Harps And Angels Vinyl

There is no clear reason for the harp to be the angels instrument of choice.

Harps and angels vinyl. This isn t stasis this is consistency. 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. In many ways harps and angels is a continuation of bad love as it has a similar stripped down production and many of the same lyrical themes as newman still is singing about america and aging just as he was almost a decade earlier. A lyre is a stringed instrument usually made from a turtle shell with two curved arms connected.

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

Harps and angels was randy newman s first all new studio recording in nine years. It incorporates both the scathingly satirical and the unabashedly tender. 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. It incorporates both the scathingly satirical and the unabashedly tender.