Pieces Of The Sun

Tony Levin • 12 songs • 1 hr 7 min

Pieces of the Sun is bassist Tony Levin's third solo album. It is an instrumental record blending elements of jazz, progressive rock, experimental, and international music. It featured his touring group of the time, which included keyboardist Larry Fast, guitarist Jesse Gress, and drummer Jerry Marotta. The California Guitar Trio accompanies this quartet on the opening track, "Apollo." In addition to percussion duties, Marotta also plays acoustic guitar, Omnichord and saxophone on the album. The only vocals are the spoken word "Tequila" on "Tequila" and "dog one!," "dog two!", "dog three!" on "Dog One," which is a new recording of a Peter Gabriel composition, which Levin, Marotta and Fast had developed together while in Gabriel's band. "Apollo" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 2003. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieces_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)