Paul Stephenson – Girl with a Mirror (2014/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Paul Stephenson – Girl with a Mirror (2014/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:54 minutes | 629 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stockfisch Records

A decade of life with all its peaks and troughs in roughly one nanosecond. Quantum physics? Sorcery? Not quite: You can always count on a man – Paul Stephenson! No, his new Album is NOT Light Green Ball – it’s „Girl With A Mirror“.

We may wistfully revisit our youth – but no-one can ever bring it back. Not even an artist can. Although he has an advantage there, because he can transform the vicissitudes of life, losses, disillusionment and the tidemarks of time into art. Even more is being asked of him – because as an artist, he has no choice.

While Stephenson’s earlier works exude the excitement of “something’s gonna happen”, the sweet bird of youth is “on the way to Santiago” – since then, life seems to have taken the artist on the long and rocky road. In the same way, „Girl With A Mirror“ is darker; more composed, and more reflective – but hope does not desert us. In music and lyrics, Stephenson transforms the undoubtedly more sombre aspects of life, loss, disappointment and disillusionment, into pure poetry, lights up the pastel blue of an Amsterdam sky, and the dark clouds are, ultimately, not the last word.

And, what’s more: Paul Stephenson is accompanied – in the true sense of the word – supported by the outstanding musicians whose interaction is intimately interwoven in such a way that the whole is more than the sum of its parts, and the 15 songs of this album already give us a vivid impression of what Paul Stephenson sounds, and feels like, in concert – and what it’s like to be there.

Girl With A Mirror: In the mirror of the mermaid-like beauty of the girl featured on the album cover we just read one word: Masterpiece.

Tracklist:

1. Paul Stephenson – The Silver String (03:23)
2. Paul Stephenson – God’s Upstairs (03:48)
3. Paul Stephenson – The Frozen Bird (02:46)
4. Paul Stephenson – Earthward Bound (04:24)
5. Paul Stephenson – Windmill Sails (04:24)
6. Paul Stephenson – Rainy Day Man (04:08)
7. Paul Stephenson – Back Where You Belong (03:33)
8. Paul Stephenson – I’m Not a Thing (05:16)
9. Paul Stephenson – To Be There (03:56)
10. Paul Stephenson – Now so Far (04:43)
11. Paul Stephenson – Girl with a Mirror (04:09)
12. Paul Stephenson – Playing Neptune (03:04)
13. Paul Stephenson – Only Everything (02:56)
14. Paul Stephenson – Eyes Will Be Open (03:48)
15. Paul Stephenson – Lost out on Below (03:28)

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