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The Dream Of The Blue Turtles
 
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The Dream Of The Blue Turtles [Enhanced]
~ Sting (Artist)
4.5 out of 5 stars  (4 customer reviews)
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Product details
  • Audio CD (11 Jun 2001)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Enhanced
  • Label: Polydor Group
  • ASIN: B00000GAGW
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 17,445 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free Listen
2. Love Is The Seventh Wave Listen
3. Russians Listen
4. Children's Crusade Listen
5. Shadows In The Rain Listen
6. We Work The Black Seam Listen
7. Consider Me Gone Listen
8. The Dream Of The Blue Turtles Listen
9. Moon Over Bourbon Street Listen
10. Fortress Around Your Heart Listen
11. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free

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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 unrealised 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 break-up 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 UK'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

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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.