Harps And Angels Vinyl

Randy newman s first studio album of all new material in nearly a decade is by turns hilarious poignant and scathingly satirical.

Harps and angels vinyl.

Harps and angels was randy newman s first all new studio recording in nine years. Harps and angles often has an easy going crescent city feel with newman on piano fronting a small combo and revealing as rolling stone put it after the carnegie hall show his serious love and study of the new orleans piano tradition. Harps and angels is the 10th studio album by randy newman it was released on august 5 2008 and was produced by mitchell froom and lenny waronker it contains two updated versions of previously released compositions. It incorporates both the scathingly satirical and the unabashedly tender.

It incorporates both the scathingly satirical and the unabashedly tender. A lyre is a stringed instrument usually made from a turtle shell with two curved arms connected. It s quite possible harps are a holdover from ancient greek times when the gods were often said to play lyres as seen in the above painting of apollo. 30 years of randy newman.

Harps and angels was randy newman s first all new studio recording in nine years. Feels like home originally appeared on his musical album randy newman s faust and a demo of laugh and be happy was included in the box set guilty. This isn t stasis this is consistency. Variety says the album finds newman at the height of his powers and the guardian praises its sumptuous melodies devastating pathos and thorny irony laden character songs calling it the work of a true master of popular song.