|
AUSTRALIAN IMPORT
Give Sting credit for craftily averting the downside of worldwide pop stardom: finding yourself at 50 playing decades-old hits at some dusty state fair. The trick, of course, is to have your artistic cake and eat it, too; and that's just what the singer has done--reinvented himself first as a coolly crooning jazz head, then infused that sensibility with some spiritually vague Euro-trance affectations. Sting's Brand New Day touring band languorously reworks 15 songs before a couple hundred handpicked fans during a moonlit Tuscan evening--it's a live shot that feels funkier and less self-conscious than its '80s predecessor, Bring on the Night. While familiar solo-career nuggets like "Set Them Free," "Fields of Gold," and "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" have insightful new shadings, it's the sparingly doled Police hits that seem rebuilt from the ground up; "Don't Stand So Close to Me" and "Roxanne" are now hued with sad cellos and weary vocals hinting that even sexual tension eventually leads to fatigue. Tasteful, spare, and nearly performance-perfect, ...All This Time is still a far cry from the jazz of Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme, and if you hear a quiet, English-accented chuckle behind you in line at the bank, don't turn around
Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed
TRACK LISTINGS
1 Fragile 3:24
2 A Thousand Years 3:02
3 Perfect Love...Gone Wrong 5:25
4 All This Time 4:54
5 The Hounds Of Winter 4:29
6 Mad About You (Album Version (from "...All This Time")) 3:37
7 Don't Stand So Close To Me 2:16
8 When We Dance 6:00
9 Dienda 3:12
10 Roxanne 3:38
11 If You Love Somebody Set Them Free 4:16
12 Brand New Day 4:46
13 Fields Of Gold 3:39
14 Moon Over Bourbon Street 4:01
15 If I Ever Lose My Faith In You 4:29
16 Every Breath You Take 5:04
|