Cheb Mami, Sting - Brand New Day
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Artist: Cheb Mami, StingEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-09-28
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
- A Thousand Years
- Desert Rose
- Big Lie Small World
- After the Rain Has Fallen
- Perfect Love... Gone Wrong
- Tomorrow We'll See
- Fill Her Up
- Ghost Story
- Brand New Day
Music reviews of Brand New Day
Music Review: a singular touch of grace
Rating: 5 Stars
Despite criticism that it is eclectic to the point of distraction (sometimes expressed as `Has Sting run out of ideas?'), BRAND NEW DAY contains several of the finest songs of the entire final decade of the twentieth century. Sting being Sting, you wade through a couple of dry stretches on this album as on almost any of its level. Yet the gems are gorgeous, enduring glimpses of brilliance. The album's opening track, `A Thousand Years', may be the most splendidly lush love song to be performed in twenty years. Pulsing, obsessed with a love whose mathematics defy infinity, Sting in this profound statement of amour knows only one thing: I still love you.
No one creates a new sound like Sting. Among the not always convincing concoctions on a CD that gyrates like the stock market in a very insecure moment, storms forward `Desert Rose'. Sting and Algerian singer Cheb Mami, supported by enthralling orchestration, pull off a profoundly moving piece that must have seemed unlikely to Sting's minders when he unveiled the concept. The lyrics are as evocative as the music itself:
I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in vain
I dream of love as time runs through my hand
I dream of fire
Those dreams that tie two hearts that will never die
And near the flames
The shadows play in the shape of the man's desire
This desert rose
Whose shadow bears the secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume that would torture you more than this
And now she turns
This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams
This fire burns
I realize that nothing's as it seems
I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in vain
I dream of love as time runs through my hand
I dream of rain
I lift my gaze to empty skies above
I close my eyes
The rare perfume is the sweet intoxication of love
I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in vain
I dream of love as time runs through my hand
Sweet desert rose
Whose shadow bears the secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume that would torture you more than this
Sweet desert rose
This memory of hidden hearts and souls
This desert flower
This rare perfume is the sweet intoxication of love
It is a marvel that Sting can sing with his tongue as firmly planted in cheek as `Big Lie Small World' requires. Yet this tune, too, is vintage Sting: funny, cerebral, and self-deprecating all at once, punishing himself for a foolishly lost love and awash in a world of bigger, wealthier Alpha-males ready to harvest the affections of the woman who used once to be by his side
The aptly named `Ghost Story' is a mesmerizing tale of regret, of love handed over too soon to lawyers who know nothing of nourishing such a child. One wishes, in the face of such poetic and musical mastery, to start life over again, to stay as far from this song's conclusion as a human being can know how.
These are high points on an album that begs to be owned and turned over in the hand, held up to the light, from time to time contemplated for the treasure that is in it.
If BRAND NEW DAY signals that Sting has lost his way, then let's follow him off into the bush, for the path has grown cold, unpromising, still.
Description of Brand New Day
There is a difference between being an inspired musician and an informed musician. Sting is the latter. As always, he surrounds himself with ultratalented artists: this time around Stevie Wonder, Branford Marsalis, James Taylor, guitarist Dominic Miller, and the prince of rai Cheb Mami, fill the roster. Brand New Day exhibits about as many musical styles as there are tracks, all encased in dense, meticulous production. The album begins promisingly. "A Thousand Years" pulses atop a lush, two-note foundation. "A Desert Rose" folds trilling Algerian pop into trip-hop. Melodic, late-night jazz ballads dominate the middle portion of the collection. But Sting's preoccupation with odd-numbered time signatures prevents the songs from grooving, while the choruses are yawns. "Fill Her Up" (no, not "Fill 'Er Up"), a country tune, represents Sting at his most self-indulgent. Listening to one of the wealthiest musicians in pop singing "Got no money to invest / Got no prospect / Or education / I was lucky to get the job at this gas station" requires a heroic suspension of disbelief. The song morphs into this gospel number where Sting and a supporting chorus chant "You gotta fill 'er up with Jesus! / You gotta fill her up with life!" Who knew unleaded could be so rousing? --Beth MassaAlbum-Oriented Rock (AOR) CDs
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