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All rights reserved.Sting - The Dream Of The Blue Turtles (CD 1998)
| Track Listing 1. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free 2. Love Is The Seventh Wave 3. Russians 4. Children's Crusade 5. Shadows In The Rain 6. We Work The Black Seam 7. Consider Me Gone 8. Dream Of The Blue Turtles 9. Moon Over Bourbon Street 10. Fortress Around Your Heart 11. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (video)
Album Notes Personnel: Sting (vocals, guitar, bass); Branford Marsalis (saxophone, percussion); Frank Opolko (trombone); Kenny Kirkland (keyboards); Danny Quatrochi (Synclavier synthesizer, background vocals); Darryl Jones (bass); Omar Hakim (drums); Eddy Grant (congas); Dolette McDonald, Janice Pendarvis, Pete Smith, Elliot Jones, Jane Alexander, Vic Garbarini, The Nannies Chorus, Rosemary Purt, Stephanie Crewson, Joe Sumner, Kate Sumner, Michael Sumner (background vocals).Sting had a lot to prove on his first post-Police effort, and he proved himself up to the task of establishing a distinctive identity as a solo artist. Instead of replicating his reggae-tinged Police style, he ventured into new realms, hiring top drawer American jazz musicians like Branford Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland and drum monster Omar Hakim to accompany him on the kind of harmonically sophisticated (though decidedly non-jazz) tunes he'd begun working on towards the end of the Police's lifetime (see SYNCHRONICITY). There's still a touch of reggae on the open-hearted "Love Is the Seventh Wave," and even a funked-up version of the formerly abstract Police tune "Shadows In The Rain," but most of the tunes here (except the pop smash "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" are the kind of literate, adult-friendly sophisto-pop that would become a template for his subsequent solo recordings. BLUE TURTLES still stands as one of his most memorable albums. Editorial Reviews CMJ (01/05/2004) | |||||||||||||||
Reviews  Dream Of The Blue TurtlesReview created: 08/08/06 by:  From being a fan of The Police when I was young I followed Sting's solo career from the beginning and always meant to buy his debut solo album. I was over the moon when I got it as I had it on tape, but not cd. It is an exceptional album containing such beautiful tracks as Moon Over Bourbon Street and the classic Russians. Every song on this CD is good and I never tire of listening to it. If you like Stings later work then you will love this. He is a wonderful lyricist. Review ID: 10000000001553787 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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