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Article: Sting finds inspiration in Elizabethan composer.
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- The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2006
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Byline: Jeff Miers
Oct. 17--Sting's begging for it. An album of songs from Elizabethan composer John Dowland, performed solely by voice and lute? Is this supposed to deflate the man's image as pompous and self-important?
For many, "Songs From the Labyrinth" will appear as Sting's "Spinal Tap" moment, his own personal rendition of that fictional band's lowering of a Stonehenge model onto their concert stage. This all makes great fodder for jokes at the expense of the artist formerly known as Gordon Sumner. "Fetch me a fair wench and a flagon of mead!" and all of that.
But any even semi-scholarly approach to this album reveals it to be full of ...