they apparently monitor you and measure your temperature. You need to wear masks and have gloves, but they’ve just eased things up a little bit and some shops are open. We’re obviously kind of locked down and can’t go very far. Yusuf called Rolling Stone from his home in Dubai to discuss the new album, his life during quarantine, his touring plans and the usage of his music in the films Rushmore and Harold and Maude. I hope a lot of people will love to grow this new album.” “It’s their soundtrack and people’s memories are so intertwined with the notes of this album and the music of this album. “This album is very important because it’s celebrating so many people,” he tells Rolling Stone. That said, Yusuf worked hard to maintain the same spirit of the originals. “Wild World,” meanwhile, now sounds almost like a waltz. In many cases, they are lusher than the sparse originals and some take surprising left turns, like a funkafied “Longer Boats” featuring guest vocals from rapper Brother Ali. The new renditions of the 11 Tea for the Tillerman tracks are not note-for-note recreations. He’s called it Tea for the Tillerman² and it comes out on September 18th, but you can hear the new version of “Where Do the Children Play?” right here. To celebrate, the songwriter (who now records under the name Yusuf) has re-recorded the entire album with original producer Paul Samwell-Smith and original guitarist Alun Davies. This November will mark the 50th anniversary of Cat Stevens’ landmark album Tea for the Tillerman, which features “Wild World,” “Father and Son,” “Where Do the Children Play?” and other classics.
0 kommentar(er)
