Eberhard Schoener / Octogon
Not only the minor pieces but also the side projects are the prerogative of the capiscione. Especially if he can boast of having the original copy - we're talking about vinyl, strictly. Also because these are often records that were never reissued on CD. 'Video-Magic,' in any case, is an album that would escape even the most obsessive completists of Sting and The Police. We’re in the summer of '78, 'Roxanne' has just debuted as a single, and 'Outlandos d'Amour' is about to be released. Andy Summers involves the Pungiglione in the new project of composer and conductor Eberhard Schoener, whom he met in Munich during his collaboration with Jon Lord. This is an ambitious hypothesis of "music for the TV of the future." Schoener certainly knows a thing or two about TV. And not only because he is responsible for some (electronic) themes of the police inspector Derrick. In Germany, he is an institution. The album (played by Schoener + The Police without Copeland, perhaps busy and replaced by a German session man) is so ambitious that it might be indigestible. And above all, it has nothing to do with the style of The Police. Endless synth patterns, vocal improvisations by Sting, an orchestra in a vaguely Alan Parsons style, atmospheres that are not easily decipherable. The solos by Andy, on the other hand, are indisputable. He didn’t just happen to pass through Soft Machine by chance. As for Schoener, I would also recommend his incursions into the field of Balinese gamelan. In particular, the album 'Bali-Agung' from 1976 - although I would decidedly advise against listening to it for those who have not digested 'Video-Magic.' Which I do not possess in the original copy but in the still valuable Italian reissue Energy/CGD. And I wanted to make that clear.
Not only the minor pieces but also the side projects are the prerogative of the capiscione. Especially if he can boast of having the original copy - we're talking about vinyl, strictly. Also because these are often records that were never reissued on CD. 'Video-Magic,' in any case, is an album that would escape even the most obsessive completists of Sting and The Police. We’re in the summer of '78, 'Roxanne' has just debuted as a single, and 'Outlandos d'Amour' is about to be released. Andy Summers involves the Pungiglione in the new project of composer and conductor Eberhard Schoener, whom he met in Munich during his collaboration with Jon Lord. This is an ambitious hypothesis of "music for the TV of the future." Schoener certainly knows a thing or two about TV. And not only because he is responsible for some (electronic) themes of the police inspector Derrick. In Germany, he is an institution. The album (played by Schoener + The Police without Copeland, perhaps busy and replaced by a German session man) is so ambitious that it might be indigestible. And above all, it has nothing to do with the style of The Police. Endless synth patterns, vocal improvisations by Sting, an orchestra in a vaguely Alan Parsons style, atmospheres that are not easily decipherable. The solos by Andy, on the other hand, are indisputable. He didn’t just happen to pass through Soft Machine by chance. As for Schoener, I would also recommend his incursions into the field of Balinese gamelan. In particular, the album 'Bali-Agung' from 1976 - although I would decidedly advise against listening to it for those who have not digested 'Video-Magic.' Which I do not possess in the original copy but in the still valuable Italian reissue Energy/CGD. And I wanted to make that clear.
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