The Seven Deadly Sins have been always a tempting topic for any artist, will them be painters, writers or musicians; the last in giving his peculiar vision of the theme has been the British musician Joe Jackson. Though emerged in the seventies through the English pop expansion, Jackson always demonstrated a peculiar attraction towards the classical world and the jazz, what carried his music to a constant evolution throughout the years, breaking the barriers of the popular pop-rock, arriving even to the film music -Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) or Three of Hearts (1993), just to mention a couple of them-. This eclectic evolution has its logic continuation in this his new work, Heaven & Hell, one which have collaborated different artists from, also, different musical worlds: the soprano Dawn Upshaw, the violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and the pop-rock Suzanne Vega, Joy Askew, Jane Siberry and Brad Roberts. Preceded by a Prelude of lacerate start, the seven movements (one by each deadly sin) use very assorted styles, with interesting vocal and instrumental games, oscillating between the new-age tone of Tuzla: Avarice, the pop with Gothic echoes of Angel: Lust, and the aggressive rock of Right: Anger; a special mention to the baroque musical structures (Passacaglia and Fugue) that overfly the score from its beginning, and whose bottom line will be able to interest more or less, but it will not let indifferent.Outline, also, the inclusion of interactive material (compatible with any common multimedia computer), with commentaries and ideas of the own composer about his work, as well as a stupendous visual design; an activity increasingly used by the creators of the moment, since facilitates a better approximation between the author and the listener, permitting the expansion of concepts and suggestions.
