Songs from the Labyrinth

Songs from the Labyrinth is the eighth studio album by British singer-songwriter Sting. On this album, he collaborates with Bosnian lutenist Edin Karamazov. The album features music by John Dowland (1563–1626), a lutenist and songwriter. It entered the UK Official Albums Chart at #24 and reached #25 on the Billboard 200, strong charting peaks for a classical record on the pop album charts. The release was a slow seller for a Sting album, his first since 1986's Bring on the Night to fail to break the UK top 10.

Songs from the Labyrinth
Studio album by
Released10 October 2006
GenreClassical, Renaissance music
Length48:27
LabelDeutsche Grammophon
0007220-02
ProducerSting, Edin Karamazov
Sting chronology
Sacred Love
(2003)
Songs from the Labyrinth
(2006)
If on a Winter's Night...
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic
Entertainment WeeklyC+
Now
Rolling Stone

The album was released and re-released in several versions: LP vinyl and CD editions with 23 tracks, a CD/DVD edition with 8 tracks on the CD and a DVD documentary, The Journey and the Labyrinth (released in both "CD size" and "DVD size" packaging), and a CD re-release with 26 tracks (including live versions of Sting's own "Fields of Gold" and "Message in a Bottle", originally recorded with The Police). In late August 2013, a "Dowland Anniversary Edition" was released, which includes 32 tracks on one CD (the full original album, six live versions of album tracks and Sting's non-Dowland live songs), as well as a DVD with the original documentary.

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