Backed by his 'Soul Cages' touring band of Dominic Miller (guitar), Vinnie Colaiuta (drums) and David Sancious (keyboards) and by a host of guests, Sting starts his 'Tales' on a brighter note. STING - Ten Summoner's Tales (1993) Par SOPHIE le 31 Janvier 2006 Consultée 6169 fois: Voici venir le 4° album de Sting après le fabuleux « Soul Cages ». "Ten Summoner's Tales Promotional Interview Disc, '93. The Ten Summoner's Travels film, including footage from shows at the Villa Manin (Udine, Italy) and the Specktrum (Oslo, Norway). The system is as comprehensive and up-to-date as any and there were no technical disadvantages as far as the recording went. "Ask if I am mouse or man/the mirror squeaked, away I ran," sings Sting in his reedy voice over a tense instrumental arrangement. Review from The San Antonio Express by Robert JohnsonSting has never been one for smiley-faced music, but at least the gloom has abated on 'Ten Summoner's Tales', his fourth studio album since The Police split up 10 years ago. Rather it is the band lip-synching to the album. Sings Sting, "Ask if I am mouse or man/The mirror squeaked, away I ran." Listen to Sting Radio featuring songs from Ten Summoner’s Tales free online. The prototypical bearers of bad news, summoners were uniformly hated because their job was to "summon" people to court for ecclesiastical or civil crimes, including moral violations like adultery or fornication.Summoners were greatly feared and highly susceptible to bribes - greasing the summoner was a most effective way to avoid trouble. And 'It's Probably Me' is a classic Sting ballad: moody brooding, vaguely sinister, troubled and seductive.Never one to miss an opportunity to stick in the shiv, Sting ends 'Ten Summoners Tales' with a taunt. In 'Saint Augustine in Hell', he has the Devil, over some spare piano play, introduce some of the inhabitants of Hell: "We've got... barristers, certified accountants, music critics, they're all here. He also coproduced the album with Hugh Padgham, the mixer and engineer. There is hardly a track that doesn't strike you as being either gorgeously melodic or musically crafted with precision and lyrically witty (or both). Less serious overall than his previous solo outings (despite its title, Tales contains eleven tracks, which should tell you something), it neither chases trends, attempts to break new ground nor strains for Major Statements. The 55-minute collection comprises 10 "tales" and an epilogue. The album artwork does include the first picture of me with a lute, something that would become significant to me in the years to follow. Whatever his reasons, with 'Ten Summoner's Tales' he has shifted back towards his true talent: writing short, traditional pop songs.Still, Sting wouldn't be Sting if there weren't a few moments that rankled. I think the result is that it shows him in a truer light than any of his previous solo albums. I'd moved here (to Lake House). We don't know much about him. All were released as singles as was 'Shape Of My Heart' which Sting co-wrote with Dominic Miller.The album was recorded using Sting's new Steerpike SSL Portable Studio studio, which was set up at Lake House, his 400 years old Wiltshire home. Review from The Capital Times by Eric RasmussenUp until about a week ago, I would have figured that the chances of me liking a Sting album were somewhere down there with the chances of me really digging a collection of the unreleased recordings of Joseph Goebbels.After all, back in 1988 my comments to the effect of "I hate Sting'' brought an onslaught of letters and phone calls to local radio stations and my home. He explained, "I really don't like studios much, I find them prison-like environments where you don't breathe the air or see the sunlight for months on end so I decided I'd make the record at home. 'Fields of Gold' is a warm ballad. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1993 CD release of "Ten Summoner's Tales" on Discogs. Ten Summoner's Tales is the fourth solo studio album by the rock musician Sting. The Canterbury Tales which was written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the fifteenth century is a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims - there's a nun, a miller, a knight, a summoner, a pardoner and they each tell a story. I think my record is a lot like that. Backing Sting, who plays bass is the lean, versatile outfit - Dominic Miller on guitar, David Sancious on keyboards, Vinnie Colaiuta on drums - that he took on the road after 'The Soul Cages' came out in 1991. Hélas, quand on monte très haut, on risque fortement de redescendre. Review from The Baltimore Sun by J D ConsidineAs far as most of the rock press is concerned, the trouble with Sting is that he's too clever by half. But it's not a sin to be literate, even in rock'n'roll. And the swinging, thick rocker 'She's Too Good for Me' has its momentum disrupted by a pit stop for an interlude with strings.Never one to take criticism lightly, Sting shoots back at his detractors. And with this album Sting emerges as more human, something his previous solo outings have always contained, but buried beneath too much musical and lyrical baggage. Backgrounder. Drummer Vinnie Colaiuta is really the musical centerpiece. "'Ten Summoner's Tales' Promotional Interview Disc, '93On the album having eleven tracks despite the title suggesting 10..."I just like ten as a number, but I think we get round the problem by having the last number as an epilogue, a sort of afterthought. The Police Excommunicated. It's almost a kind of compositional sleight-of-hand, as Sting uses catchy melodies and pop-savvy arrangements to distract our attention away from just how crafty these songs are.It helps, of course, that the writing here ranks among his most tuneful to date - no mean feat, given his past success as a solo artist and with the Police. And our presumptions often sell him short. 'She's Too Good for Me' ranges from a rock 'n' roll rage to a soft ballad, with Sting's hyperkinetic vocals kicking the song into high gear. Ten Summoner’s Tales is the fourth solo studio album by the English rock musician Sting. Sting is interested in seeing how many jokes - lyrical and musical - he can slip into each song without diminishing its melodic allure. And while the minor-key story-song 'Something the Boy Said' recalls the atmospheric sweep of the Police's 'Tea in the Sahara', the new song's chord sequence gives it a dramatic momentum, a slowly gathering tension that builds to an inevitable conclusion.As he does throughout the work, Sting sings Something the Boy Said with poise and understatement. The album was recorded at Lake House, a grand English manor set in the Wiltshire countryside.Sting supplies vocals and plays bass, harmonica and saxophone, along with a group of musicians playing instruments I didn't think most rock groups would recognize - trumpet, cello, viola, trombone, violin, flute and Northumbrian pipes.Those who think all rock music is meant to puncture eardrums will be surprised at the gentility and tenderness of some of these selections. One of the album's more heartfelt songs, 'If I Ever Lose My Faith in You' rises to a gorgeous, ringing chorus over a delicate probing guitar figure 'Shape of My Heart' uses a gambling conceit to explore "the sacred geometry of chance" and the elusiveness of emotional self knowledge. "It's about the tension of wanting to be good and yet being tempted - and just enjoying the temptation," he has explained.At one point, a voice that supposedly is the devil explains that hell is filled "with ...judges, accountants... music critics... they're all here, you're not alone." And say what you like about him - he can still astonish. Date de sortie : 1 janvier 1993. Review from The Daily Telegraph by Chris HeathAfter disbanding the Police in the mid-Eighties, Sting pushed further and further away from the simple, clear pop music which made him famous. 44/876 (Digital Deluxe Album & Target Physical Exclusive), The Last Ship (Original Broadway Cast Recording), The Last Ship (standard & vinyl editions), Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven). Review from Entertainment Weekly magazine by Tom MoonLet's see what's left Since the last Police album, in 1983, Sting has been through an esoteric jazz phase (1985's 'The Dream of the Blue Turtles'), done time as an artist-activist (the 1988 Amnesty International tour), and suffered through a period of mourning ('The Soul Cages') that had all the exuberance of a root canal.Could it be time for him to try pop again The 11 terse, vividly imagined gems on 'Ten Summoner's Tales' prove that the joys of a simple song are not yet out of his reach. 0:05. Guardian Tales - Lucky Summon. Unlike, say, Paul McCartney, Sting still understands the rare alchemy of the radio hit, still crafts choruses designed to lodge in the mass consciousness. Strings, horns, Northumbrian pipes, harmonicas and other instruments turn up on an as needed basis, and the band ranges gracefully over musical styles. Backgrounder. I was in a very good mood, I was with my band and I was writing songs to amuse them, to amuse myself, to amuse my family and it kind of makes me smile when I listen to the record. 'Seven Days' is just one example of a song that is quintessentially Sting but yet a departure from anything he's done before. Augustine in Hell' (which includes Sting's most pointed jab at music critics), 'Love is Stronger than Justice' and 'She's Too Good for Me'.As usual, though, Sting's voice gives the music a paradoxical attraction. '"Billboard, 2/93"I really don't like studios much, I find them prison like environments where you don't breathe the air or see the sunlight for months on end so I decided I'd make a record at home. Sting is backed by a band that includes former Pretender Dominic Miller on guitar, David Sancious on keyboards (played with Peter Gabriel) and Vinnie Colaiuta (played with Frank Zappa) on drums. ''And in a way, that's the best joke of all. Sting could be reacting to the invasion of privacy that has become a fact of life in the digital age. 30 jours d'essai gratuit ! Ten Summoner's Tales was a lively and entertaining album but this video is just a collection of straight performances from Sting's home. Sting has dabbled in blues before, but he's never written a shuffle with the ferocious intensity of 'She's Too Good for Me'. Even It's Probably Me, which was hopelessly, coldly detached in its original incarnation on the 'Lethal Weapon III' soundtrack, comes across here as rich and heartfelt. "'Ten Summoner's Tales' Promotional Interview Disc, '93"Do I have to fucking slash my wrists every time I want to write a song Having done it on 'Soul Cages' and exorcised a lot of ghosts, I didn't want to excavate another trauma, I just wanted to write songs for fun. Limpide allusion aux Contes de Canterbury de Chaucer (Sumner étant le vrai nom de Sting), ce quatrième album studio en nom propre célèbre essentiellement le retour du chanteur à une acception plus immédiate, plus pop pour tout dire, de son art. Self-referential humor is a constant, from the album's title - a joke alluding both to Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales' and Sting's real name, Gordon Sumner - to a none-too-subtle gag in 'Saint Augustine in Hell', which finds the Devil introducing his tenants: "barristers, certified accountants, music critics, they're all here. Four solo albums since he left The Police, this alone marks a turning point.The title, admittedly, carries a learned allusion to Chaucer (by way of a play on his old name, Gordon Sumner) and one must still imagine him, at home, as a man with a book-stand attached to his Nautilus weights machine (with, perhaps, a mirror or three around it). Directed by Doug Nichol. And like Corigliano, he knows how to compose good tunes.Both those attributes are evident in Sting's latest compact disc and video, 'Ten Summoner's Tales'. And summoner also happens to be the genesis of Sting's surname, Sumner.) With Sting, it's the suspicion that we are expected to swoon over such aimless erudition that grates, but on this album he doesn't try it on too much. Sure, my roommates thought it was a gas, but I can now safely say that Sting is the man responsible for my unlisted phone number.A few years cooling off made me admit the awful truth, though. Its ambitions are modest - to entertain you, of all things - and for that reason, its successes are all the more pleasing.Of course, with Sting, humility is a relative thing. Download The Friar'S Summoner'S and Pardoner's Tales from the Canterbury Tales (Medieval and. Sting. "Mojo, 2/95"On this album, I've looked around at the most normal things in my life: the cowboy movie on my TV, the golden fields of barley beyond my house, and tried to see the subtle stories within them. "There are lots of musical jokes on this record," Sting said. ")Unlike, say, Peter Gabriel - whose current album calculatedly reworks some of his past successes - Sting is doing his best to broaden, to change his perspective, to do whatever it takes to keep himself interested in the pop- song form. I want to be a good pilgrim on the road to Canterbury, but I want to ignore all the signposts along the way. Released in 1993, it explores themes of love and morality in a noticeably upbeat mood compared to his previous release, the introspective The Soul Cages. Released in 1993, it explores themes of love and morality in a noticeably upbeat mood compared to his […] Review from The Philadelphia Inquirer by Tom MoonOn 'Nothing 'Bout Me', the 11th song on his new 'Ten Summoner's Tales', Sting declares: Pick my brain, pick my pockets/Steal my eyeballs and come back for the sockets/Run every kind of test, from A to Z/And you'll still know nothing 'bout me.As painful as it is to agree with the sanctimonious rock star, this time he's right. Augustine in Hell' captures his gilded voice straining to express love for his best friend's girl, and it hardly matters that the song is set in a choppy meter sure to wreak havoc on dance floors: Sting and his band execute it as if it were as natural as a waltz. Indeed, he just about beats listeners over the head with his erudition, quoting Shakespeare and cribbing from Prokofiev. "This is the happiest I've been in a long time." The title is a combined pun of his given name, Gordon Sumner, and a character in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the summoner. Less serious overall than his previous solo outings (despite its title, Tales contains eleven tracks, which should tell you something), it neither chases trends, attempts to break new ground nor strains for Major Statements. The Ten Summoner's Tales album featured the core members of the touring band from his previous release, The Soul Cages. Those lines, for example, are wide open. It helps that the writing here ranks among his most tuneful to date. The album-closing 'Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me)' is equally pointed "Pick my brain, pick my pockets/Steal my eyeballs and come back for the sockets/Run every kind of test from A to Z/And you'll still know nothing about me." Ten Summoner's Tales peaked at two in the UK and US album charts in 1993, and went triple platinum in just over a year. en référence à Ten Summoner's Tales, CD, Album, CDEPR 1507 540 075-2 At the height of the fame-in 1984-The Police decided to Sting in the waiting room. He's tried jazz balladry before, too, but with 'It's Probably Me' has arrived at a moody, harmonically hip masterpiece. It was a good release for me. The video is particularly interesting not just for the live nature of the tracks but for the between song clips of Lake House and it's grounds, the band, and for little snippets like the bass falling over during 'Love Is Stronger Than Justice'. The best example is 'Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven)' - which begins with some Ennio Morricone-style spaghetti Western sounds, then shifts into a smooth country-western chorus, before ending with some jazzy be-bop piano play from David Sancious (a former member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band).But not all the surprises are restricted to the music. 12 tracks (52:11). The kitchen is right next door so we had the nice smell of food going for most of the day, and we could walk out in the garden and open the windows and just live a real life instead of the fake environment that the studio gives you. The song is known for its odd time signature, which is in 5/4. They each tell a story and their all kinds of stories - romantic stories, funny stories, rude stories and they are all told in different styles. Liner NotesAfter the downbeat tones of 1991's 'The Soul Cages' album, it was typical of Sting to bounce back in 1993 with what many critics considered to be his most light hearted and upbeat album of his career, 'Ten Summoner's Tales'. But at least there's nothing as bleak as 'Island of Souls', which opened 'Soul Cages' on such a down note, it could have been dangerous to clinically depressed listeners.Often accused of pomposity and sermonizing, Sting is guilty of neither here. 'Heavy Cloud No Rain' is laced with funk, in contrast to the folky 'Something the Boy Said'. "A very interesting companion piece to album is the video of the recording sessions which won a Grammy award in 1994 for "Best Long Form Video Of The Year". Yet on the record's final song, 'Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me)', I say you can search all and still not know anything about me, the storyteller. Listen to Ten Summoner's Tales by Sting on VIBBIDI - Browse every single Songs, Tracklists, Music Videos, Remixes, Fan Covers, Live Performances, Tours, Playlists, Lyrics, Narrative Stories, News & … The video is particularly interesting not just for the live nature of the tracks but for the between song clips of Lake House and it's grounds, the band, and arguably the most interesting clip - the band performing 'Something The Boy Said', a terrific song which, sadly, has not been performed on stage.Review from Rolling Stone magazine by Anthony DeCurtisSting's new album 'Ten Summoner's Tales', strikes the tricky balance of being both uncompromised and relaxed. In it, Sting suggests that no matter what he might expose in the course of a pop song or personality profile, he ultimately reveals nothing of himself. Sting answers his critics without bitterness or spite with a playful challenge to "set up your microscope and tell me what you see / you'll still know nothing 'bout me. "There was a clue to the nature of the record in its punning title - Summoner/Sumner - and in interviews Sting was quick to point out that the record was meant to be a fun collection of tales and stories. The anarchic tendency of sex to rear its lovely head and confound more high-minded or rational motivations is one of Tales' recurring motifs. Even the protagonist's procrastination becomes grist for the joke mill, as Sting ends the song with a snatch of 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic' - another number about a man too love-smitten to act on his desire.That sort of self-referential humor is a constant here, from the album's title - a joke alluding both to Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' and Sting's real name, Gordon Sumner - to a none-too-subtle gag in 'Saint Augustine in Hell' that finds the Devil introducing its denizens: "barristers, certified accountants, music critics, they're all here. Review from Q magazine by Paul Du NoyerThe word has been, you may have heard, that Sting has "lightened up" here. This was his first venture as a video album and the release won a Grammy award in 1994 for "Best Long Form Video Of The Year". Amazingly, the track is more lighthearted than it sounds.No one will ever accuse Sting of making party rock, but 'Ten Summoner's Tales' a reference to a story in 'The Canterbury Tales' and to Sting's real name, Gordon Sumner is a sturdy, detailed piece of work. Ten Summoner’s Tales Résumé Réédition vinyle : Ce quatrième album réalisé par l'ex-leader de Police en 1993 marque le retour de Sting à un style moins emphatique que celui du disque précédent (The Soul Cages) et annonce les deux suivants (Mercury Falling et Brand New Day). Erotic torment (or is it bliss) grips a man who falls in lust with his best friend's girl in 'Saint Augustine In Hell' - a hell that in a perfect Sting touch proudly numbers music critics among its inhabitants.Produced by Sting and Hugh Padgham, 'Tales' is loose and swinging; the joy in the playing is palpable. "'Ten Summoner's Tales' Promotional Interview Disc, '93"By the time I made 'Ten Summoner's Tales', that was about having a steady band that I loved and trusted, and having a nice family life. You really need to put your amateur analyst's hat to one side - maybe I'm kidding myself - but I think you can listen to these songs and they are not about me. "Mojo, 2/95"I didn't want any more confessional songs, and I wanted to put myself in other scenarios. But now I don't know what to do next that's the problem. The 'Ten Summoner's Tales' video was filmed in Sting's Wiltshire home, Lake House, at the time of recording the album. Smoky and shaded even in its most direct expressions, Sting's singing is, as always, superb, a virtual study in intelligent rock-vocal technique.Musically varied as 'Tales' is, a number of tracks draw on Sting's established strengths. Augustine in Hell'. In a verse that wouldn't be cause for much attention from another artist, Sting sounds refreshingly humble: Perhaps I need a drink/IQ is no problem here/We won't be playing Scrabble for her hand I fear/I need that beer.Likewise, the album's first single, 'If I Ever Lose My Faith', is the kind of pop classic Sting manages to write once per album, but here it shimmers even brighter than 'If You Love Someone' or 'All This Time'. But, then maybe they are, and you'll find out more from these songs rather than you would from deliberately autobiographical songs or confessional songs. So that's why we did it. Ten Summoner's Tales: CD: 12: JP 1993-02-28; A&M Records: POCM-1021: 4988005115980: Ten Summoner's Tales: CD: 12: ZA 1993-03-01; A&M Records : STARCD 5979: 6001210647935: Ten Summoner's Tales: CD: 11: CA 1993-03-09; A&M Records: 31454 0070 2: 731454007023: Ten Summoner’s Tales: CD: 12: XE 1993-03-09; GB 1993-03-09; … (OK, so the erudite Sting still is fond of literary references. Ten Summoner's Tales Promotional Interview Disc, '93. Ten summoner's tales (1994) avec Sting comme Contrebassiste Ten summoner's tales (1994) avec Sting comme Harmoniciste Russians. Probably the album's most elaborate musical prank, it burlesques spaghetti westerns, snickers at pop sentimentality and teases the trend toward country - all in just over five minutes. The music starts to an R & B groove as he offers a silky rap, and then he unexpectedly goes into a country twang: "Love is stronger than justice/Love is thicker than blood/Love is stronger than justice/Love is a big fat river in blood. In the oddball 'St. But three of the tracks were recorded live as a 4 piece and either cut directly to tape or recorded live and then the band lip-synched to those new "live" performances. Ten Summoner's Tales was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1993 and for the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1994. This was his first venture as a video album and the release won a Grammy award in 1994 for "Best Long Form Video Of The Year". 'Fields of Gold', for instance, never rises above a mezzo-forte and has a melodic and harmonic simplicity with which Mozart could identify. "Sting wrote some of the greatest songs ever with The Police as well as some great stuff solo. It was all of those factors, and just having a ball. But fun is what Sting's having on his delightful and playful - two adjectives not usually associated with the British singer - new album, 'Ten Summoner's Tales'. "'Lyrics', 10/07On recording the band with a group he had toured with rather than session musicians..."It gives the album a band feel - very close to the feel of the early Police albums. After all, anybody can do catchy; what Sting is interested in is seeing how many jokes, lyrical and musical, he can slip into each song without diminishing its melodic allure. "There is plenty of spring - and provocative music - in Sting's new album. It's a mixed bag of character sketches connected only by the journey it took to complete them, meaning that for the first time in my solo work the songs are simply a record of my labours over a particular period. 'She's Too Good for Me', at 2 1/2 minutes the shortest song, alternates between bitter anger ("She don't like the tales I tell/She don't like the way I smell") and whimsical reflection ("Would she prefer it if I took her to an opera or two").The video version of the album impressed me more than the CD, even though its sonics were inferior. I made the record in the dining room of my 400 year old house in England and we were very happy in that environment and so we filmed the album, and the whole album is on the video - us singing it and performing it, and that's the way I want to present how the album was made - in this lovely environment. In 'Seven Days' a hesitant David prepares to battle the Goliath his girlfriend identifies as his rival; so worshipfully love addled is this "mighty flea" that Sting croons a verse from 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic' as the song fades out. But I guess you could say the therapy worked, because now I have a new sense of freedom, a desire to move on and make songs solely intended as entertainments, designed to amuse. 'If I Ever Lose My Faith In You' is memorably sweet, while the one called 'Fields Of Gold' is warmly, poetically romantic. The album's title, for example, alludes to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, one of the great monuments of the English literary tradition. Indeed, unless you're looking, you may not even notice touches like the Ennio Morricone-ish guitar hook, or the way the beat slips easily from a jazzy 7/4 on the verse to a countrified straight-four on the chorus.Nor are all the jokes here musical. "The second song, 'Love Is Stronger Than Justice', is one of the best of Sting's career. And Saturday night at Pine Knob, when I hear him for the first time in live performance, I hope to know even more. The title is a combined pun of his family name, Sumner, and a character in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the summoner. ''At least this time around, Sting has figured out that maybe we don't really want to. 'Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven)' burlesques spaghetti Westerns, snickers at pop sentimentality and teases the trend toward country. But maybe that's not true, because being whimsical is an essential part of my personality and my own searching. Sting's talent for crafting tuneful pop songs - first showcased with the Police - is well-displayed on this masterful collection that includes such lovely and lovingly crafted songs as 'If I Ever Lose My Faith in You' and 'Fields of Gold'.As is true of Sting's best work, many of the songs tap into his jazz leanings. Accueil > Sting. A live performance of Sting's 1993 studio album Ten Summoners Tales in its entirety at his home estate. "Sunday Times, 3/93"The title is a mild literary joke because my name, Sumner, comes from the medieval name Summoner and a Summoner was someone who summoned you to court or to see the king. So I moved everybody out of the dining room and moved the equipment in, and the band and the instruments, my producer and engineers and we made a record at home in the dining room. Écoutez Ten Summoner's Tales sans limite avec ⇑ Pistes; Téléchargement; Corrections & commentaires; 1993 Ten Summoner's Tales. His output reduced, he was able to take us in directions the rock band never could. Review from The Buffalo News by Anthony ViolantiSting was drowning in angst on his last album, 'Soul Cages'.