Slowing Down the World

Chris Botti - Slowing Down the World

Slowing Down the World
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Artist: Chris Botti
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-06-22
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Irresistible Bliss
  2. The Look
  3. Drive Time
  4. In The Wee Small Hours
  5. The Open Touch
  6. Under A Painted Sky
  7. Why Not
  8. The Place Between Us
  9. Same Girl
  10. Where I'm Calling From
  11. Letting Go

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Music Review: STING'S FEATURED ARTIST
Rating: 5 Stars

Before November, 1999, I had never known about Chris Botti. That was before my attendance of a much anticipated concert date on the BRAND NEW DAY tour, Compaq's extraordinary, magical production of Sting's promotion of his latest record of the same name. Chris Botti was laudingly introduced as a featured musician by the venerable Mr Summoner to a mesmerized and irrepressible audience. Any serious devotee of Sting's knows one thing: his intimate knowledge of, and predilection for taking any instrument (whether fashioned by hands, borrowed from nature, a voice) and its proficient, then gently coaxing an unexpected, unconventional sound from that instrument and artist, now encouraging the full and rapturous melody of its possibilities, now suffusing an ethereal hush just above complete mutedness. Precisely this is the passion of Sting's music-making, and the veritable mark of his genius. Enter Chris Botti's performance.

That trumpet was woven into every number, every embodiment of each song, and Chris Botti painted the night in watercolored dreams! It is perhaps fantastical to be enamored of a particular sound, attribute it to only one source, and call it a preternatural experience, something just this side of mystical. But it rings true, the sound of Chris's trumpet, familiar to the voice of one's soul. I hear this music and I imagine that this is what water, if it were possible, would speak. The language of water is the music of Chris Botti! The impossible vastness of the sea, the trickle of a brook, a mist; that is what I hear in that trumpet. It is no wonder that a fellow admirer of his and reviewer in this category, recommends this title for driving along the Pacific Coast: the wind, the sun rushing West, and all the while, the interminable expanse of an ocean talking to you, its indelible voice a serenade in SLOWING DOWN THE WORLD as you go.

You can't always go to the ocean. You can't always stand at the edge of the sea. With SLOWING DOWN THE WORLD, you can always close your eyes and hear what it says, every time.

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Whether his trumpet is open or muted, Chris Botti is an artist of the subtlest detail, able to draw an emotion with the briefest phrase. Sometimes even a single note--a sudden high, a muffled half valve, or a burred aside in the lower register--can be telling. On Slowing Down the World, he's consciously invoking the quiet moments, creating limpid pools of melody and reflection. That attention to the nuance of mood is apparent in his solo on "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning," when he begins with a welling, rising phrase that illuminates the mood created by vocalist Sting. Botti is supported throughout by top-rank musicians like bassist Tony Levin and drummer Peter Erskine, and the London Sessions Orchestra, arranged and conducted by Anna Dudley, creates a plush carpet of sound on four tracks. Bob James contributes his distinctive electric piano lines to "The Open Touch," and Botti sings on Randy Newman's "Same Girl," adding an intimate and plaintive tone that might suggest Chet Baker, who Botti pays homage to on Playing by Heart. --Adam Rains

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