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By Torben Schröder
MAINZ – Sting and Shaggy. Pop-rock meets reggae, sharp bad meets party-style gimmickry, English drizzle romance meets Jamaican buoyancy. A mix that makes you curious, maybe even skeptical. And it is very well harmonized during the concert at Mainplatz Volkspark. In fact, you are only 33 years old to return to Stings' first solo album after the release of his band "The Police". The singer has experimented the charismatic creamy between the tenor oscillating voice and falsetto not only with jazz pieces, but also invited with "Love Is the Seventh Wave" to the tonal journey to the powdery sandy beaches of the Caribbean.
In Mainz, the song is transformed into an impressive experience, in the refrain subtly addressed by the Shaggys duet. The, like the variation of the intro piece, "Jamaican" and the "English in New York" offer an evening for the main cinema. Not the hundreds of millions of expensive action blockbusters, but puffy summer comedies, with surfers and girls in bikinis, but no stealth. The sweet rocker "Walking On The Moon" of the police season also releases the vibrations of the South Sea. And when Shaggy roared for the first time his 25 years "Oh Carolina", before Sting suddenly, with the same strokes and the same fanfare, with the discreetly "We'll Be Together" in the parade races, Sting and Shaggy have dubbed their new album together, which has climbed to # 1 in the charts in Germany. The name of the album is composed of the international primaries of Great Britain and Jamaica – the countries of origin of the two singers
Reggae pop nice and well digested
In the spring, the duet records "44/876" published a joint record that climbed to first place in Germany. This has not been possible for both since the beginning of the millennium. The 110-minute concert in Mainz was on the one hand a common best-of-concert, but on the other hand clearly focused on the current record with nine songs. And it offers a comfortable, digestible and wrapped pop reggae stuffed with a subtle mix of e-guitar. The title of the album is much more complex than the music comes. Ambitions related to culture are not lacking, as Shaggy's pathetic speech "Let's be all brothers" and the simple unpretentious in a black backdrop tarnish something of the beating, theatrical stage of a lawsuit (" Crooked Tree ").
But the spark really begins with the clbadics. Shaggy swings through her unique pieces of "Angel" to "Hey Sexy Lady". And Sting pulls as usual a good deal of his figures from the political box. "Every little thing she does is magic", "Message in a Bottle", "So Lonely" and "Every Breath You Take" are all Caribbean, just like the gently oscillating solo songs "Fields of Gold", "If you like Someone", "Shape of My Heart" and the "Desert Rose" decorated in musical hand work instead of the electric steering wheel. Even in the most catchy compositions of Sting, there remains a melodic finesse that collective works hardly reach. And obviously, they do not even want. The cheerful music of summer not to think, there is really worse.
Only the end is difficult in the stomach
A special touch gives the musical menu the appetizers of fusion cuisine. "Roxanne" and "Boombastic", who are in their distinctive vocal style arguably the most fervent rooster sung, merge harmoniously, while Shaggi's verse on Sting's sensitive "Fragile" agitator is like a stone in The belly. But apart from this poorly placed endpoint, a lot of harmony flows through the public park, which is also supported on the other side of the concert area. Sting and Shaggy, that makes you curious. And it's going really well.
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