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Steve Winwood: Arc of a Diver

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Label: Island Records
Released: 1980.12.20
Time:
 39:52
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Steve Winwood
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.stevewinwood.com
Appears with: The Spencer Davis Group
Purchase date: 2010.01.25
Price in €: 2,00





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[1] While You See a Chance (Jennings/Winwood) - 5:13
[2] Arc of a Diver (Stanshall/Winwood) - 5:29
[3] Second-Hand Woman (Fleming/Winwood) - 3:34
[4] Slowdown Sundown (Jennings/Winwood) - 5:34
[5] Spanish Dancer (Jennings/Winwood) - 5:59
[6] Night Train (Ellington/Jennings/Winwood) - 7:51
[7] Dust (Fleming/Winwood) - 6:22

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Steve Winwood - Synthesizer, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Engineer, Mixing

Jon Clarke - Engineer
Vivian Stanshall - Composer
G. Fleming - Composer
Will Jennings - Composer
Tony Wright - Cover Design
Fin Costello - Photography

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1980 CD Island 422-842365-2
1990 CD Island 842365
2007 CD Universal Distribution 93338
2009 LP Island 5317713

Recorded at Netherturkdonic Studios, England.

With a glorious voice that sounds as if he has just swallowed a jar of cod liver oil, Winwood has the advantage of instant recognition; add to this a musicianship that has been employed in dozens of sessions over the past four decades, andthe result is a prodigious talent that runs like a vein of gold through rock music since the Spencer Davis Group. Arc Of A Diver, released at the end of 1980 after a long period of self-imposed retreat, is a triumphant resurgence. With lyrical contributions by Viv Stanshall (the rich imagery of thetitle track) and Will Jennings, Winwood never falls into the trap of shaming the music with sub-standard words. Anothermusical genius.



Utterly unencumbered by the baggage of his long years in the music business, Winwood reinvents himself as a completely contemporary artist on this outstanding album, leading off with his best solo song, "While You See a Chance." Winwood also plays all the instruments.

William Ruhlmann - All Music Guide



He wasn't Little Stevie, the 16-year-old phenom who set mid- '60s London blazing with his Ray Charles-like vocals, anymore. He was a half-forgotten ex-member of some of rock's most progressive (Traffic) and vilified (Blind Faith) bands, and he was considering leaving show business while recording this--his second album--alone and without a backup band. Arc of a Diver reflects a resigned-to-fate mood. It boasts a synth-heavy, dub-like ambience, with dirge-y tracks like "Spanish Dancer" and the wistful single "While You See a Chance" all but zoning out of your speakers. The fates were kind, though. Recording the single, Winwood inadvertently erased the drum intro. This spacey alteration, together with his catchiest tune since "Paper Sun," catapulted the song onto the charts. In a few years he would be among the top-selling vocalists in the world. His mood was lighter. He could afford to hire engineers that didn't make mistakes.

Don Harrison - Amazon.com



Das war nicht mehr der "Little Stevie", der als 16jähriges Phänomen Mitte der 60er Jahre ganz London mit seinem an Ray Charles erinnernden Gesang begeisterte. Er war lediglich das halb in Vergessenheit geratene Ex-Mitglied einer der fortschrittlichsten (Traffic) und einer der diffamiertesten (Blind Faith) Bands. Während den Aufnahmen zu diesem Album (seinem zweiten Soloalbum) dachte er ernsthaft daran, sich aus dem Showbusineß zurückzuziehen. Arc of a Diver spiegelt eine "Ich resigniere vor dem Schicksal"-Stimmung wieder. Es prahlt mit einer synthie-schweren, überladenen Atmosphäre, mit klagenden Nummern wie "Spanish Dancer" und der wehmütigen Single "While you see a Chance", die beinahe aus dem Lautsprecher kriecht. Doch das Schicksal war gnädig. Bei der Aufnahme der Single löschte Winwood versehentlich das Schlagzeug-Intro. Diese raumschenkende Änderung - zusammen mit seiner bisher eingängigsten Melodie seit "Paper Sun" - katapultierte den Song in die Charts. In nur wenigen Jahren wurde er zu einem der bestverkaufenden Sänger der Welt. Seine Laune wurde besser. Er konnte sich jetzt Toningenieure leisten, die keine Fehler machten.

Don Harrison - Amazon.de
 

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While You See a Chance

Stand up in a clear blue morning until you see what can be
Alone in a cold day dawning, are you still free? Can you be?
When some cold tomorrow finds you, when some sad old dream reminds you
How the endless road unwinds you

While you see a chance take it, find romance fake it
Because it's all on you

Don't you know by now no one gives you anything
Don't you wonder how you keep on moving one more day your way

When there's no one left to leave you, even you don't quite believe you
That's when nothing can deceive you

Stand up in a clear blue morning until you see what can be
Alone in a cold day dawning, are you still free? Can you be?
And that old gray wind is blowing and there's nothing left worth knowing
And it's time you should be going


Arc of a Diver

She bathes me in sweetness, I cannot reveal
For sharing dreams I need my woman
This humble expression...meagerly dressed
My eyes so mean it has no meaning
But jealous night and all her secret chords
I must be deaf...on the telephone...I need my love to translate

I play the piano, no more running honey
This time to the sky I'll sing if clouds don't hear me
To the sun I'll cry and even if I'm blinded
I'll try moon gazer, because with you I'm stronger...I'm stronger...I'm stronger

Arc of a diver...effortlessly...my mind in sky and when I wake up
In daytime or nighttime...I feel you near
Warm water breathing...she helps me hear
But jealous night and all her secret chords
I must be deaf...on the telephone...I need my love to translate

This time to the sky I'll sing if clouds don't hear me
To the sun I'll cry and even if I'm blinded
I'll try moon gazer...because with you I'm stronger (BREAK)

But jealous night and all her secret chords
I must be deaf...on the telephone...I'll need my love to translate

This time to the sky I'll sing if clouds don't hear me
To the sun I'll cry and even if I'm blinded
I'll try moon gazer...because with you I'm stronger
doo-do-doot, doo-do-doot, do-do-do-do
doo-do-doot, doo-do-doot, do-do-do-dit
doo-do-doot, doo-do-doot, do-do-do-do
doo-do-do-do-dit,

Lean streaky music...spawned on the streets...I hear it but with you I have to go
Cause my rock 'n' roll...is putting on weight...and the beat. it goes on
Arc of a diver...effortlessly...my mind in sky and when I wake up, woah-oh-oh
Daytime and nighttime...I feel you near
Warm water breathing...she helps me hear

But jealous night and all her secret chords
I must be deaf...on the telephone...I'll need my love to translate

With you my love we're going to...raid the future
With you my love we're going to stick up the past
We'll hold today to ransom...'til our quartz clock stop...until yesterday
Woah, until yesterday
Until yesterday
Til our quartz clock stop


Second Hand Woman

Go down babe a slot machine to take my dime
Cunning diversion to pass the time
Flash in the pan a weekend trip in any town
She'll light the fuse and watch you drown

From a cut-price lady to second-hand woman
You're society's slave babe you're an ugly rumor

Go down babe a slot machine to take my dime
Cunning diversion to pass the time

I wanted to say please don't go away today
Tomorrow's okay


Slowdown Sundown

Sundown coming down too soon, no time to be alone
So I'll take a glass of memories and understand the blues
Oh they're the last thing you lose
Slowdown sundown, all I really need is time
For faded love songs and feelings in the wine
Let them take me down the line
Sunrise, a woman's eyes, good loving one warm afternoon
Here's to all the strong ones who don't care if they win
The kind I'll never see again
Slowdown, give me just a little while
It's not the darkness, it's just the night's so long
Puts the sadness in the song
Here's to someday when someone understands it
Why life keeps turning like a mad thing
Until that someday I'll just play what I have to play though I play it alone
Slowdown sundown, all I really need is time
For faded love songs and feelings in the wine
Let them take me down the line


Spanish Dancer

I can feel the heat, no one has to tell me
It's so good, once it starts I'll never let go
I can feel the beat like a Spanish dancer
Under my feet, making the world go 'round, I can't come down
You can't hold me when I get to feeling this way
It's all over, I'm inside that music that's playing
It takes me out across the wall
It makes my life a carnival
I go out on the street and take my chances
Don't even have to ask, I know the answers


Night Train

Out of the night burning with light
Train shining black, I won't look back, life is running
Hoping some day someone will say I got it made
Pull up the shade, let the sun in

Down on the night train, I feel the starlight steal away
Use up a lifetime looking for the break of day

Border patrol looking through me
Towns without names all look the same, I hear crying
Paris to Spain, countries in pain
Caught up in flight, feeling the sight, Europe dying

Rolling on, hear the wheels singing, fever keep coming on so strong
My ticket paid, trying to fade
I hope I get there not just somewhere I was leaving
Out in the dark all the wolves bark
I fold my arms try to keep warm by believing

Hard rain following on, cold wheels moving on
Everybody they're so alone down on the night train


Dust

Time they call the universal healer
But you're back
Every three days
Settling all around me
A feather duster's no substitute
For the real thing
And the dust you left behind
Is settling still

When you don't ever taste it so good
Swept up like debris on a Saturday night
Did we ever have fun ?
And the dust, the gentle legacy you left behind
Is falling softly on my mind
Dust, the timeless memory of you,
I love you... I do,
For all the little things you do
And I guess I always will (hmm)
The dust settles again
To remind me still
Of the memories
I've cherished so long

Hold me still close to your side
'cause my love
Won't decay anymore
Memories are hope for those long summer days
And the dust you left behind
Is settling still

When you don't ever taste it so good
Swept up like debris on a Saturday night
Did we ever have fun ?
And the dust, the gentle legacy you left behind
Is falling softly on my mind
Dust, the timeless memory of you
I love you... I do,
For the little things you do
And I guess I always will (hmm)
The Dust settles again
To remind me still
Of the memories
I've cherrished so long

Feeling your body stretched so long,
What was it went so wrong,
That our love, our love it was gone, oh it was gone
But our friendship going strong, going strong, going strong oh
Going strong, going strong
(hmm)x2

Feeling your body stretched so long,
Stretched so long,
What was it went so wrong, went wrong,
That our love, that our love it was gone, gone, gone, gone, gone,
But our friendship going strong, going strong,
Oh ! going strong,
Going strong, going strong
(hmm)x2

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