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Artist | Jack Bruce
Title | Silver Rails
Genre | Progressive Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 47:31
Label | Esoteric Antenna Store | 2014
Catalog | EANTCD 1028 Rip | 2015
Bitrate | 237 kbps Size | 85.10 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Candlelight 4:20
02. Reach For The Night 6:19
03. Fields Of Forever 4:35
04. Hidden Cities 5:01
05. Don't Look Now 5:06
06. Rusty Lady 5:13
07. Industrial Child 3:40
08. Drone 4:47
09. Keep It Down 4:57
10. No Surrender 3:33
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Although some may be tempted to call multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and
composer Jack Bruce a rock & roll musician, blues and jazz were what this
innovative musician really loved. As a result, those two genres were at the
base of most of the recorded output from a career that went back to the
beginning of London's blues scene in 1962. In that year, he joined Alexis
Korner's Blues Incorporated. Throughout the following decades and into the
21st century, Bruce remained a supreme innovator, pushing himself into
uncharted waters with his jazz and folk-rock compositions.
"Silver Rails" is Jack Bruce's first solo studio album since 2003's fine
"More Jack Than God". Bruce recorded the set at Abbey Road with producer
Rob Cass and collaborated with a dazzling array of musicians. Notably, he
brought back John Medeski and Cindy Blackman Santana from the Spectrum Road
project - a tribute band to the Tony Williams Lifetime - which released its
own album in 2012. He also enlisted son Malcolm Bruce and guest guitarists
including Phil Manzanera, Robin Trower, Bernie Marsden, and Uli Jon Roth.
Bruce wrote songs with longtime collaborators Pete Brown and Kip Hanrahan,
as well as his wife, Margrit Seyffer. The music is quite diverse, making
this album a distant spiritual cousin to 1969's "Songs For A Tailor". There
are some scathing rockers, most notably the rumbling, politically intense
"Drone", illustrated only by distorted bass and drums and samples of a WWII
Stuka. "Reach For The Night" is a sophisticated, multivalent pop song with
R&B and even jazz overtones. The piano-driven rock of "Fields of Forever"
actually recalls the spirit of "Doin' That Scrapyard Thing" from Cream's
"Goodbye" album.
"Rusty Lady" (about the death of Margaret Thatcher - Bruce wasn't a fan) is
a funky blues with Trower's silvery guitar punctuating the mix. The
Caribbean rhythms and horns in "Candlelight" make it a sophisticated
outlier here, Medeski's organ careening around a bubbling bassline,
stuttering drum kit, brass, and Manzanera's dancing single lines and vamps.
The complex melody in "Hidden Cities" walks a line between metal and prog,
while the next cut, "Don't Look Now", commences as a lithe, weary ballad
before gradually cracking itself open and transforming into a midtempo
rocker. Marsden's stinging fills punch through Bruce's bassline in the
strutting modern blues that is "Keep It Down." The set closes with the
thundering rock and roll of "No Surrender," the most raucous tune on the
set. Bruce's voice is a tad grainy, but his pitch and phrasing remain
intact. "Silver Rails" is chancy and engaging, despite some inconsistent
moments, and stands as a bright testament to an exceptional musician who,
for over 50 years, has pushed at the margins of every genre he's taken on.
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