Circa Zero (Andy Summers & Rob Giles) - Circus Hero (2014) {429 Records}
Circa Zero (Andy Summers & Rob Giles) - Circus Hero (2014) {429 Records}
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© 2014 429 Records | FTN 17981
Rock / Contemporary Rock / Alternative
Former Police guitarist Andy Summers is no stranger to collaborations, and has paired himself with a bevy of intriguing artists (Robert Fripp, Bill Evans, Fernanda Takai) over the course of his 12 studio albums. Jazz, fusion, avant-garde, and tropicalia have all been explored by this prolific guitar hero, but the one thing he hasn't done since the Police's 1986 breakup is form a legitimate rock band. Working with Rob Giles of L.A. super-songwriter combo the Rescues in what turned out to be a full-on band project, Summers revisits the punchy pop/rock style that made the Police one of the biggest and most influential acts of the 1980s.
Circa Zero (Andy Summers & Rob Giles) - Circus Hero (2014) {429 Records}
Perhaps inspired by the Police's 2007 reunion tour, he recruited Giles after hearing him at a 2013 Rescues gig and the two began writing songs together in Summers' Venice, California studio. The result is a punchy, tight, and melodic rock album with strong vocals from Giles (who also handled the bass and drums) containing some of Summers' most memorable and straightforwardly hooky guitar playing in years. That Circa Zero slightly resemble the Police at times is no surprise. In interviews they haven't shied away from that influence and even Giles' vocal style and timbre echo that of Sting's on a few of the album's 13 songs. But it's nice to hear this kind of articulate and progressive power pop being played in a musical landscape otherwise littered with large chamber folk ensembles and over-processed electro-pop acts. Songs like "Levitation" and "The Story Ends Here" are finely crafted pop tunes with big soaring choruses and nice lean arrangements. "Gamma Ray" and "Summer Lies" lean a little too hard on mid-'80s power trio pseudo-balladry, and some of the album's later cuts like "No Highway" and "Light the Fuse & Run," for all their rock muscle, sound a bit like well-meant but slightly uninspired prog pop. Still, taken as a whole, Circa Zero do the trick of pairing Andy Summers with an able singer/songwriter partner in a rock trio setting he hasn't visited in quite a while. The results are encouraging and ultimately listenable.
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Personnel:
Andy Summers - guitar
Rob Giles - bass, drums, vocals
tracklist:
01. Levitation
02. Underground
03. The Story Ends Here
04. Say Goodnight
05. Gamma Ray
06. Night Time Travelers
07. Shoot Out The Stars
08. Underwater
09. Summer Lies
10. No Highway
11. Light The Fuse & Run
12. Whenever You Hear The Rain
13. Hot Camel
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011
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Circa Zero / Circus Hero
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EAC extraction logfile from 15. May 2014, 17:07
Circa Zero / Circus Hero
Used drive : Optiarc DVD+-RW AD-7717H Adapter: 0 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 48
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 : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\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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2 | 4:00.28 | 3:53.65 | 18028 | 35567
3 | 7:54.18 | 3:37.19 | 35568 | 51861
4 | 11:31.37 | 4:28.34 | 51862 | 71995
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6 | 22:12.21 | 6:19.26 | 99921 | 128371
7 | 28:31.47 | 4:33.13 | 128372 | 148859
8 | 33:04.60 | 4:25.35 | 148860 | 168769
9 | 37:30.20 | 4:30.25 | 168770 | 189044
10 | 42:00.45 | 5:50.69 | 189045 | 215363
11 | 47:51.39 | 3:58.52 | 215364 | 233265
12 | 51:50.16 | 6:05.17 | 233266 | 260657
13 | 57:55.33 | 2:44.64 | 260658 | 273021
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==== Log checksum 633BBDEFE576FD7DAB9A2AE50249F0AE5CF2BCD2E528DA4817F2B3464D73D6EA ====
Circa Zero (Andy Summers & Rob Giles) - Circus Hero (2014) {429 Records}
Circa Zero (Andy Summers & Rob Giles) - Circus Hero (2014) {429 Records}
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