The album took direct inspiration from the South African style of music called mbaqanga. Simon was given a tape of mbaqanga music, describing it as “very good summer music, happy music ...

South African musician Bakithi Kumalo is known for his bass playing, which is all over Paul Simon’s seminal album “Graceland.” You very likely know Kumalo’s famous riff on the hit tune “You Can Call ...

Graceland began as jam sessions in South Africa. The Johannesburg recordings changed how Paul Simon wrote songs, with new chord variations and the Bagithi Khumalo bass lines shaping vocal melodies ...

Paul Simon, 83, delivers over more than two hours on stage, revisiting Simon & Garfunkel, Graceland and his latest album Seven Psalms as A Quiet Celebration winds down.

Graceland, made in South Africa in 1986 with local musicians, still sounds relevant, both as an artistic document problematized by time and place, and as a great album.

Paul Simon has announced a new album, “Seven Psalms,” a suite-like conceptual album that he says is meant to be listened to as one 33-minute piece of work, containing seven distinct but ...

The dream-like qualities of Paul Simon 's 33-minute acoustic meditation Seven Psalms are no accident. The 81-year-old singer-songwriter said both the album's title and lyrics for the seven songs ...

That solo career led Simon to South Africa and his hit 1986 album Graceland. True to its deft style, the film lets us see and hear the extraordinary changes in his music as it evolved.

In 1987, Ladysmith Black Mambazo released an album, Shaka Zulu, named after the 19th-century founder of the Zulu empire. The record was both the group's proper international debut (it was produced by ...

Paul Simon has announced a new project — not quite an album — called Seven Psalms. Arriving May 19, the seven-movement composition technically follows 2018’s In The Blue Light and is ...