Platinumpty
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Posted: Feb. 22 2021, 09:26 |
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I'm listening to it right now and finding I may have underrated. There are some lovely, understated piano passages and I actually like the squawking insanity of Mike plus Simon Phillips plus Courtney Pine. It's the only time Mike really wandered anywhere in the direction of jazz.
As a fan of John Zorn and music concrete (now and again) I actually think it has a surprising amount of structure and texture. Even the iffy hard rock sections are pushed so far they seem deliberately parodic.
I picture a man losing his mind on the balcony of a hotel in Quito, looking out over the Ecuadorian rainforest whilst hiding some sort of high-tech MacGuffin that's ultimately going to get him killed. But that's what happens when you allow a screenwriter to take charge of the stereo.
The track is definitely way better than anything on the flipside (bar the album version of the title track, perhaps).
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