PASSENGERS - ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACKS 1 -(BONO,B. ENO.) CD À CHARTRES

Titres 1. United Colors 2. Slug 3. Your Blue Room 4. Always Forever Now 5. Different Kind of Blue, A 6. Beach Sequence 7. Miss Sarajevo 8. Ito Okashi 9. One Minute Warning 10. Corpse (These Chains Are Way Too Long) 11. Elvis Ate America 12. Plot 180 13. Theme from the Swan 14. Theme from Let's Go Native   BOITIER  CRISTAL..... il y a quelques petites traces de frottements sur le boitier Album Notes Passengers: Bono (vocals, guitar, piano); The Edge (guitar, vocals, organ); Adam Clayton (bass, spoken vocals); Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums, percussion, programming, synthesizer); Brian Eno (programming, synthesizer, vocals). Additional personnel: Howie B. (vocals, scratches); Luciano Pavarotti, Holi (vocals); David Herbert (saxophone); Holger Zschenderlein (synthesizer); Des Broadbery (programming). Recorded at Westside Studios, London, England and Hanover, Dublin, Ireland in November 1994. Includes liner notes by Ben O'Rian and C.S.J. Bofop. Personnel: Bono (vocals, guitar, piano); The Edge (vocals, guitar, organ); Brian Eno (vocals, synthesizer); Howie B (vocals, scratches); Luciano Pavarotti (tenor); David Herbert (saxophone); Larry Mullen, Jr. (synthesizer, drums, percussion); Holger Zschenderlein (synthesizer). Audio Mixers: Howie B; Brian Eno. Recording information: Hanover, Dublin, Ireland; Westside Studios, London, England. Unknown Contributor Roles: Rob Crane; Larry Mullen, Jr.; Richard Baker. Arrangers: Paul Barrett; Craig Armstrong. Following their post-modern vibe further into Brian Eno's futuristic sound-space, U2 have now floated so far out of their customary atmosphere they've even abandoned their moniker. And with good reason. ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACKS 1, a loose collection of compositions written for films which may or may not exist, resembles a U2 album in only the vaguest of ways--it is basically a Brian Eno concoction, with Ireland's finest contributing not much more than their distinctive instrumental feel and Bono's new-found subtlety around a vocal mic. Yet these characteristics are enough to identify the participants, and to raise Passengers above the standard electronic/ambient din that has taken over clubland in the 1990s. ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACKS 1 is not strictly an experimental excursion. While much of the album follows the atmospheric norm of Eno's own Soundtracks series (after which this project was named), there are a number of traditional "songs" interspersed between the synthetic canvases, and most of these are softer extensions on the ZOOROPA aesthetic. "Slug" finds Bono whispering wishes over tension-filled keyboard washes and layers of rhythm. "Your Blue Room," a relaxed kin to "One" and "The Unforgettable Fire," is U2 playing Tindersticks--full of menacing organ, faint, Duane Eddy-like guitar, and starring Larry Mullen, Jr. as a Euro Funky Drummer. Finest among these surreal moves is "Miss Sarajevo," which uses Luciano Pavarotti's tenor as a voice of empowered grief in the melancholy story of a war-torn beauty contest. When ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACKS 1 moves outward, it flies in the direction of the nearest rave--adding world-wide rhythms to Eno's ambient soundscapes, to form a compass of emotions. "United Colours" is a straight-up techno track with passing samples of scratched records, fly-by vehicles and looped voices. "One Minute Warning" is an eerie alarm, complete with African and electronic beats, a machine-gun ticker-tape pulse, and an incomprehensible Eno-led choir seemingly ushering in the apocalypse. The album ends with a mixture of the two explored worlds: "Theme From Let's Go Native" is a bit of tribal rockisms, led by a stray dub bassline and Edge's simple chords. As Bono repeats a wordless vocal phrase and the band gains a forceful rhythmic confidence around him, it becomes obvious that what started out as foreign turf for these Passengers, has become a musical home away from home.     REGROUPER LES ACHATS (cela réduit les frais de poste)