Stewart Copeland - The Stewart Copeland Anthology
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Artist: Stewart CopelandEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-08-14
Music Label: Koch Records
Soundtracks:
- Too Kool to Kalypso
- Don't Box Me In [From Rumble Fish]
- Tulsa Tango [From Rumble Fish]
- Koteja [From the Rhythmatist]
- Serengeti Long Walk [From the Rhythmatist]
- Equaliser (Main Title)
- Anacott Steel [from Wall Street]
- Slither
- Night Drive [From Very Bad Things]
- Taxi Ride Home [From West Beirut]
- Bill Is Dead (Main Theme) [From the Pallbearer]
- Wield the Spade
- Look Up
- Rain [From Spyro the Dragon]
- Childhood Friends [From the Leopard Son]
- Mud Lions [From the Leopard Son]
- Pizzica Degli Ucci
- Chrystal/Drive Daisy/End Title [From Dead Like Me]
- George Trip/End Montage/End Title [From Dead Like Me]
- Big Drum Tribe
- Regret [From Metropolis]
Music reviews of The Stewart Copeland Anthology
Music Review: From Klark Kent to Gizmo, and a little of everything in between
Rating: 5 Stars
This long-overdue collection from composer/musician Stewart Copeland provides both an excellent overview of his work for those unfamiliar with it outside of the Police, as well as enough previously unreleased material to justify the purchase for those who have been fans for decades. With so many people rediscovering The Police this year thanks to their reunion tour, now is an excellent time to explore the vast catalog of music created by the band's founder and drummer in the years since The Police were last on the scene.
Selections included from various albums and soundtracks are sometimes obvious--such as the Rumble Fish soundtrack collaboration with Stan Ridgway, "Don't Box Me In", and "Serengeti Long Walk" from The Rhythmatist featuring Stewart's classic deadpan narration and killer drums on the intro. Other times the choices are more obscure and seemingly personal on Stewart's part: "Too Kool To Kalypso", for instance, a Klark Kent track which he admits in the liner notes was Klark's "first flop". "Anacott Steel", from the Wall Street soundtrack, is a great sample of Stewart's mid/late-80s electronic-driven soundtrack work, complete with percussive barking sound effects to mirror the dog-eat-dog world of the movie's protagonists. It's a shame the original version of the Equalizer theme is missing, although the Orchestralli version (from Orchestralli (Bonus Dvd)) is excellent too, showcasing how the heavy synthesizer-sound of the original could be interpreted so well to a live orchestra. Two selections are included from The Leopard Son soundtrack, a great choice as it is one of my favorites of Stewart's scores from the 90's and showcases his wonderful flair for capturing diverse moods from the playful whimsy of "Childhood Friends" to life-threatening danger of "Mud Lions". Of Stewart's two post-Police trios, Animal Logic is absent from the anthology but Oysterhead is represented by "Wield the Spade" from The Grand Pecking Order, a quirky if appropriately dark song about Romanian dictator Ceausescu.
Several tracks included here were previously only available on the promotional cd "from Rumble Fish to Gridlock'd". These include "Slithered", a demo for the film Sliver which was never used, although it was later turned into "Stalin's Sultry Serenade" for Stewart's Orchestralli project. "Bill is Dead" from The Pallbearer is here included in a longer form than on the Gridlock'd collection cd, a definite bonus as several of the shorter soundtrack selections here from films like Very Bad Things and West Beirut leave me wanting much more than a minute or two snippet. There is even one track from his very popular scoring work for the Spyro video games, as well as a selection from "La Notte della Taranta" which has only been available on the import cd Live in Melpignano 17 08 2003 previously.
Indeed, my one main complaint about the collection--besides there being so many other excellent soundtracks and projects that are omitted such as Wide Sargasso Sea and his collaboration with Adam Ant on Out of Bounds--is that it left me wanting so much more. I would give anything for a full soundtrack album from Dead Like Me, for example, as much as I love the two selections included here. "Big Drum Tribe", from his Italy-based project Gizmo, is a great rocking, almost prog-sounding track and having heard some other Gizmo numbers elsewhere I'd love to hear a full cd or live performance recording from them someday. There's also "Look Up", a track from a "solo album" that apparently never quite came together, a shame given the potential suggested here.
The cd itself is nicely packaged with comments from Stewart about each track. Now here's to hoping we'll see an expanded boxed set someday that includes more of the wonderful work that couldn't fit on this one cd!
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STEWART COPELAND The Anothology (2007 US 21-track CD compilation album AUTOGRAPHED by the ex-Police member and drumming extraordinaire across the front cover of the digipak picture sleeve signed clearly in black marker pen in the bottom left-hand corner. Providing a brilliant overview of Copelands post-Police solo material work with Oysterhead collaborations including Ray Lema as well as music from his Klark Kent pseudonym. The gatefold sleeve is showing a little marking from storage but id otherwise in great shape - this signed copy is a superb find for Copeland fanatics as well as lovers of The Police! KOC-CD-4411)International CDs
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