Sting - The Dream Of The Blue Turtles - MFSL

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RELEASE:
ORIGINAL Released in 1985
Produced by Producer(s) Sting, Peter Smith
MFSL UDCD 528

The Dream of the Blue Turtles is the first solo album released by Sting. It includes ten tracks and was released in 1985, only a year after The Police had unofficially broken up. This album showcases Sting's abilities as a musician in the jazz and classical genres. There are also hints of Sting wanting fans to view him as more than just a member of The Police, as evidenced by the intentional and sudden contrast of musical style from his former band. The album includes some of the strongest political songs from Sting, including "Russians", "Children's Crusade", and "We Work The Black Seam".

It also includes Sting's first hit after The Police, "If You Love Someone Set Them Free", and a jazzed-up reworking of The Police song, "Shadows In The Rain".

Track listing:
All songs written by Sting except as noted:

01 "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" – 4:14
02 "Love Is The Seventh Wave" – 3:30
03 "Russians" (Prokofiev, Sting) – 3:57
04 "Children's Crusade" – 5:00
05 "Shadows In The Rain" – 4:56
06 "We Work The Black Seam" – 5:40
07 "Consider Me Gone" – 4:21
08 "The Dream Of The Blue Turtles" – 1:15
09 "Moon Over Bourbon Street" – 3:59
10 "Fortress Around Your Heart" – 4:48

CREDITS:

Sting – vocals, guitar, double bass
Omar Hakim – drums
Darryl Jones – bass guitar
Kenny Kirkland – keyboards
Branford Marsalis – saxophones

SINGLES:

"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (1985) #3 US Hot 100, #26 UK Singles Chart
"Russians" (1985) #16 US Hot 100, #12 UK Singles Chart
"Fortress Around Your Heart (1985) #8 US Hot 100
"Love Is The Seventh Wave (1985) #17 US Hot 100

EDITORIAL REVIEWS:

From one spin of The Dream of the Blue Turtles, Sting's first solo release, it's obvious that for him there would be life beyond the Police. Teamed with a band of top jazz players, he presents his musical visions that had gone unrealized while he was still constrained by his former ensemble. In style and subject matter, it's a decidedly diverse collection of songs and the playing is excellent throughout. The love songs are mostly focused on endings or escapes, and it's quite possible to interpret much of the imagery in reference to the bitter breakup of the Police. Sting's concern with history and politics is in evidence: he makes a father's plea for sanity and restraint in the nuclear age, takes up for the U.K.'s much-abused coal miners, and relates the savage stupidity of World War I to the destructive effects of adolescent heroin addiction. Songs that seem elaborately constructed and recorded contrast with others that are presented as one-take jams. Seen as a whole, The Dream of the Blue Turtles is eclectic, ambitious--sometimes pretentious--but altogether worth owning. --Al Massa

Having shed the pop shackles of his popular British rock trio the Police, Sting released a 1985 solo debut foreshadowing both the artistic quality and the pretentiousness of his lucrative solo career. Accompanied by saxophonist Branford Marsalis and other superb players, the singer/bassist pulls off an occasionally excellent mixture of pop and jazz--the radio hits "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" and "Fortress Around Your Heart" are gentle and compelling. But Sting's can't-we-get-along lesson about global politics ("Russians") and his occasional stabs at fusion are overbearing kinks that would take years to work out. (Trivia: Darryl Jones, who would replace Bill Wyman in the Rolling Stones a decade later, plays bass here.) --Steve Knopper

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