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Shadowy Narcissus: The Police - Secret Journey Homage to my favorite band, The Police. All musical noises by The Police:
"Secret (More) Homage to my favorite band, The Police. All musical noises by The Police:
"Secret Journey" (Sting), from 1981's Ghost In The Machine, by The Police, and "Deathwish" (Sting), from 1979's Reggatta de Blanc, also by The Police.
I would love to write a book about this band, because I've read quite a lot about them, and they are my greatest musical passion since I first bought their second lp without having ever heard them, just by instinct. Sting is my idol. As the late critic - not the likewise missed singer - Robert Palmer said in the NY Times, Sting is like John Lennon and Paul McCartney in one person. But I also adore Andy Summers and Police founder Stewart Copeland. Andy is a mystical painter on the guitar and Stewart is an elegant force of nature on the drums.
Of course, brilliant musicians need songs, great songs. The Police have many masterpieces and a myriad of shiny moments in unsuspected tracks.
The Police is such a brilliant band. Here, for example, at the hypnotic denouement of "Deathwish" (6:22 to 7:08), Andy Summers replicates Bo Diddley with some playfully climaxing guitar flourishes that, slightly slowed-down, could be imagined as played by violins in a thrilling Classical orchestra performance. Try it, if you wish. Of course, behind him, Sting plays very strong and supple bass and Stewart, the best cymbal player I know, does wonders. And let's not forget the mysterious, urgent, sexy, tormented, angelic and devilish voice!
1. San Finx mine mouth in Lousame
2. Discovered a stone face on the right (0:52 - 0:58)
3. Sting, on a field in Scotland
4. Children on a log (Getty Images)CuerpoMente magazine
5. Early shot of The Police
6. Sting, amazed in Bombay
7. San Finx abandoned house of invisible mirrors
8. Couple on the beach (Masterfile)CuerpoMente magazine
9. Shadowy Narcissus entering San Finx cave mouth
10. Police flying on stage
11. Sting with beautiful fretless bass
12. J. W. Waterhouse: Narcissus (1903)
13. Salvador Dalí: Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937)
There are allusions here to Plato's myth of the cavern - a subject dear to José Saramago - and the world of shadows outside, and also to Narcissus. Very conveniently, I found by chance when making this video that Dalí painted a cave by his pony-tailed Narcissus.
I was deeply struck five days ago by the nearby San Finx caves in Lousame, near Noia in Galiza, NW Spain. Though I only saw a small part of the abandoned facilities, the Schindler-like machinery and the casual terror that the dark hole entrance inspires caused a strange new feeling in my soul. I admire miners very much.
* This video is dedicated to The Police (there are more to come) and to miners all over the world. I remember a miner from Asturias/Asturies called Gerardo Iglesias.
* Stewart, Sting and Andy: if by the rarest of fortunes you happen to read this, know that I love you with heart and soul, and I'm grateful for having grown with you three guys, by way of your songs, since I first saw the beautiful Reggatta cover at Hudson Mall in Harrison, New Jersey, in 1979.
Thanx for watching. (Less)
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