Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Stewart Copeland
Artist: Stewart Copeland
Genre(s):
Soundtrack
Jazz
Other
Discography:
The Rhythmatist
Year: 2007
Tracks: 9
Orchestralli
Year: 2004
Tracks: 8
Silent Fall
Year: 1995
Tracks: 16
Wall Street: Also Includes Talk Radio
Year: 1993
Tracks: 12
Rumble Fish
Year: 1992
Tracks: 13
Stewart Copeland-Animal Logic I
Year:
Tracks: 11
After insurrection to international stardom with the Law, Jimmy Stewart Copeland largely rejected his pop music past to go afterward a career as a composer, authoring a fertile series of celluloid wads, operas, and ballets. Max Born July 16, 1952 in El Iskandriyah, Egyptian Empire, Copeland -- the boy of a CIA federal agent -- dog-tired his formative eld in the Middle Eastward but attended college in CA ahead settling in England in 1975 and playing drums with the social reformer john Rock confect unit Curved Air. Pursuit the group's disintegration, he founded the Police with singer/bassist Sting and guitar player Henri Padovani (the latter soon replaced by Andy Summers). Beginning with their numeral one impinge on, 1979's "Roxanne," the triplet emerged as unitary of the most popular and innovative bands of the post-punk geological era, drawing upon reggae, funk, and populace music to produce a unambiguously infectious so far cerebral brand of pop which generated a serial of smash singles including "Every Little Thing She Does Is Legerdemain," "Every Intimation You Take," and "Business leader of Pain in the ass." While with the Law, Copeland -- wHO in 1980 issued a solo disc koran, Euphony Madness from the Kinetic Kid, under the assumed list Klark Kent -- non just earned astray critical herald for his intricate, rough-textured drumwork, but he contributed many of the group's songs as advantageously. At the elevation of their commercial message succeeder, the Police disbanded subsequently touring in supporting of the 1983 blockbuster Synchronism; by that time Copeland was already established as a film composer, however, earning a Golden Globe nomination for his score to Francis Ford Coppola's Rumbling Pisces. In 1985 he released The Rhythmatist, the product of his melodic pilgrim's journey to Africa, followed by an ever-increasing numeral of celluloid scads including a twin of King Oliver Lucy Stone features, Wall Street and Speak Radio, in improver to acclaimed projects like Cognizance Loach's Raining Stones, Tetrad Years in September and Gum benjamin West Bayrut as nearly as many more mainstream Hollywood productions. Copeland's early mold includes a stretch with the pop-fusion trio Fauna Logic as intimately as authoring the San Francisco Ballet's King Lear, the Cleveland Opera's Holy place Rake and Crescent Moon, and Ballet Oklahoma's Fair game.
In 2001, it was announced that Copeland would be touring with former Doors members Shaft of light Manzarek and Robby Krieger and the Cult's Ian Astbury as the Doors of the twenty-first Century. Copeland by and by sued the group for breach of cut, claiming they reneged on a promise to manipulation him on go and in the studio, but the suit was amicably settled with Manzarek and Copeland trading variety words in the crusade. Next was soundtrack exercise for the Showtime series Dead Like Me and a edgar Invitee show on guitarist Rusty Anderson's Undressing Underwater. In 2002 he played a short hitch in Italy with the percussion four-spot Ensemble Do and a small orchestra. The go was attested on the CD/DVD parcel Orchestralli, released by the Ponderosa label in 2005.