10.03.2015, 21:36
Po tej kolejnej recenzji chyba już nie mam złudzeń że fani DS mogą być najnowsza płytą rozczarowani
Będzie bardzo wolno i sennie
Rolling Stones, German edition, review:
Life in Songs – melancholy, warm-hearted: The Brit omitts some solos and concentrates on intimete details from his biography:
On his last album, Mark Knopfler saw himself as a pirate: setting sail into the sea and make a big haul in the concert halls. With this same band, Knopfler has recorded the most concise music of his solo career. The good thing about this album is the pointedly slowness in which Knopfler submerges during his historical tales, not seldomly linked with comments on current themes, Knopfler the historican, the romantic, the tale-teller.
On his new album, the focus has changed. Knopfler, mid-60, revues his own life, and tells stories of his own biography. No big analysis, more like small moments, stuck in the memory like fotographs forever and condense to a lifetime tale – just keeping track.
Knopfler as a youngster in London, founding a band, seeking a girlfriend. Knopfler as a copy boy, presumably in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, kissing a girl from Gateshead, having all his life ahead.
One song is about a boxer who stoically bears the strokes and the sewing of the wounds, another song is about a maltreaded worker, building Englands streets. Two times the protagonist is a rock star thinking about old loves, wishful and slightly resigned, tired from the audience masses.
At the final „Wherever I Go“ , a touching duet with the Canadian folk-chanteuse Ruth Moody, then the conclusion; Maybe I'm bound to wander/from one place to the next/heaven knows why/ but in the wild blue yonder/your star is fixed in my sky. To that a saxophone groans.
The music is deeply ranged with the wistfulness of reflexion, the quiet pondering that turns out more personal than on the previous albums. The thoroughly warm-hearted tone, the impressively reduced interaction of the band musicians, the outrageous humming silence: Everything stays at it is, even when Knopfler gives priority to his stories and omitts some solos: We are listening.
Będzie bardzo wolno i sennieRolling Stones, German edition, review:
Life in Songs – melancholy, warm-hearted: The Brit omitts some solos and concentrates on intimete details from his biography:
On his last album, Mark Knopfler saw himself as a pirate: setting sail into the sea and make a big haul in the concert halls. With this same band, Knopfler has recorded the most concise music of his solo career. The good thing about this album is the pointedly slowness in which Knopfler submerges during his historical tales, not seldomly linked with comments on current themes, Knopfler the historican, the romantic, the tale-teller.
On his new album, the focus has changed. Knopfler, mid-60, revues his own life, and tells stories of his own biography. No big analysis, more like small moments, stuck in the memory like fotographs forever and condense to a lifetime tale – just keeping track.
Knopfler as a youngster in London, founding a band, seeking a girlfriend. Knopfler as a copy boy, presumably in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, kissing a girl from Gateshead, having all his life ahead.
One song is about a boxer who stoically bears the strokes and the sewing of the wounds, another song is about a maltreaded worker, building Englands streets. Two times the protagonist is a rock star thinking about old loves, wishful and slightly resigned, tired from the audience masses.
At the final „Wherever I Go“ , a touching duet with the Canadian folk-chanteuse Ruth Moody, then the conclusion; Maybe I'm bound to wander/from one place to the next/heaven knows why/ but in the wild blue yonder/your star is fixed in my sky. To that a saxophone groans.
The music is deeply ranged with the wistfulness of reflexion, the quiet pondering that turns out more personal than on the previous albums. The thoroughly warm-hearted tone, the impressively reduced interaction of the band musicians, the outrageous humming silence: Everything stays at it is, even when Knopfler gives priority to his stories and omitts some solos: We are listening.
Something's going to happen
To make your whole life better
Your whole life better one day
To make your whole life better
Your whole life better one day