“Dazzling Blue” by Paul Simon

"Dazzling Blue" turns up on So Beautiful or So What, the twelfth solo album Paul Simon put out on Hear Music on April 8, 2011, and the one that reunited him with producer Phil Ramone. Simon went back to writing the old way, just him and an acoustic guitar, then let the studio experiments pile on, cutting most of it in a small cottage at his home in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Here the album's Indian-style percussion comes from Karaikudi Mani on mridangam (he adds a vocal, too), V.B. Madhusadanan on tabla and Ghatam Suresh on ghatam, sharing the space with Gabe Witcher's fiddle, Josh Swift's resonator guitar and backing voices from Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. Simon plays acoustic and electric guitar, glockenspiel and percussion, and co-produced with Ramone, who mixed it; Andy Smith recorded it.

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