MFSL 1-185 STING The Dream Of The Blue Turtles JVC Japan AUDIOPHILE
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STING The Dream Of The Blue Turtles
NM/NM Used Audiophile Vinyl Record
Record Label: Mobile Fidelity MFSL 1-185
Long Out Of Print, Half-speed re-mastering of the Sting release. Sourced from the original stereo analog master tapes and produced on High Definition Super Vinyl by Victor Company of Japan.
Mobile Fidelity reissues are among the finest recordings ever produced and very limited in quantity.
Condition: Heavy-board, laminated sleeve is like new on front and back. Corners are sharp and unbent. Spine, top and bottom are solid and free of chipping or splits. There are no spindle marks on the label. Comes with Lyric insert, special heavy-duty protective packaging and static and dust-free inner sleeve. Vinyl is shiny to the eye and plays like new.
Side One
1. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
2. Love Is the Seventh Wave
3. Russians
4. Children's Crusade
5. Shadows in the Rain
Side Two
6. We Work the Black Seam
7. Consider Me Gone
8. Dream of the Blue Turtles, The
9. Moon Over Bourbon Street
10. Fortress Around Your Heart
Review: Sting had a lot to prove on his first post-Police effort, and he proved himself up to the task of establishing a distinctive identity as a solo artist. Instead of replicating his reggae-tinged Police style, he ventured into new realms, hiring top drawer American jazz musicians like Branford Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland and drum monster Omar Hakim to accompany him on the kind of harmonically sophisticated (though decidedly non-jazz) tunes he'd begun working on towards the end of the Police's lifetime (see SYNCHRONICITY).
There's still a touch of reggae on the open-hearted "Love Is the Seventh Wave," and even a funked-up version of the formerly abstract Police tune "Shadows In The Rain," but most of the tunes here (except the pop smash "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" are the kind of literate, adult-friendly sophisto-pop that would become a template for his subsequent solo recordings. BLUE TURTLES still stands as one of his most memorable albums.
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