Art Garfunkel & Art Garfunkel Jr. announce first collaborative album
Multiple GRAMMY winner Art Garfunkel and his son Art Garfunkel Jr. announce their first collaborative studio album. ‘Father and Son’, set to arrive on November 8, 2024, via BMG is a stunning covers album that features a selection of personal favorites from the last century. First single ‘Time After Time’ (Cyndi Lauper) is the first taste of the album.
“‘Time After Time’ is one of my all-time favorites from the 80s,” says Garfunkel Jr. about the new, epically orchestrated rendition of the iconic hit, first released by Lauper four decades ago. “It’s a song that fits perfectly on this album – because it also deals with our relationship, this unique bond between my father and me. From one generation to the next, it’s about time passing, about passing on the baton, but here we are working together in the studio… and thus begins the next cycle, as my father takes this exciting next step with me,” says the 33-year-old.
“It felt like a dream. It was simply quite wonderful. I love working with him,” adds NYC hitmaking veteran Art Garfunkel, who launched his career with Simon & Garfunkel in the late 1950s, referring to their shared time in the studio. “I like to say my son is a better singer than I am. I mean, I’m pretty good… but he is better.”
“We were going for a real modern orchestral vibe, with lots of strings,” they say about the new project’s lush and lavish sound. In the studio, they enlisted three international greats to capture the unique father-son dynamic: Trusted hit producer Felix Gauder (Pet Shop Boys, Jimmy Somerville) was joined by top-notch Italian string arranger Davide Rossi (Coldplay, Alicia Keys) and famed UK studio wizard Ash Howes (Kylie Minogue, Ellie Goulding). As they were finishing off the album, Garfunkel & Garfunkel booked another studio for a video shoot – which turned out to be the very studio where Cyndi Lauper recorded the original version of “Time After Time”…
“This one is truly a father-son project, it’s all about this unique connection,” Art Jr. adds. “We recorded a dozen of our most cherished songs. I brought more of the 80s influences into the project, and my father brought more of the Great American Songbook – wonderful songs from the 1940s and so on. These two influences came together in a pretty exciting way. Overall, it’s definitely an expression of our bond.” Further album highlights include timeless songs by The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel and Cat Stevens.
Art Garfunkel Jr. was born in Manhattan in 1990, the first child of Kathryn and Art Garfunkel. Spending most of his childhood and youth in the United States, he often accompanied his father on tour even as a child. After moving to Berlin as a teenager, he toured extensively with his father in 2018 and 2019, followed by the release of his first two solo albums, Wie Du and Evergreen which hit the top 10 and the top 15, respectively, in Germany.
Art Garfunkel launched his career in 1957 as one half of famed US folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, founded together with songwriter Paul Simon. Global hit singles such as ‘Sound of Silence’, ‘Scarborough Fair’, ‘Mrs. Robinson’, ‘The Boxer’ and ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ have since become part of the canon of western pop history. After the duo split up in 1970, Garfunkel not only landed massive solo hits (e.g. ‘Bright Eyes’), but also acted in various Hollywood films. Having shared stages with Paul Simon occasionally over the last decades (their 1981 Central Park performance in front of a 500k+ audience comes to mind), he’s recently been performing with his son, Art Garfunkel Jr.
With this latest chapter, Garfunkel & Garfunkel celebrate their unique connection: The new album Father And Son is set to arrive on November 8th, 2024.
