John Marr
speaker
104 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 25 Jul
John Marr’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
Paul Simon was in Dublin three months ago.
He was and was fantastic, by the way.
Yeah, you had people like Peter Gabriel, who founded the WOMAD Festival in England, which was bringing artists from all over the world to play there.
You had the likes of Brian Eno and David Byrne of Talking Heads, who were...
experimenting with different sounds, particularly polyrhythms from Africa.
And today it's extremely commonplace.
But back then it was still, it's just all these mixtures of kind of multiple percussionists kind of playing at different stages.
It requires extraordinary musicianship, but it's completely thrilling when it happens.
And it was quite unusual in the Western canon.
Yeah, to Western ears.
But of course,
These kind of sounds that existed for centuries in various parts of the world.
In about 1984, Paul Simon discovers kind of essentially township music.
You know, he's in New York and he's hearing these buskers play this kind of extraordinary sound.
And he's thinking, I need something new, because, of course, we know that Paul Simon could just pen these extraordinary songs.
particularly about kind of interior monologues.
But you mentioned Kylie there.
All artists want to change their sound, want to do something different because, of course, everybody could just keep doing the same thing, essentially.
They want to innovate.
And he certainly did.
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