Jack Bruce - Silver Rails (2014) {Esoteric EANTCD 1028}
Jack Bruce - Silver Rails (2014) {Esoteric EANTCD 1028}
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© 2014 Cherry Red / Esoteric Antenna | EANTCD 1028
Rock / Blues Rock / Contemporary Rock
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.
Jack Bruce - Silver Rails (2014) {Esoteric EANTCD 1028}
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.
Personnel:
Jack Bruce / bass, vocals
Cindy Blackman Santana / drums
John Medeski / keyboards
with
Phil Manzanera / guitar
Robin Trower / guitar
Bernie Marsden / guitar
Uli Jon Roth / guitar
Malcolm Bruce / guitar
tracklist:
01. Candlelight
02. Reach For The Night
03. Fields Forever
04. Hidden Cities
05. Don't Look Now
06. Rusty Lady
07. Industrial Child
08. Drone
09. Keep It Down
10. No Surrender
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011
EAC extraction logfile from 19. April 2014, 8:04
Jack Bruce / Silver Rails (EANTCD1028)
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EAC extraction logfile from 19. April 2014, 8:04
Jack Bruce / Silver Rails (EANTCD1028)
Used drive : PLEXTOR DVDR PX-860A Adapter: 4 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 96
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : Yes
Command line compressor : G:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -V -8 -T "Date=%year%" -T "Genre=%genre%" %source%
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 4:20.54 | 0 | 19553
2 | 4:20.54 | 6:19.52 | 19554 | 48030
3 | 10:40.31 | 4:35.23 | 48031 | 68678
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5 | 20:16.74 | 5:06.04 | 91274 | 114227
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7 | 30:36.33 | 3:40.36 | 137733 | 154268
8 | 34:16.69 | 4:47.32 | 154269 | 175825
9 | 39:04.26 | 4:57.07 | 175826 | 198107
10 | 44:01.33 | 3:33.39 | 198108 | 214121
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Filename D:\MUSIC\Jack Bruce - Silver Rails (EANTCD1028).wav
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Jack Bruce - Silver Rails (2014) {Esoteric EANTCD 1028}
Jack Bruce - Silver Rails (2014) {Esoteric EANTCD 1028}
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