Posts tagged Imaginary train ride

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Posted 3 years ago

A Train Ride Into The Bowels Of Your Imagination

Simon & Garfunkel - A Sound-Poem On the Underground Wall (Musicina Blender Mix)

Here’s a tune that still grabs me after 40 years. (Like most Baby Boomers attending college in the late 60’s, S&G were in high rotation on the dormroom turntable).  The song is a quick sketch, and portrays an introverted, aspiring graffiti artist, trying in the simplest way possible to “make his mark”. The tune ends with the killer line, “To seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night.”

For this mix, I used the live 1970 S&G recording of the tune, mixed with a few bars of Pat Metheny’s “Last Train Home”, blended with a hodgepodge of field recordings that I’ve collected through the years.  Trying to provide an ambient context to the lyrical Paul Simon-penned folk tune.