A lot of fire and tea for the heart

Year after year, the Winter friend starts to get a comforting gut feeling when the first morning of cloudy twilight are haunted, the unmistakable smell of warm air heating advertise a Wraps and the activity areas of department stores first Christmas goodies. To put it vorwegzunehemen, a thoroughbred Christmas album you do not look on this page. With a season album we have to do it anyway. If you look at this year's publications in this sector to stand the friend of quality music well 2 names particularly striking. Bob Dylan's "Christmas in the Heart" program you are viewing and the album here grade. Ask other players could not be both. Gets Dylan Album grade for the 50s typical homey Christmas Eves in the US, he evokes here the (rightly nostalgic vereehrten) prophecies of pre-consumer Christmas spirits up, so we take with Sting to even older ghosts. Which are sometimes not so friendly and suitable product, would not enjoy with Nat King Cole on hot chestnuts and yet teaches us Sting better if we think we could do without them. If you walk in a frosty night through lonely country lanes and feeding before his MP3 player with this album we begin to discover it in much deeper ways. This winter album shows so many things that one wanted to reveal no other Christmas album before. It's relaxing, soothing and exhorting simultaneously. An appeal not only the recent past to look at. "Soul Cake" "Christmas at Sea" and "The Snow it Melts the soonest" are beautiful and spooky comforting ways, which has for too long seen no more. Musically and sound Sting moved on the usual high level. The Steerpike Studios give the whole an unusual depth.
I know that a lot of reviews in prestigious journals have not so euphorically reacted to this album, but advise everyone to to form his own opinion. Sting is his turn to "more intellectual" music styles always met with skepticism or amusement. I myself have never held much of it and am of the opinion that example. John Dowland its interpretations also be in much more significant artistic interpretations. Nevertheless, I want the artists to think outside the box and realize everything you really want. If the result sounds like this album, I am all the more.
I nevertheless depart a star with all the enthusiasm I had to think twice, but did not get around it. As an old jazz musician I can with the best will not bear that has at the very beswingten number "The Burning Babe" Sting managed to win with Kenny Garrett and Jack DeJohnette two absolute luminaries for his album, but they are almost strangled by the Circumcision of the piece to 2:46! If it would match the number OK, it need not always be 10 minutes improvisations. But just when something gets going, what you hear there ??? A fade out !!! Call me after a stubborn, ignorant fanatic purists or whatever ... but I can not stand :-)
Allen a beautiful Christmas season. Do you find any time for yourself.