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Paul Simon Back With The Beat Of Brazil; Looking Ahead In the Shadow of the Past
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
October 14, 1990| Author:
Howard Kurtz
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Paul Simon is sitting in a small, darkened studio surrounded by
buttons and switches and blinking lights, a half-finished bottle of
Evian nestled between his knees.
From a pair of speakers behind him comes the rhythmic clatter of
Brazilian drums. Then the electric guitar urgently announces itself.
Four French-speaking women from Cameroon, in a backup track recorded
that day, sweetly deliver the gospel-style chorus, Never been lonely,
never been lied to. And now Rhymin' Simon begins...
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