The Abbasi Brothers’ instrumental rendition of “Silence” comes from Sing Me to Sleep, a collection of indie lullabies. The Abbasi Brothers – The Sound of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel cover) None of the following five versions could be considered folk-rock all of them entwine themselves with their listeners as well as the original ever did. With a song as well established as “Silence,” it’s easier for a covering artist to put his/her/their own stamp on it. Nearly half a century on, it’s stayed with all who heard it, in the way only a very few songs do, and continues to echo in many, many wells. Its dark, angst-ridden lyrics and its simple, resounding melody struck a major chord with its listeners this is a song that brought a lot of people together, not least the ones who first sang it. “The Sound of Silence” not only made it to number one, it reunited Simon and Garfunkel, who hadn’t even known of the new version’s existence until it made the charts. Tambourine Man” roaring up the charts, he thought he could overdub a rock track over the duo’s original folk song and see a similar success. But one of the tracks from their album, the side one closer, had started to get some airplay along the east coast, and it gave producer Tom Wilson an idea – with the Byrds’ “Mr. had flopped, and the duo who performed it had broken up – one went to England to perform in coffeehouses the other went back to Columbia University, where he majored in art history. An debut album called Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. And all of that is rammed home in the scintillating vocal mix, a mix that is unmistakably Simon & Garfunkel.June, 1965. It’s a young lyric, but not bad for a 21-year-old.” Not bad at all sir, that youthful blinkered beauty of not looking beyond the immediate moment makes it one of the sad song champions. There is a brilliance to the purity of the emotion the song presents which is why it sits so perfectly across the many internet mini-atrocities that it has soundtracked.Īs Paul Simon says, “Really the key to ‘The Sound of Silence’ is the simplicity of the melody and the words, which are youthful alienation. In other words, the despair that the song encapsulates is not a flat emotion, it’s different to a mellowed melancholy, there is a differing pitch to the cutting edge of despair and that is reflected in the way that the vocals and instrumentation are layered. This creates a depth and duality that feels befitting to the visceral mood of the song.
My thinking is that if you don’t have the right melody, it really doesn’t matter what you have to say, people don’t hear it.” In crafting the melody for ‘The Sound of Silence’, Simon takes on the lower vocals for the harmony while Art Garfunkel takes on the melody line. Then I got into an argument with them and said, ‘Look, I quit, and I’m not giving you my new song.’ And the song that I had just written was ‘The Sound of Silence.’ I thought, ‘I’ll just publish it myself,’ and from that point on I owned my own songs, so that was a lucky argument.”Īnd as he importantly concludes: “I think about songs that it’s not just what the words say but what the melody says and what the sound says. Adding: “I worked for them for about six months and never got a song placed, but I did give them a couple of my songs because I felt so guilty about taking their money.
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