STING/TEN SUMMONERS TALES

Descripción

Limited 180 gram vinyl LP pressing cut at the legendary Abbey Road studios to ensure exceptional audio quality. Ten Summoners Tales is the fourth solo studio album by the English rock musician Sting. The title is a combined pun of his family name Sumner and a character in Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury Tales the summoner. Released in 1993 it explores themes of love and morality in a noticeably upbeat mood compared to his previous release the introspective The Soul Cages released in 1991 after the loss of both his parents in the 1980s. This album contained two US hits If I Ever Lose My Faith in You reached #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Fields of Gold reached #23. Ten Summoners Tales was shortlisted for the 1993 Mercury Prize. In 1994 it was nominated for six Grammy awards winning Best Engineered Album Non-Classical Best Male Pop Vocal Performance (If I Ever Lose My Faith in You) and Best Long Form Music Video.