Artist : Sting

Album : 57Th & 9TH

Release Date : 11-11-2016

Added : 21-12-2016

As they say on TV, no transition after 'Freedom Call', here is the key to any 'Sting' that after a wonderful album of classical music from baroque songs 'Songs From The Labyrinth' (2006), another with among others of the hymns 'If On A Winter's Night' (2009) and a tribute to the shipyards 'Newcastle', 'The Last Ship' (2013) which will be the subject of a musical Here it is in 2016 with a new album that comes out just the day before his tribute concert at the 'Bataclan'. Entry, with 'I can't Stop Thinking About You', it feels go back some 40 years ago with a certain group 'Police' and 'Message In The Bottle' running loop on our decks. '50,000' is a moving tribute to the stars of the rock disappeared too early. With the following titles, found his leg of the 1990s like these pop ballads 'Down, Down, Down' or 'One Fine Day' and its ecological message. And then, 'Sting' is also hot news and the peaceful fighter who denounces with as only weapons his words: 'If You can't Love Me' with his crescendo that grabs us and his message simply filled with good sense: "If you don't love me that way, then you must leave me." and then, 'Inshallah', recounting the drama of migrants, title stripped of great intensity where it borrows a quarter tone of circumstance in the chorus; the album ends with 'Empty Chair' title poignant on the memory after death and, initially, inspired by the journalist 'James Foley' execution. In summary, we find a wide range of 40 years of diverse influences and the 'Sting' engaged and sensitive that makes an artist citizen of the world witness of our time with this latest installment of the very successful...
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Line Up / Musicians

Sting (Vocal, Bass), Dominic Miller (Guitar), Vinnie Colaiuta (Drums) + Guests : Diego Navaira (the Last Bandoleros), Jerry Fuentes (the Last Bandoleros), Josh Freese (Drums), Lyle Workman (Guitar)