★★★★★
With the breakup of the Police, the bandmembers found themselves free to indulge their personal musical obsessions. And so while Sting made a very lucrative venture into working with jazz musicians -- a logical step for a bassist -- Stewart Copeland made a drummer's pilgrimage to Africa. Combining field recordings with Copeland's multi-instrumental work in an Assyrian studio, The Rhythmatist is light years ahead of his sophomorically amiable work as Klark Kent...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
During the 40-minute documentary included on the packed-in DVD in his Orchestralli release, former Police drummer Stewart Copeland declares his love for Buddy Rich. He also mentions the music Rich plays is "not necessarily my kind of music." What he says he loves about Rich is the man's "effervescence" more than the compositions he plays. Later he talks about how music is "instinct," "best when it comes from the heart rather than the brain," and "is how it feels...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Even prior to the breakup of the Police, drummer Stewart Copeland carved out an extremely successful career as screen composer and producer. This project finds Copeland once again stretching his musical capabilities. Aside from his percussion and piano-laden sketches, all of the tracks feature renowned jazz bass player Stanley Clarke, who underpins all of the tracks with a combination of grace and funk...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Stewart Copeland's score for Bruno Barreto's cinematic adaptation of Fernando Gaberia's book Four Days in September doesn't suffer when it is isolated from the film. On its own, it's an evocative mixture of percussion and keyboards, balanced between the symphonic and Brazilian culture. The soundtrack is augmented by Alan Price's "The House of the Rising Sun," Tom Jobim's "The Girl from Ipanema" and Chico Buarque de Holanda's "Madalena Foi Por Mar."
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Like the film this music was written for, Stewart Copeland's soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish is no masterpiece, but it is an absorbing effort, nonetheless. All but one of the thirteen selections are instrumentals, yet the approach is hardly that of background music; instead, Copeland has created a series of musical characterizations that establish a solid sense of place, time and character...
- www.rollingstone.com
2008-08-07
★★★★★
Like the film this music was written for, Stewart Copeland's soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish is no masterpiece, but it is an absorbing effort, nonetheless. All but one of the thirteen selections are instrumentals, yet the approach is hardly that of background music; instead, Copeland has created a series of musical characterizations that establish a solid sense of place, time and character...
- www.rollingstone.com
2008-07-30
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