..beginnt earlier this year in a house in Tuscany. (No, do not worry, the hero does not come with a high-necked jacket and fur collar out of the door and his eyes wander not in the godforsaken Tuscan snowy lowlands as Rosamunde Pilcher) Sting and producer and conductor Bob Sadin (known by working with Milton Nasciemento and Madeleine Peroeux and Kathleen Battle) are highly concentrated at Sting's new album that deals with Christmas, weighing and folk songs. Sting goes some illustrious names on this (Chris Botti and Ibrahim Malouff, trumpets) Daniel Hope, violin, Dominic Miller, guitar, just to name a few. And to make it short, you should Stings "Songs from the Labyrinth" have liked with John Dowland compositions and can be applied to one or another musical adventure this one. Sting and his musicians interpret atmospheric Classical music that forces us to listen. Purcell's "The Cold Song" or Schubert's "organ grinder" from the Winterreise mutates into something freethinking "Hurdy Gurdy Man" in English, and "Lo How a Rose e er Blooming" turns out to tender by Julian Suttons melodeon accompanied, as ".. it has sprung a Ros" and acts not at all times "embarrassing". With "Hounds of Winter" and "Lullaby For An Anxious Child", it controls two original songs to and can also skip since the famous sparks. The opening song accompanied "Gabriel's Message" with a subtle trumpet and Fidel has to want the certain charm to engage in the song. One should the album might be called adventurous, somewhat against the grain, but certainly, if you bring your time and leisure, sexy and disturbing at the same time. For many Stings disk will disappear after the second song in the Bermuda Triangle of each CD shelf (or if enough buy time, as gifts for Omma passed for Christmas) but you should thank Sting for the courage, the spirit of adventure and the genius, something against the swim current sometimes musical (banal) power and to have made such a plate. Quote Sting (from a read interview) "I think about the things which brought me the past hat.Und wonder what I can probably expect the coming year." We are also excited and sure this album will polarize the fans ...
