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    Sting - Songs from the Labyrinth (2006) [Dowland Anniversary Edition]

    Posted By: v3122
    Sting - Songs from the Labyrinth (2006) [Dowland Anniversary Edition]

    Sting - Songs from the Labyrinth (2006)
    EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
    Deutsche Grammophon, 06025 374 1453 | ~ 424 or 191 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 298 Mb
    Classical Crossover / Renaissance Music / Folk | 32 Tracks

    Casual pronouncements are made every so often that the lute songs (the lute is a plucked stringed instrument, an early cousin to the guitar) and madrigals of Elizabethan and Jacobean England were the popular music of their day. And Sting, who alludes to the likes of Vladimir Nabokov in his lyrics, is hardly uneducated in the legacy of fine arts, and he has a certain cerebral, inward sadness that matches the dominant mood of English music around 1600 well enough. Thus some might easily have thought it would be a short leap from Sting's own music to the lute songs of John Dowland (1563-1626). But the leap is anything but short, and Sting gets credit for having thought out fully the problems in making it. It is not just the issue of what pianist Katia Labèque, one of the classical musicians who introduced Sting to Dowland's music, called his "unschooled tenor" – Dowland's songs are not really difficult. It is the great divide between rock (and other traditions ultimately rooted in Africa) and the European tradition: speaking in generalities, the former prizes "noise" – sound extraneous to the pitch and to the intended timbre of an instrument or voice – as a structural element, whereas in the latter it is strenuously eliminated. Sting's voice has plenty of "noise." The listener oriented toward classical music will object to its being there; the rock listener, noting that Sting is singing very quietly, may wonder why there isn't more of it.

    Why, then, does this album work well on the whole? The short answer is that Sting took 20 years to think about how to interpret the refined melancholy of Dowland songs like Come, heavy sleep. His booklet notes tell the long story of how he happened to make this album, and it's quite an interesting one, involving a "labyrinth" of encounters with Labèque, with the Bosnian lutenist Edin Karamazov who performs on this album, with a friend who gave Sting a lute inlaid with a labyrinth design based on a pattern in the floor of Chartres Cathedral in France (Sting later reproduced the maze in his garden at home), and finally with a Swiss voice teacher who schooled him in pitch precision and the occasional octave run. Sting constructs two crossover points between this temporally remote music and his popular audience. First, he intersperses the songs with selections from Dowland's letters. This has surely been done before, at Elizabethan dinners and the like, and for modern listeners it has the beneficial effect of situating Dowland's music at the center of the social and political life of its time. Sting's second crossover point is more radical: he replaces the melody line in a few of Dowland's verses with multitracked harmonies, apparently consisting entirely of his own voice. These sections appear rather randomly, but they do break up the texture in a way that suggests an additional dimension of modern perspective.

    Sting passes a key test for vocal music of any kind: he understands and means what he is singing. The real gloomfests among Dowland's songs – like Flow my tears and the final In darkness let me dwell – lose none of their power in Sting's performances. And he brings something of his own sense of humor to the lighter ones; a certain smirk in his reading of Come again suggests that he is aware an audience of Dowland's time would have heard the line "To see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die with thee again" as a sexual allusion. He sounds like himself, even while purging rock's blues-based treatment of pitch from his singing; he also takes a few turns on the large archlute. And Karamazov proves an ideal collaborator, creating a sharp, edgy tone that stands up to Sting's rough voice. In making Dowland's songs his own, Sting has accomplished something that really has never been done before, and perhaps he'll show some of his own fans that Renaissance music is more than an accompaniment for silly jousting competitions – it is a labyrinth that leads us toward the roots of our own culture.

    by James Manheim, AMG
    Sting - Songs from the Labyrinth (2006) [Dowland Anniversary Edition]


    Sting - Songs from the Labyrinth (2006):

    Sting - Songs from the Labyrinth (2006) [Dowland Anniversary Edition]

    Tracklist:

    01. Walsingham
    02. Can she excuse my wrongs
    03. "Ryght honorable: as I have bin most bounde unto your honor…"
    04. Flow my tears (Lachrimae)
    05. Have you seen the bright lily grow (R. Johnson)
    06. "…Then in time passing on Mr. Johnson died…"
    07. The Most High and Mighty Christianus the Fourth, King of Denmark, His G
    08. The lowest trees have tops
    09. "…And accordinge as I desired ther cam a letter to me out of Germany"
    10. Fine knacks for ladies
    11. "…From thence I went to the Landgrave of Hessen…"
    12. Fantasy
    13. Come, heavy sleep
    14. Forlorn Hope Fancy
    15. "…And from thence I had great desire to see Italy…"
    16. Come again
    17. Wilt thou unkind thus reave me
    18. "…After my departure I called to mynde our conference…"
    19. Weep you no more, sad fountains
    20. My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home
    21. Clear or cloudy
    22. "…men say that the Kinge of Spain is making gret preparation…"
    23. In darkness let me dwell
    From St. Luke's Concerette:
    24. Flow my tears (Lachrimae) (live)
    25. The lowest trees have tops (live)
    26. Fantasy (live)
    27. Come again (live)
    28. Have you seen the bright lily grow (live)
    29. In darkness let me dwell (live)
    30. Hellhound On My Trail (live)
    31. Message In A Bottle (live)
    32. Fields Of Gold (live)

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