Hamburski perkusyjny jazz-band bierze na celownik twórczość muzyka The Police, Stewarta Copelanda. Bardzo rytmiczny album!



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The sixth album of the Hamburg drum ensemble ElbtonalPercussion pays tribute to the music of one of the world's most influential drummers, and it is at the same time a journey of discovery into rhythm and sound.

At the end of the 1970s Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers and Sting developed their very own version of Jamaican reggae. Choosing to call themselves The Police of all things (!), they went on to compose several dozen pop hits which melded Caribbean offbeats with the nervous energy of suburban punk. The result was, as they realised themselves, white reggae or, in Esperanto: Regatta de blanc. The rest is history, and history went on to give them one highly success pop career and two careers dedicated more to artistic integrity than visibility. The musicians of ElbtonalPercussion have created a musical, tonal monument to one of these careers.

Stewart Copeland was the conceptual father of The Police and, until the band split, he was their rhythmic architect. His beats floated freely above the backbeat, freer than was customary in rock music (possibly due to the fact that he learned to play the drums in the Middle East, where the Copeland family lived when he was a child and teenager). It was also largely due to Copeland that the band deciphered the Jamaican one drop, bringing it to thousands of dancers who had never previously heard the name Bob Marley, let alone knew where the "one" was in his riddims.

Copeland's musical life after The Police began with the proverbial thunderbolt: while working on the final Police album, Synchronicity, Copeland recorded the soundtrack for Francis Ford Coppola's film Rumble Fish, a furious thunderstorm of drums that created an atmosphere of almost painfu.......
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