Carly Simon's new album "This kind of love"

[Paxton]

Carly Simon has joined ex-paramour James Taylor, Paul McCartney and Joni Mitchell on the roster of Starbucks' Hear Music label. Her first release for the company, "This Kind of Love," will be available April 29.

The 13-track set has a Brazilian-heavy sound, and finds Simon collaborating with Jimmy Webb and Frank Filipetti. That trio was responsible for Simon's 1997 album "Film Noir."

"You don't have to be singing bossa nova or samba to get the essence" of Brazilian music," Simon says. "There are songs that fit no one rhythm or generic type or song progression."

One song each was written by Simon's daughter Sally and son Ben. Among the musicians comprising the studio band are guitarists Peter Calo and David Saw and noted percussionist Cyro Baptista.

"This Kind of Love" is Simon's first album of original material since 2000's "The Bedroom Tapes." Her last two projects have featured standards.

Hear Music, which scored hits last year with McCartney and Mitchell, would seem to be a natural fit for Simon, who has bounced around labels throughout her nearly 40-year career. She most recently recorded for Columbia.

Here is the track list for "This Kind of Love":

"This Kind of Love"
"Hold Out Your Heart"
"People Say A Lot"
"Island"
"How Could You Ever Forget"
"Hola Soleil"
"In My Dreams"
"When We're Together"
"So Many People"
"They Just Want You To Be There"
"Last Samba"
"Sangre Dolce"
"Too Soon to Say Goodbye"

 

[Ontariobear]

Thank you for the post.
Too many artists that I grew up with just aren't recording as often any more and the anticipation (pun intended) of hearing some new songs by an all time fav is a wonderful thing.

 

[phoenix99]

Thanks for the info, after 8 years, it's about time we get some new music from Carly! I can hardly wait.

 

[Yves]

Thanks for posting, Paxton. The Brazilian/Caribbean sound has worked with her voice in the past: "He likes to Roll", Bob Marley's "Is this Love", etc. Looking forward to this release.

A recent song acoustic style:

Quiet Evening

 

[Yves]

Here's the CD cover.

 

[phoenix99]

(edited from hearmusic.com)

One of popular music's most esteemed vocalists and songwriters, Carly Simon delivers the highly anticipated This Kind of Love, her first album of all-original music in eight years and her debut recording for Hear Music. On the label she joins an equally elite roster of artists, including Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor. Co-produced by Simon, Frank Filipetti, and Jimmy Webb, who also wrote or co-wrote most of the arrangements. The CD-intimate, sexy, impassioned, joyful-features 10 new songs written or co-written by the leader, one song each from her children, Ben Taylor and Sally Taylor, and a samba by Webb.

Inspired by and subtly infused with the rhythms of Brazilian music, This Kind of Love explores a wide swath of emotion-romance, reflection, melancholy, anger and humor. It's at once one of Simon's most personal albums as well as one of her most stylistically diverse outings, with songs that include the gently swaying, samba-washed title track, the gorgeously melodic "In My Dreams," the r&b-styled "So Many People to Love" and the percussively funky "People Say a Lot"-a song that traverses expansive musical territory, including an orchestral interlude that leads to a snippet of dialogue from the classic 1950 film All About Eve, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter and George Sanders.

The album was recorded at Legacy Recording Studios in New York, with some parts recorded in Simon's kitchen on Martha's Vineyard and one track, "So Many People," produced by Wade Robson, in Los Angeles at his WaJeRo Sound Studios.

On the CD, Simon sings about her children on two of the tracks (the finger-snapped "Hold Out Your Heart" and the skipping "They Just Want You to Be There") as well as pays homage to her close friend, the humorist columnist Art Buchwald, who passed in January 2007, with the march-like waltz "Too Soon to Say Goodbye." Also included on the album are the spirited "Hola Soleil," a spontaneously created speedy samba cooked up on the spot in Simon's kitchen by the band, and the lyrical gem, "Sangre Dolce," which tells the true, tragic story of a young mother from Buenos Aires living in New York City.

Dedicated to both Art Buchwald and Antonio Carlos Jobim, This Kind of Love marks the next chapter in Simon's prolific career as a top-drawer vocalist and songwriter. "Many of these tunes are autobiographical," she says. "My songs always come from something that personally happens to me or that I overhear or that are inspired by a book or film" Simon adds, "In many [of these] songs, we were led down a garden path in Rio, and most often we didn't say 'no.'"

 

[miatajeff]

Already going to pre-order this. Carly Simon is one of the best vocalists of our time. Her arrangements continue to defy convention and always please my ears!

 

[beatleshead]

Its funny i was just wondering why she wasnt making music that often anymore...her and Carole king. guess I'll have to pick it up.