Sting - ...all this time

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The album starts fairly dark - just like his last solo album Brand New Day - but here with the usual closer Fragile. The song is really beautifully reinvented - it's little bit slowed down, with a brand new middle 8 in it and a wonderful chodo - really great. Anyway this version, which is on this album was recorded in the studio later that year. If you want to hear the original version, which was played that day, try the DVD ... All This Time .

The next song is a medley of "A thousand years" and "Perfect love ... Gone Wrong" - in "A Thousand Years" there is a little less Kipper and more Jason Rebello than in the original - and the whole song is a little bit jazzyer, which ends to "Perfect Love..." and then in the end of the song it goes back to "A Thousand..." - really wonderful idea how to connect two songs - it reminds me of circle theme, which Sting uses so much these years.

The fourth track is "All This Time" - a completely new version - something far from the usual live BND concert version (which is anyway great), but it "works" here.

Then comes the only Mercury Falling song - "The hounds of winter". The song is little bit faster than the original and "richer". Probably one of the best tracks on this album, although (not yet) my favorite.

"Mad about you" - though not played originally on concert (I think it is the verion from the day before), this version is really suberb - "upbeating" rhytm, haunting lyrics as always and more "arabesque" feeling in it. Perhaps the best verion of this track you can find.

Then there comes the first Police track - "Don't stand so close to me" - Sting here shows why he was and still remains a great musician and songwriter - the chorus is so haunting that you may catch yourself hours later that you just simply "can't get it of your head". Interesting version - "something else and new".

This song then "melts" into "When we dance" - my favorite on the album. Wonderful chello (Jaques Morelenbaum) and so brrrrriliant interpretation of the song by Sting that it brings me into tears every time I hear it.

"Dienda" is a new track (although you maybe heard it on some ocassions in 99 played with Branford Marsalis).It's a "re-interpratation" of the originally Kenny Kirkland's "Dienda" with Sting's lyrics - by the way so great that you can clearly imagine the picture of young Kenny playing on piano on Brooklyn Street. Haunting.

"She did anyway" - there comes the song which just can't be missing from the playlist in some "tango" version - yessss, Roxanne. Sometimes I think that it's such an old (don't get me wrong) song and it was interpreted in so many ways that the person of Roxanne had just jumped out of the song and she had started living her own life. In the middle of the song there is a change of mood and the song ends with a trombone solo !!! (Clark Gayton). When I first heard it I've nearly fall down from the chair ! :)

"They can't kill our joy" . There comes "If you love somebody" with great "sonic" ending with so much energy in it that you can nearly see as it converts into light and "shines into space". You'll fall in love with this version if you like the original.

"Brand new day" continues in the same mood with a bit of blues feeling. ...:)

"Fields of gold" is a little bit slower than the original with both chello and guitar (as always Dominic Miller) solos between the verses. Really nice version but... they can do it better - anyway still great.

There comes a time for some jazz - "Moon over Bourbon street" with some catchy piano (Jason Rebello). You can almost feel that you are in a little jazz bar with cigarete smoke everywhere around and of course with a band of great young talented and unknown :) musicians. The song suddenly stops in the middle (why?) and there's a time for two classics :

"If I ever loose my faith in you" - in this song you can clearly hear how had Sting's voice improved over the years. Like a fine glass of wine.Another favorite track of mine (like the whole album)

"Every breath you take" - what new could I say - an all-time classic and perhaps the best pop song of the 80's (and 90's ...) closes the session in great style - uplifting and full of joy.(though still ambiguous a bit)

What is really intereSTING and wonderful about this album is the clarity of the sound. It's really as others here say one of the best live "gigs" ever recorded (IMHO). Playing it is like sitting with all these great musicians in one room- you laugh with them the same way as you are angry, sad or cry.

As you know, this album was recorded on 9/11 and that's the reason there are more dark songs. I think it was a right step to do that and if I look back these days (which are still not so far) I think it was also a good decision to play the concert and let the healing power of music work. Maybe there comes a day when other wonderful pieces (Ghost story, Every little thing...) will be played as they should be.

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