Under African Skies - Paul Simon Information

Acousticness
46%
Danceability
54%
Energy
68%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
22%
Loudness
86%
Speechiness
5%
Valence
65%
Popularity
Loudness
-8.593 dB

Summary

Paul Simon made "Under African Skies" available on August 12, 1986. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:37, the duration of this song is pretty average compared to other songs. This track is safe for children and doesn't appear to contain any foul language, since the "Explicit" tag was not present in this track. The track order of this song in Paul Simon's "Graceland (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)" album is number 7 out of 17. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. Under African Skies is average in popularity right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

Under African Skies BPM

We consider the tempo marking of Under African Skies by Paul Simon to be Adagio (slowly with great expression) because the track has a tempo of 74 BPM, a half-time of 37BPM, and a double-time of 148 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Under African Skies Key

This song has a musical key of A♭ Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 4B. So, the perfect camelot match for 4B would be either 4B or 5A. While, 5B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 1B and a high energy boost can either be 6B or 11B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 4A or 3B will give you a low energy drop, 7B would be a moderate one, and 2B or 9B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 1A allows you to change the mood.

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ISRC
USSM11002275
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records

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