Eagle-Eye Cherry - Desireless
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Artist: Eagle-Eye CherryEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-07-21
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Save Tonight
- Indecision
- Comatose (In The Arms Of Slumber)
- Worried Eyes
- Rainbow Wings
- Falling In Love
- Conversation
- When Mermaids Cry
- Shooting Up In Vain
- Permanent Tears
- Death Defied By Will
- Desireless
Free Music Notes for Desireless
Free Music Review: A fine debut.
Hit: 4 Stars
In the years that have passed since the release of his debut album, "Desireless", Eagle-Eye Cherry has faded from public consciousness, due no doubt to Sony's not picking up his later albums more than anything else, but in 1998, it seemed you couldn't go very long without hearing "Save Tonight" on the radio.
Certainly Cherry had the pedigree for his position-- his father Don was a jazz and world music pioneer, sister Neneh had some success on the alt-hip-hop circuit, sister Titiyo is evidentally huge over in Sweden (truthfully, I've never heard of her) and brother David Ornette is a jazz and improvised music artist. Eagle-Eye Cherry (named because he opened one eye when as a baby he first looked at his father) got his start as a drummer for his father, spent a stint as an actor and after his father's death, retreated to Sweden where he began seriously composing music.
The resulting debut album, "Desireless", falls in the alternative pop/singer songwriter category, although Cherry's music has a number of edges to its sound-- his influences clearly trace into dozens of genres. As an arranger, this lends some more weight and depth to his music, providing it with a certain something that's a bit inescapable that separates Cherry from the other phenomenal songwriters.
At its best, the album is brilliant-- whether striking upbeat and yet moody (leadoff single "Save Tonight"), guitar-driven rock ("Indecision"), dark, driven folk/hip hop ("Shooting Up in Vain"), or delicate, tender and seemingly painfully pretty ("Comotose"). This all mixes with a superb deuet with Titiyo (the superb "Worried Eyes") and a tribute to his late father in recording one of his composition (jazz-drenched "Desireless"). At times, the album fumbles a bit, either being a bit unmemorable ("Permenant Tears") or just somewhat mediocre ("Falling in Love Again"), but somehow Cherry finds a way to pull off the weaker melodies and lyrics nicely ("When Mermaids Cry").
It's not quite the masterpiece one suspects he has in him, but "Desireless" is definitely a worthy pickup. Recommended.
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The offspring of jazz-trumpet great Don Cherry and half-brother of both Neneh Cherry and Swedish pop diva Titiyo (who duets with her brother on "Worried Eyes"), Eagle-Eye proves that we are not who we're related to. He was born in Stockholm to Cherry and Swedish mixed-media artist Moki, and one might suppose a member of this clan to be as innovative as the rest of his brood, especially given such an idiosyncratic moniker. But it turns out that that's the only eccentric thing about this musician. Cherry offers up a low-key, melodic diary of tales of his misspent youth in New York. And despite the music's soft-focus part-Cat Stevens, part-Ben Harper leanings, occasionally you realize that Eagle-Eye must have pasted posters of Ozzy Osbourne and Jimi Hendrix on his bedroom wall. "Indecision" (supposedly a rejoinder to Stockholm neo-Nazi "White Noise" bands like Swastika) rides on a searing Richie Blackmore lick. "Save Tonight" is a bittersweet reworking of Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" theme. The title song updates his late father's "Desireless," which is revitalized via sparse piano, a haunting trumpet, and Cherry's hypnotic, repetitive vocals. Here it's clear that, even though he is dabbling in the shoals of alt-folk-rock, Eagle-Eye can claim a limb on the family tree anytime he wants. --Jaan UhelszkiAlternative Rock Music CDs
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