Label: Air Mail Archive (Japan), AIRAC-1133
Style: Rock, Art Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 56:14
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 358 Mb
Don't make the mistake of dismissing this album as another generic
"rock star cares about the Third World" type toss-off. Manfred Mann
stems from South Africa, and he probably knows and feels the problems of
the native population better than anybody else in the white rock
business. Or maybe not. Of course, then again you could easily say that
this was just another attempt by Mann to sound 'with the times', what
with Peter Gabriel's 'Biko' and Sting's activity and all - it's not as
if you were able to see a lot of direct African references in Mann's
early work.
But whatever be, one fact's for certain: there's nothing like this in Mann's earlier work, and whether it is an honest caring statement or just a sleazy commercial attempt at recapturing some relevance doesn't bother me as long as I finally have something different to write about it. The album I'm reviewing is the American edition, which somewhat diversifies the proceedings by including the band's then-current hit 'Runner' and 'Rebel', with a returning Mick Rogers on vocals. (There's so little information to be found on Manfred Mann albums over the Web I'm not really sure of who takes lead vocals all over the album, and what is Chris Thompson's actual function concerning it). Both songs aren't anything particularly special, though: 'Runner' is a Foreigner-like arena-rocker going nowhere in particular, and 'Rebel' has a funny friendly sax-enhanced ska atmosphere, but little else.
(starling.rinet.ru/music/earth.htm)
But whatever be, one fact's for certain: there's nothing like this in Mann's earlier work, and whether it is an honest caring statement or just a sleazy commercial attempt at recapturing some relevance doesn't bother me as long as I finally have something different to write about it. The album I'm reviewing is the American edition, which somewhat diversifies the proceedings by including the band's then-current hit 'Runner' and 'Rebel', with a returning Mick Rogers on vocals. (There's so little information to be found on Manfred Mann albums over the Web I'm not really sure of who takes lead vocals all over the album, and what is Chris Thompson's actual function concerning it). Both songs aren't anything particularly special, though: 'Runner' is a Foreigner-like arena-rocker going nowhere in particular, and 'Rebel' has a funny friendly sax-enhanced ska atmosphere, but little else.
(starling.rinet.ru/music/earth.htm)
01. Tribal Statistics (04:16)
02. Eyes Of Nostradamus (03:28)
03. Third World Service (05:18)
04. Demolition Man (03:45)
05. Brothers And Sisters Of Azania (02:47)
06. Africa Suite (08:36)
07. Redemption Song (No Kwazulu) (07:36)
08. Somewhere In Africa (01:45)
09. War Dream (03:10)
10. Holiday's Dream (02:40)
11. Redemption Song (Single Version) (04:16)
12. Eyes Of Nostradamus (12' Single Version) (04:44)
13. Demolition Man (Single Version/Alternate Mix) (03:48)
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