Girl with a Mirror Paul Stephenson

Cover Girl with a Mirror

Album info

Album-Release:
2014

HRA-Release:
21.06.2019

Label: Stockfisch Records

Genre: Songwriter

Subgenre: New Acoustic

Artist: Paul Stephenson

Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)

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  • 1 The Silver String 03:21
  • 2 God´s Upstairs 03:45
  • 3 The Frozen Bird 02:42
  • 4 Earthward Bound 04:23
  • 5 Windmill Sails 04:23
  • 6 Rainy Day Man 04:05
  • 7 Back Where You Belong 03:30
  • 8 I´m Not A Thing 05:14
  • 9 To Be There 03:53
  • 10 Now So Far 04:40
  • 11 Girl With A Mirror 04:06
  • 12 Playing Neptune 03:01
  • 13 Only Everything 02:54
  • 14 Eyes Will Be Open 03:46
  • 15 Lost Out On Below 03:29
  • Total Runtime 57:12

Info for Girl with a Mirror

Ein Jahrzehnt gelebtes Leben in einer Nanosekunde: Fortgeschrittene Physik? Magie? Nein: You can always count on a man - Paul Stephenson! Sein neues Album ist NICHT Light Green Ball, es heißt „Girl With A Mirror“.

Man kann seine Jugend nicht wiederholen. Auch ein Künstler kann das nicht. Er hat es nur leichter, weil er Härten des Schicksals, Verluste, Enttäuschungen und Älterwerden ja zu Kunst machen kann. Und er hat es schwerer, weil er als Künstler das tun MUSS. Während Stephensons Erstling noch die Aura des „ something ‘s gonna happen“ verströmte, eine fast erotische Spannung und das Singen des süßen Vogels Jugend, ist „on the way to Santiago“ seither offenbar sehr viel passiert im Leben des Künstlers. So klingt GIRL WITH A MIRROR leicht dunkler, gesetzter und reflexiver, aber nicht hoffnungslos. Stephenson transformiert hier musikalisch und textlich die dunkleren Weltaspekte von Verlust, Enttäuschung und Resignation in pure Poesie, lässt das Pastellblau eines Amsterdamer Himmels aber letztlich die dunklen Wolken besiegen.

Im wörtlichen Sinne wird Paul Stephenson auch weitergetragen von den exzellenten Begleitmusikern, die mit ihm hier so dicht und innig und livehaftig verwoben interagieren, dass die 15 Songs dieses Albums direkt erahnen lassen, wie ein Paul Stephenson wohl in concert klingt.

„Ein paar weitere feine Songs in makellosem Klang (...).“ (Audio)

„Die jüngste Produktion aus dem Hause Stockfisch in Northeim begeistert mit einem süchtig machenden Sound!“ (Stereo)

„Ein Album, das ebenso mit erhabener Gelassenheit wie ernster Tiefe glänzt.“ (Good Times)

Paul Stephenson, vocal, guitar
Ian Melrose, guitars, dobro, flute
Don Ross, dobro
Manfred Leuchter, accordion
Lea Morris, backing vocals
Martin Huch, pedal steel
Beo Brockhausen, soprano saxophone, flute, mbira, percussion
Alessandro Gulino, electric bass
Hans-Jörg Maucksch, fretless bass
Grischa Zepf, electric bass
Ralf Gustke, drums, percussion
Geigenhof-Quartett:
Wojtek Bolimowski, violin
Aleksandra Glinka, violin
Oksana Labach, viola
Lucile Chaubard, violoncello

DSD: Das hier angebotene DSD ist eine PCM-zu-DSD Konvertierung. Kein natives DSD! Zukünftige Stockfisch Produktionen werden mit 88,2 kHz / 24bit produziert. Die Stockfisch DMM-CD/SACD hat immer einen nativen DSD layer. Mit einem hochwertigen DSD D/A-Wandler dürfte die Klangqualität besser sein als das FLAC 44.1 kHz, 24 Bit.


Paul Stephenson
"The story of my life: I grew up in the northeast of England and my first musical heroes were the Beatles. I'm still a fan of McCartney's songs and Lennon's granny glasses. My other big hero is James Taylor. JT runs like a golden thread through my friends in musical circles (including the acoustic guitar world's best-kept secret, Chris Jones) and my musical taste - he was first produced by McCartney, worked with lots of the other great American songwriters of the 1960s and 70s and has another big fan from the northeast of England called Sting (the nearest I have to a third musical hero). I learned to play the guitar listening to my heroes plus Simon & Garfunkel, Dylan and, from this side of the Atlantic, Ralph McTell and other folkies.

I set out for Amsterdam and Europe in 1979 to make a living of sorts from music. I played mostly in bars and youth centres, with the occasional festival or concert and appearances on radio and (once) television. I played in duos, trios and bands, and made recordings whenever I could in whatever circumstances I could afford and with whichever musicians I could round up for love of music, dressing my songs up in all kinds of usually ill-fitting clothes.

But mostly I played solo, and my most popular recording was completely solo, just a guitar and a voice (A bend in the road, released on CD in 1991). I changed my name to Tom Zola for that recording, after the two great nineteenth-century novelists Thomas Hardy and Emile Zola. TZ was paul stephenson after he'd got through the daily grind of the daytime job and getting the kids from school and had time to dream a little.

Well, it was a long dream ...

I moved to France a few years ago, and work as a translator. These days, I dream mostly in a corner of the bedroom where I keep my elementary and ageing recording equipment, which I used to finally dress up my songs in comfortable clothes. Gunter Pauler, at Stockfisch Records, got to hear them and I have the feeling that the album he's about to produce is the place I've been heading for all this time ..."



Booklet for Girl with a Mirror

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