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Sting - Nothing Like the Sun (1990)
	Album details
	Label: A&M    Ref#: ?-0009 Date: 10/25/1990   Category:   Length: 0:00     Format: CD     Audio: Stereo     Genre:
Notes/Reviews
Sting's second and most conceptually dense solo album moved on from jazz to ideas picked up from Latin music. Even when he's not using Latin music's tricky polyrhythms, the melodies of the ballad "Be Still My Beating Heart" and the hit dance single "We'll Be Together" suggest he'd been listening to lots of salsa. If you can sting, you can cross-pollinate, too, and there are some other subtle hybrids here, notably the Gil Evans Orchestra's gliding arrangement of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing" and the reggae-in-a-Cole Porter suit of "Englishman in New York." Of course, the former schoolteacher has some lyrical messages to deliver and the three songs that originally made up the second side of a double LP are a bitter meditation on Latin American politics and history. --Douglas Wolk
Songs/Tracks
1.   The Lazarus Heart   2.   Be Still My Beating Heart   3.   Englishman In New York   4.   History Will Teach Us Nothing   5.   They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)   6.   Fragile   7.   We'll Be Together   8.   Straight To My Heart   9.   Rock Steady   10.   Sister Moon   11.   Little Wing   12.   The Secret Marriage
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