Tony Levin, Pieces of the Sun - 1h 7m 30s

Tracks & Durations

1. Apollo	6:49
2. Geronimo	3:11
3. Aquafin	5:12
4. Dog One	5:12
5. Tequila	5:18
6. Pieces of the Sun	7:17
7. Phobos	7:08
8. Ooze	4:15
9. Blue Nude Reclining	3:10
10. Ever the Sun Will Rise	9:05
11. The Fifth Man	6:15
12. Silhouette	4:30

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Review

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

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Pieces of the Sun

Tracks: 12, Disk length: 1h 7m 22s (-1m 52s)

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