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Tony Levin: Peaces of the Sun

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Label: Narada Records
Released: 2002.02.12
Time:
 67:13
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Tony Levin
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.tonylevin.com
Appears with: King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd
Purchase date: 2002.02.23
Price in €: 15,99



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[1] Apollo (T.Levin) - 6:49
[2] Geronimo (L.Fast/J.Gress/T.Levin/J.Marotta) - 3:11
[3] Aquafin (Levin) - 5:14
[4] Dog One (P.Gabriel) - 5:15
[5] Tequila (T.Levin/Ch.Rio) - 5:20
[6] Pieces of the Sun (T.Levin/J.Marotta) - 7:20
[7] Phobos (L.Fast) - 7:08
[8] Ooze (T.Levin) - 4:16
[9] Blue Nude Recording (L.Fast/J.Gress/T.Levin/J.Marotta) - 3:08
[10] The Fifth Man (T.Levin) - 5:47
[11] Ever the Sun Will Rise (T.Levin) - 9:08
[12] Silhouette (T.Levin) - 4:37

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TONY LEVIN - Bass, Cello, Stick, Vocals, Producer, Omnichord

LARRY FAST - Synthesizer, Vocals
JERRY MAROTTA - Acoustic Guitar, Percussion, Drums, Saxophone, Vocals, Omnichord, Taos Drum
JESSE GRESS - Electric & Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Guitar Effects

The California Guitar Trio:
BERT LAMS - Acoustic Guitars on [1]
HIDEYO MORIYA - Acoustic Guitars on [1]
PAUL RICHARDS - Acoustic Guitars on [1]

KEVIN KILLEN - Engineer
BILL MUNYON - Engineer
ROBERT FRAZZA - Engineer
MATT KANE - Assistant Engineer
TREVOR SADLER - Mastering
TODD VOSS - Mixing Engineer
CHRIS BITTNER - Digital Editing, Assistant Engineer

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2001 CD Narada 70876-15380-2-1
2002 CD Narada 11626



Best known as a legendary sideman behind such rock greats as John Lennon, James Taylor, and Paul Simon — as well as a member of King Crimson and the Peter Gabriel band — the bassist has brought his throbbing bass genius into a solo, neo-fusion context. While touring with his band in 2000, Levin wowed audiences around the country, and fans clamored for an album with the group. This is the result: an intense, highly dynamic, and mood-swinging (read: eclectic) group of tunes à la Crimson to contemporary instrumental to soundscapes of galactic proportions as only Levin could imagine. In its seven-minute span, the opening track introduces the concept of highs and lows; the first few minutes may remind the listener of Jimi Hendrix on speed, but then the tune takes a folksy, acoustic guitar-driven detour; it's schizophrenic but loads of fun. "Geronimo" is a densely percussive mix of blistering fusion and melodic corporate rock. "Aquafin" is lighthearted and folksy, with a Celtic lilt, while the previously unreleased, Gabriel-written "Dog One" returns listeners to experimental art rock with a vocal chant counting dogs behind a wall of guitar and bass. Some pieces get a little longwinded in their attempt to be esoteric, such as the title track, which varies tempos and moods throughout even as the powerful drumbeats drive the tune along. Best enjoyed by hardcore rockers and fusion-lovers, and of course musicians who worship great energy and technique.

Jonathan Widran, All-Music Guide, © 1992 - 2002 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



Like John Paul Jones and Jeff Beck, Tony Levin is a musician's musician whose collaborations sparkle (in Levin's case with such eclectics as Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, and Lou Reed), but it's his solo stuff that really sails off the chart. And like the aforementioned players, Levin is anything but an oldies machine; he uses each new recording as a way of further juxtaposing his primary instruments (bass and Chapman stick) against the weirdest, most challenging stuff he can score. Consequently, Pieces of the Sun is, predictably, wholly unpredictable, with Levin and his 2001 touring band lighting into a set of headphone-melting instrumentals best described as pulsing prog-rock built on the kind of awesome playing that, in a concert setting, attracts packs of drooling amateurs to the stage to watch the musician's hands. "Dog One"--an unreleased recording with Gabriel--appears rerecorded here as a jittery, piano-and-guitar speckled opus with muffled call-and-response vocals, while the percussive "Tequila" shines the spotlight on a mournful tenor sax before turning things over to ambient synth and lazy electric guitar. With the exception of the languid and loose closing track, "Silhouette," everything on Pieces of the Sun feels urgent, with Levin once again acquitting himself and his generation of charges of stagnation.

Kim Hughes, Amazon.com
 

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