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Jimmy Somerville: Manage the Damage

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Label: Instinct Records
Released: 1999
Time:
 43:39
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: ****...... (4/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.jimmysomerville.co.uk
Appears with: The Communards, Bronksi Beat
Purchase date: 2000.08.26
Price in €: 3,99



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[1] Here I Am (Herbert/Sommerville) - 4:15
[2] Lay Down (Gainsburg/Herbert/Sommerville) - 3:59
[3] Dark Sky (Herbert/Sommerville) - 3:16
[4] My Lilfe (Herbert/Sommerville) - 4:32
[5] Something To Live For (Herbert/Monaghan/Sommerville) - 3:51
[6] This Must Be Love (Herbert/Sommerville) - 5:07
[7] Girl Falling Down (Herbert/Sommerville) - 3:55
[8] Someday Soon (Herbert/Sommerville) - 3:33
[9] Eve (Herbert/Sommerville) - 3:51
[10] Stone (Herbert/Sommerville) - 4:23
[11] Rolling (Herbert/Somerville) - 3:08

Bonus Tracks:
[12] I Believe - 3:58
[13] Something To live For - 5:53
[14] Lay Down - 8:16

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Jimmy Somerville - Vocals, Producer, Programming

Greg Bone - Guitar
Gary Butcher - Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Colin Smith - Saxophone

Gini Ball - Violin
Dinah Beamish - Cello
Simon Elms - Flugelhorn
Sophie Harris - Cello
Adrian Lee - Trombone
Nick Nasmyth - Wurlitzer
Claire Orsler - Viola
Jos Pook - Viola
James Sanger - Omnichord
Jules Singleton - Violin
Sonia Slany - Violin
Anne Stephenson - Violin
Trevor Conner - Counter Tenor Vocal, Background Vocals
Paul Jason Fredericks - Background Vocals
Dee Lewis - Background Vocals
Gillian Wisdom - Background Vocals

Sally Herbert - Producer, Programming, String Arrangements
Ash Howes - Producer
Jeremy Wheatley - Mixing
James Sanger - Programming
Colin Smith - Brass Arrangement
Donald Christie - Photography
Taylor Deupree - Art Direction, Design
Simon Elms - Brass Arrangemen

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Man mag diese Stimme schmuseweich nennen, man mag sie fiepsig nennen. Auffällig ist das Organ von Jimmy Somerville auf jeden Fall. Somerville, der kleine Sänger aus Glasgow, der mit Bands wie Bronski Beat und The Communards bereits in den 80er Jahren Erfolge feierte, liefert mit Manage The Damage solide Discomusik, locker angereichert mit ein bißchen Techno, ein bißchen Trance, ein bißchen Funk, ein bißchen Soul, ein bißchen Rock und ganz viel Dance-Pop. Sphärische Klänge sind zu hören auf "Here I Am", und flippige Bläsersätze verfeinern "Lay Down". "Something To Live For" ist ein fetziger Dance-Knaller, und "Girl Falling Down" ist eine traurige Ballade, basierend auf einer wahren Geschichte von einem Mädchen, dem die Gesellschaft jede Chance auf eine Zukunft genommen hat. Außergewöhnlich ist hier der Einsatz der akustischen Gitarre. Das mit Streichern unterlegte balladeske "Rolling" schließlich rundet das Album, das Somerville komplett mit seiner Co-Autorin Sally Herbert geschrieben hat, ab. Als Bonus-Track gibt´s noch den Radio Edit von "Something To Live For". Jimmy Somerville selbst kommentiert "Manage The Damage" wie folgt: "Es ist eine Sammlung von Songs über das Leben und die Liebe. Und geht's darum nicht immer?"

Dirk Ruschepaul - Amazon.de



For most of the 1980s, as both a solo artist and front man for the Communards and Bronksi Beat, Jimmy Somerville's unmistakable falsetto blared across quaking dance club floors. And, on his latest, Manage the Damage, Somerville's love-it-or-leave-it voice sounds even stronger as he eschews past campy musical styles in favor of more contemporary dance production. Here, Somerville, an early techno/dance pioneer, updates his arsenal of disco rhythms with beat-big tempos, house samples, and trip-hop beats. The opener "Here I Am" features tranced-out beats - similar to sounds the Pet Shop Boys first pioneered - and Somerville's operatic ululating wail. "Lay Down" features loungy, laid back ambience while "My Life" is his foray into trip-hop territory. Somerville remains true to his roots with disco stompers like "Something to Live For" which you can expect to hear dance remixes of any day. Lyrically, Somerville pushes himself particularly on "Girl Falling Down," an emotional ballad about an abusive relationship. Manage the Damage and Somerville's latest incarnaion probably won't gain Somerville many new fans, but it's sure to delight those already in the know.

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